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part, did not know where to turn for instruction. 

 Much of the mischievous tendency of past opera- 

 tions they were able to repress or restrain ; but 

 the Forest Department was naturally regarded as 

 a revenue department, and, in the effort to achieve 

 satisfactory financial results, the prevailing causes 

 of mischief were often perpetuated, although within 

 narrower limits. 



Fortunately there soon came to the front a 

 man who grafted on the experience gained in 

 this country a knowledge of scientific forestry 

 as understood in Europe, and who, from his 

 position as Inspector-General of Forests, has been 

 enabled to permeate the Department with correct 

 views of the ends and aims of forest administration. 

 (I refer, of course, to Dr Brandis.) He has, more- 

 over, provided for filling up the ranks with 

 specially-trained men, whose experience, gained 

 in the executive grades, and grafted on those 

 broad principles acquired in the schools of France 

 and Germany, will in time fit them for dealing 

 with those weighty problems in the administra- 

 tion of Indian forests which for the present sorely 

 vex us. 



To these men, trained in the schools of France 

 and Germany, the forest literature of those 

 countries is accessible ; but, in the advanced state 

 of the science in those countries, the literature 



