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ment of the department. The latter joined at once in India, and 

 the students were sent, half to Germany and the other half to 

 France, for instruction in forestry. Subsequently, in 1875, the 

 English forestry students were concentrated at Nancy. Ten 

 years later, in 1885, matters were considered ripe for starting a 

 school of forestry in England in connection with the Coopers Hill 

 Engineering College. The task was entrusted to the author of 

 this book, who organised and presided over this, the first School 

 of Forestry in the United Kingdom, during 20 years. When 

 Coopers Hill College was closed, the forest branch was, in 1905, 

 transferred to the University of Oxford, of which it has been a 

 branch until the present time. The number of Indian Forest 

 officers educated under these arrangements up to 1914 was as 

 follows : — 



Educated in France ... 72 

 Educated in Germany ... 25 

 Educated at Coopers Hill . . 153 



Educated at Oxford ... 95 



Total . . . .345 



Of the officers trained on the Continent, only 3 remained at the 

 end of 1914, and 4 were trained at Cambridge. Hence, out of an 

 Imperial Stafi of 230 in 1914 as many as 223 were educated by the 

 author of this book. 



In consequence of action on the part of the Universities of 

 Cambridge and Edinburgh, the Secretary of State for India, 

 in 1911, threw open the education of the probationers for the 

 Indian Forest Service to any British University which satisfied 

 him as having a course of instruction in forestry of a standard 

 sufficient for the requirements of the Indian Government. Since 

 then 7 officers from Cambridge and 5 from Edinburgh had joined 

 by the end of 1919. 



Owing to the war practically no recruiting took place between 

 1914 and 1918. Since then about 80 demobilised Officers have 

 been appointed Probationers for the Indian Imperial Forest 

 Service. Of these some are now on their way to India. 



Owing to the great changes lately introduced into the system 

 of Indian Government, the method of training the future members 



