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" Guided by these considerations I have ventured, 

 nvith the full approval of the author, to attempt a trans- 

 lation of M. Ch. Broilliard's recently published work en- 

 titled " Cours d'Ame-nagement." This work is designed 

 to supply a textbook for the students attending the 

 course of Lectures on Forest Organisation and Working 

 at the Forest School at Nancy in France. It is not meant 

 to take the place of the lectures, but only to furnish a 

 convenient skeleton or summary, which the Lectures fill 

 ■up, expand and illustrate. Th« summary is, however, so 

 perspicuously written and so w«ll connected together in 

 all its parts, that it is perfectly intelligible by itself and 

 gives a clear and sufficiently complete idea of Forest 

 '-Organisation as it is understood and practised in France.', 



I Tiad intended to append to the translation a short 

 account of the state and progress of Forest Organisation 

 in India and an essay on the application of general prin- 

 ciples to the peculiar circumstances of this country. My 

 present post of Instructor of Forestry at the Imperial 

 Forest School, Dehra Dun, will necessitate my shortly 

 bringing out a special treatise on those subjects, and 

 hence anything I could add thereon to this book would 

 be purely a work of supererogation. 



I also then proposed, in the event of sufficient leisure, 

 to write a summary description of the principal methods 

 of Forest Organisation at present in vogue in Germany ; 

 but the appearance,, during the interval that has elapsed, 

 of Mr. Laird-MacGregor's work has rendered that 

 superfluous. 



During this interval we have also had in the Indian 

 Forester, from the pen of Mr. Fisher, a translation of 

 M. Teuton's brochure on Forest Organisation, which is 

 conceived in a different spirit from M. Broilliard's work 



