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The writer desires to acknowledge the aid he has derived 

 from the work on Amenagement, recently published by 

 Monsieur Puton, Directeur de Vtcole nationale forestiere 

 in Trance. He is also indebted to the courtesy of Monsieur 

 Bartet, Inspecteur des forSts, in charge of the station de 

 recherches at the Nancy Forest School, for copies of several 

 working-plans in force in France. These plans, as well as 

 several of the plans compiled by officers in India, have been 

 largely utilised; as have also Mr. Fernandez's translation of 

 Monsieur Broillard's Jmenagement, and an excellent Short 

 Treatise on the Measurement of Timber Crops which ap- 

 peared in the Forester in 1889. 



W. E. D'ARCY. 



February 1891. 



PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 

 These notes, which were written by the author when 

 Assistant Inspector Genera] of Forests and Superintendent 

 of Working-plans, were professedly intended primarily for 

 nse by subordinate Forest Officers, and have in practice 

 amply fulfilled the object for which they were compiled. It 

 may, indeed, be confidently stated that no professional work 

 of the kind has had in India such widespread and beneficial 

 results in systematising forest organisation. The scope of 

 the book precluded the discussion of certain higher branches 

 of forest science well known in Europe.* Moreover, in pre- 

 sent circumstances in India, simplicity is of the first import- 



* Those who wish to pursue the subieot in all its branches may be referred to the 

 Manual of Forestry by W, Sohlich, Ph. D,, Bradbury Agnew & Co., London. 



