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ance in the preparation of plans for forests which are only 

 now heing brought under systematic working ; and accord- 

 ingly in these notes theoretical considerations, which might 

 in practice defeat that object, have either been omitted or 

 been assigned a place altogether subordinate to that occupied 

 by a brief exposition of such principles and methods of 

 working as are more immediately applicable in this country. 



The book is in much request, and the opportunity has 

 been taken, in preparing the present edition, to revise the 

 whole, leaving the substance as far as possible unaltered. 



The suggestions contained in the work are, however, 

 merely intended as an aid in the preparation of working- 

 plans and are not issued as a code of official instructions. 



Office of Inspectoe Geneeal op Foeests, 



Simla ; 



August 1895. 



