THE WORK OP THE FOREST DEPARTMENT IN INDIA. 19 



years 1910-11 to 1914-15 is given in the following statement :— 



-Forest produce removed from State forests, average per annum for the 

 period 1910-1911 to 1914-1915. 



Much information regarding Indian timbers will be found 



in Gamble's Manual of Indian Timbers (1902) and in Troup's 



Indian Woods and their Uses (Indian Forest Eecords, Economic 



Products Series, Volume I, Part I, 1909), while information on 



■the more important timbers and minor forest products will be 



found in Troup's Indian Forest Utilization (2nd Ed., 1913) and 



Pearson's Commercial Guide to the Forest Economic Products 



•of India (1912). The following is a necessarily brief account 



^of some of the more important major and minor forest products 



•of India : — 



(1) Major produce : principal timber trees. 

 A large proportion of the many species of Indian trees have 

 little or no value at present, partly because they are imperfectly 

 known, partly because they are so rare as to be of no consequence 

 economically and partly because they are wanting in durability, 

 rstrength or other necessary properties. Still there are several 

 liundred species of Indian trees the timber of which is used for 

 some purpose or other. A few of the most important of these 



