ii INTRODUCTION. 



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 haveTilso Mr. Fernandez's translation of 

 Monsieur Broillard's AmSnagement, and an excellent Short 

 Treatise on the Measurement of Timber Crops which 

 appeared in the Forester in 1889. 



W. E. D'AKCY. 

 February 1891. 



PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



These notes, which were written by the author when 

 Assistant Inspector General o£ Forests and Superintendent 

 of Working-Plans, were professedly intended primarily for 

 use 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 organization. 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- 

 ance in the preparation of plans for forests which are only 

 now being brought unJer 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. 



* Tboae who wiih to pnnua the Bubjeot in all it« branches mty be referred to the 

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



