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Much help of this kind has already been most generously- 

 accorded by Messrs. 0. W. Hope, A. E. Lowrie, and several 

 other gentlemen. With the aid of such contributions from 

 the wide experience of every one interested in Forestry it 

 will be possible ultimately to prepare a complete Manual 

 on the Utilization of our Indian Forests. 



A work of this kind can of course never be an entirely 

 original one. In the present instance, Karl Gayer's classic 

 Forstbenutzung has furnished the general plan of the book, 

 and also no inconsiderable portion of the subject-matter, 

 and much valuable aid has been derived from several of 

 Spons' encyclopaedic publications, from Boppe's admir- 

 able Technologie Forestiere, from Brandis' unrivalled Forest 

 Flora of North-West and Central India, from Gamble's 

 compendious Manual of Indian Timbers, from various 

 published official papers, and last, though not least, from 

 that treasury of forest lore, the pages of the Indian 

 Forester. 



E. E. FERNANDEZ. 

 FoEEST School, Dehba Dun, "I 

 1st March, 1891. f 



