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also offered a premium on all that contributed to 

 increased traffic. When at last it was noticed 

 that the demands of timber for public works in 

 some localities could no longer be supplied without 

 costly transportation, the matter received the tardy 

 public attention. 



The present effective organization of a forest 

 department and forestry service, covering now a 

 forest property of nearly 100,000 square miles, 

 was estabUshed under the guidance of German 

 thought and German methods, and for nearly half 

 a century the heads of the state forest department 

 were German foresters.^ 



Although the conditions surrounding the prob- 

 lems of the Indian forest department are quite dis- 

 similar from those with which we have to deal in 

 our country, it will nevertheless be of interest, and 

 suggestive for our own efforts in establishing for- 

 estry practice, to give some space to a brief account 

 of what has been established in India. 



In 1859, Dr. (now Sir) Dietrich Brandis was 

 appointed superintendent of forests for Pegu; in 

 1862 he was charged with the duty of organiz- 

 ing a forest department for all India, and in 1865 

 he was appointed the first inspector-general for 

 the forests of India under the first Indian Forest 

 Act. During the forty years of its existence this 

 department has steadily and rapidly grown in the 



1 Refer to the excellent account of this movement in B. Ribben- 

 trop, "Forestry in British India," Calcutta, 1900, 245 pp., 8vo. 



