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as in the East a misconception of the aims and objects 
of the Government is the most potent cause of 
discontent, and is, moreover, the weapon that lies 
easiest to the hand of professional agitators, each 
such subordinate Forest Officer when instructed in 
the rudiments of his profession might be of great 
assistance in imparting to an ignorant population 
the true reasons for the practice of State forestry. 
Finally, there could be no professional progress 
without a systematic record of results of investiga- 
tions, and these investigations themselves could not 
be successful unless conducted by men who were 
given leisure from routine work, and time to increase 
their knowledge by special study and experiment. 
Such were some of the considerations that led to 
the creation of a Forest Research Institute, with a 
separate staff of selected officers; to raising the 
Forest School to the status of a college; to inaugu- 
rating elementary forest schools in each Province ; 
and to providing education and opportunities for 
early entry into the Provincial Service for young 
men of a suitable social standing. 
It was objected, at the time when these proposals 
were first made, that the Forest Department could 
comprise no officers who were competent to specialize 
in botany, zoology, chemistry, and economies, and 
that it would be necessary to procure professors from 
England in these subjects; but we required these 
sciences in their application to Indian forestry, and 
none would serve our purpose save those who had 
a practical knowledge of that branch of their pro- 
fession. And so opportunity was given to men like 
Messrs. Haines, Stebbing, Hole, and Troup, to prove 
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