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manners, and customs, of a people he was to be 
brought into intimate contact with during the 
whole of his service. 
The Committee I travelled to London to attend, 
as the member representing the views of the 
Government of India, comprised gentlemen whose 
names afforded assurance that the subject of forestry 
education would be most thoroughly dealt with ; 
they were Sir John Edge, Sir William Thiselton- 
Dyer, Mr. (now Sir Stafford) Howard, with Mr. 
Munro-Ferguson as President, and a unanimous 
report was drawn up after the examination of many 
witnesses. But as that report has not yet been 
published, the views of the Government of India 
and of the Committee appointed by the Secretary 
of State—interesting as they would be to all who 
have the progress of forestry at heart—are not 
available to the public, and inquirers must draw 
their own inferences from a comparison of the 
Regulations for Indian Forest Probationers issued 
for the year before, and for the years following, the 
sitting of the Committee, and also from the increase 
in the number of candidates who now appear before 
the Selection Board for Forest Probationers that 
sits yearly at the India Office. There were, it is 
said, seventy-six candidates for twelve vacancies on 
the last occasion, so that the efforts to insure a 
larger selection from amongst the youth of England 
who desire to take up forestry as their life’s work 
have not been unavailing. 
I returned to Simla in May, 1908, and was en- 
gaged in labours similar to those I have endeavoured 
to describe in previous pages until November 9, 
