BOMBAY 307 
who has made a reputation, whose judgment can be 
depended upon in an emergency, and not one who 
is on his trial, is indicated for the control of an 
Indian Province : for, in present conditions of unrest, 
experiments that may affect the passions of thirty 
or forty millions of people may turn out to be a too 
costly method of gauging the abilities of the most 
promising of statesmen. 
Both Sir George Clarke and Sir H. Lawley showed 
great interest in the management of the forests of 
their Provinces, and brought to bear on the subject 
the wide experience they had gained in foreign 
lands; and especially they realized the importance 
of popularizing forest education, and in consequence 
it appears probable that Forest Schools will be 
established in connection with the Agricultural 
Colleges both at Poona and Coimbatoire, whereby 
both sciences will benefit. For as yet it has hardly 
become established in the mind of the peasant that 
he owes a not unimportant proportion of his pros- 
perity to forest influences, nor has the Forest Guard 
realized the bearing of these influences on agriculture. 
At Coimbatoire is a Forest Museum that will well 
repay a visit as teaching the importance of forest 
products to the people, and also as providing a 
better acquaintance with certain products that are 
familiar through export to Europe. 
Having completed my work in Calcutta, we sailed 
for Ceylon, and spent a fortnight visiting the forests 
of that island through the courtesy of the Con- 
servator, Mr. Campbell, formerly of the Indian 
Forest Service. The area of Ceylon is about 
25,500 square miles, comprised within a length of 
