320 India. 
1895, now in its third edition, enlarged to five volumes, 
is the most comprehensive publication. Another 
author deserving mention is John Nisbet, known by 
his Studies in Forestry (1894), who also engrafted 
continental silvicultural notions into later editions of 
James Brown’s The Forester, an encyclopedic work 
of merit. 
John Croumbie Brown’s sixteen volumes on forests 
and forestry in various countries may be mentioned 
among the propagandist literature. The Arboricul- 
tural Societies mentioned also make a brave effort to 
advance professional development of forestry in their 
publications. 
INDIA. 
While so neglectful of its forest interests at home, 
Great Britain has developed in her possessions in the 
East Indies a far-seeing policy, and, under the lead of 
German influence, has established there one of the 
largest, if not most efficient, forest departments in 
the world. 
Contrary to a frequently expressed idea that the 
conditions and problems of India are comparable to 
the conditions and problems of the United States, so 
that the example of Great Britain in India rather than 
that of any European country might serve us in the 
United States, the writer thinks that the very opposite 
is true. Not only are the natural conditions for the 
most part different, India being mainly tropical with 
an entirely different flora and different conditions of 
growth, but industrial, cultural, social and political 
conditions are also entirely different; all of which 
