346 India. 
In 1905, this department was transferred to Oxford 
> University and the course extended to three years, one 
- year to be spent in continental forests. 
Mr. Brandis early saw also the necessity of providing 
-the means of giving the natives of India some sort of 
-technical education in forestry. The first step in this 
direction was to place natives, selected ones, under one 
or two officers of the Imperial Service who were 
. deemed fit to instruct them, and in this way a few good 
men were turned out. Another experiment after the 
German pattern was made by apprenticing likely 
young men under some forester for a year or two and 
.then sending them to an engineering school for theo- 
retical instruction. This was also a failure. After 
_mauch hard work the Indian forest school at Dehra Dun 
- was established in 1878, the forests between the Jumna 
and the Ganges rivers were set aside as training grounds, 
- formed into a special Forest Circle and placed under the 
control of the director of the school. These forests 
have been subjected to regular systems of management, 
based on European experience, and excellent results 
have been obtained. The first course of systematic 
- theoretical instruction was opened on the Ist of July, 
1881. In 1884 the school was made an imperial insti- 
. tution by the Government of India, and the Inspector- 
General of Forests was charged with its supervision, 
- under a Board of Control, consisting of the Inspector- 
- General, the Director, and three Conservators, with the 
Assistant Inspector-General as secretary. This board 
meets once a year at Dehra, conducts the examinations, 
_and looks into all of the workings of the School very 
. carefully. There are two courses—one in which the 
