PEEPACE TO THE THIED EDITION. 



The Third Edition of "The Forest Trees of 

 Mysore and Coorg" has been published at the 

 request of Mr. Lancelot Ricketts, the Inspector- 

 Greneral of Forests and Plantations in Mysore, on 

 whose action, also, a valuable file of purely local and 

 provincial information had been accumulated for 

 the purpose, by the officials of the Forest Depart- 

 ment. 



With this substantial help, and with the fullest 

 reference to such recently published works as, The 

 Flora of British India, Hooker ; Dictionary of the 

 Economic Products of India, Watt ; Flora Sylvatica 

 for Southern India, Beddome ; The Forest Flora of 

 North -West and Central India, Brandts; Pharma- 

 cographia Indica, Dymoch, Warden, and Hooper ; and 

 Mr. Graham Anderson's "Forest Trees in the Coffee 

 Lands of South Mysore," the Editor has been able 

 to greatly enlarge the work, extend its scope gener- 

 ally, and, it may be hoped, carry it nearer to the 

 ultimate condition foreseen by Captain (now Colonel) 

 Gr. J. van Someren, in his preface to the first edition. 



But although our knowledge of arboriculture has 

 improved, a reference to the text will reveal that 

 there is still much to be learned concerning the 

 identity, nomenclature, utility, and treatment of 

 local trees ; and until these sources of information 

 have been fully explored and exhausted, we cannot 

 hope to possess a complete handbook on the Forest 



