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General further desired Dr Cleghorn to proceed to the Punjab to 
examine the forests of Western Himalaya, and to institute a syste- 
matic plan of conservancy and management. He spent three years in 
exploring the countries adjacent to our north-west frontier, including 
part of Kashmir and the Trans-Indus territory. The fine series of 
photographs taken during his journey to Kashmir give a vivid idea 
of the remarkable geological formation, of the richness of many parts 
in pines and other trees, and of the general configuration of the 
region. 
The two commissioners met frequently, and finally presented 
reports. Dr Cleghorn’s was published in 1864, and forms a large 
octavo volume, with various maps and plans, exhaustively dealing 
with the forests of the Punjab, and in a manner that reflected the 
highest credit on his ability as a scientific botanist and experienced 
administrator in forestry. 
Having thus introduced the system of forest conservancy in the 
Punjab, Dr Cleghorn returned to Madras, and carried on the duties 
of Conservator of the Forests in that Province. “He had the 
satisfaction of accomplishing for the Madras Presidency the same 
result, which thirteen years previously he had helped to bring about 
in Mysore. The Government prohibited Kumri cultivation in the 
forests without previous permission.”* Meanwhile, Sir D. Brandis, 
whose experiences of forests were European, for he had studied the 
subject in Germany, Saxony, and France, as well as in India, was 
appointed the first Inspector-General of Forests to the Government. 
Life passed pleasantly in Madras for some years, but his father 
dying at Stravithie in 1864, he came home on short leave in 1865. 
He also acted as Inspector-General of Forests w^hen Dr Brandis 
visited this country in 1867. Finally, he retired from Indian service 
in 1869. 
Besides his official reports, he published a work in 1861 on the 
“ Forests and Gardens of South India ” — in which the conservancy 
of the forests, the economical method of supplying fuel, and the 
modes of treating the several trees, as well as the condition of the 
various gardens, were fully illustrated. As Principal Sir William Muir 
stated some years ago,f this work was extremely useful in spreading 
* Sir D. Brandis, op. dt.^ p. 90. 
t Trans. Eoy. Arbor. Soc., xii. p. 200. 
