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drawn for information connected with the various branches of the subject, 
to guide or supplement what I have personally gleaned. 
In regard to the geography, structure, cultivation, &c, of other parts 
of the Sub-Siwalik belt near or remote, I have been indebted to Traill's 
Report onKumaon, Mr. Batten's Report on the Kumaon Bhabur, Jones' 
Report on Rohilkhund Canals, Elliott's Supplement to the Glossary 
N. W. P., Strachey on the Physical Structure of the Himalaya, Jameson's 
Report on the Physical Aspect of the Punjab, and Hooker's Himalayan 
Journals. 
Respecting especially the indigenous vegetation of various parts of 
the tract I have been aided by Hamilton Buchanan (in Martin's East 
India) Royle's Illustrations of Himalayan Botany, Griffith's Itinerary 
Notes, Hoffmeister's Travels in India, and Dr. Thompson's Western Hi- 
malaya. 
And I have drawn largely on the following for information as to the 
production and qualities of timbers and vegetable products generally in 
neighbouring or distant parts of India. Madden on the Tarai of Kumaon 
(Journ. Asiat : Soc : Calcutta 1848), Col. Ramsay's Report on the 
Kumaon Forests for 1861, Capt. Pearson's Report on the Forests of 
Central India (1861), Col. Cuningham on the Stone and Timber of the 
Gwalior Territory, Munro on the Timber Trees of Bengal (J. A. S. 1847), 
Long's Indigenous Plants of Bengal (J. Agri. and Horticultural Society 
of India, vols, ix and x.), Drury's Useful Plants of India, Dalzell and 
Gibson's Bombay Flora, and Birdwood's Catalogue of Bombay Vegetable 
Products. To Col . Munro's paper in particular I owe the few figures I 
have given as to the strength and specific gravity of various kinds of 
timber, as opportunity and resources did not avail me to institute fresh 
experiments on the timbers of local growth. 
Personally, however, I have had various advantages in investigating 
the geography and productions of the Bijnour Forest. Besides spending 
many weeks last cold weather (between Novr. 20th, 1862, and May 20th, 
1863) in the forest for the pursuit of such investigation, I had the 
privilege of perusing Mr. Palmer's Forest Reports and examining the 
maps in his office, of making frequent inquiry on various points of Mr. 
Firm in charge of the Gurhwal (and Chandee) Forests, and of constant 
reference to the official who of all in the district is, I conceive, best 
qualified to get and give information on such matters, — Anoop Sing, 
Tahseeldar of Nujeebabad. To each and all of these I have to confess 
my obligations, and I shall close with the expression of a hope that the 
multiform information thus acquired and here systematized may not 
prove altogether useless to future inquirers in similar fields. 
