Circular No. dated Calcutta, the 1.3th February 1907. 
From — S. Eardley-Wilmot, Estj., Inspector-General of Forests to the 
Government of India, 
To — The Chief Conservator of Forests, Burma. 
The Chief Conservator of Forests, Central Provinces. 
All Conservators of Forests (except those in Burma and Central Provin- 
ces). 
The Deputy Conservator of Forests, Coorg. 
The Deputy Conservator of Forests, Andamans. 
The Deputy Conservator of Forests, North-West Frontier Province. 
The Extra- Assistant Conservator of Forests, Baluchis tan. 
The Extra -Assistant Conservator of Forests, Ajmer. 
All Officers of the Imperial Forest Research Institute and College. 
I HAVE the honour to address you on the subject of the future publica- 
tion of departmental literature comprising the results of investigations 
and research by members of the Imperial Forest Research Institute, 
and of other members of the Department, as well as of those who not 
being attached thereto possess information of value which they are 
desirous of permanently recording. In the past the pages of the Indian 
Forester provided the principal medium by which subjects of professional 
interest were brought to the notice of a limited public, and in 1892 the 
“ Appendix Series ” to the Indian Forester was ocmmenced with the 
design of placing at the disposal of members of the Forest Department 
and others monographs on important subjects published at Govern- 
ment expense and circulated free of cost with the departmental magazine. 
In 1905 the Appendix Series gave way to Forest Bulletins, and since 
then 9 Bulletins (which have had a much wider circulation and have, 
judging from the demand, supplied a much-felt want) have been issued. 
2. With the constitution of a Forest Research Institute and the 
development of scientific investigation in the Forest Department the 
necessity of placing Indian forest literature on a more satisfactory footing 
has become apparent and the Government of India have sanctioned 
a proposal that the same methods as have proved so successful in the 
Geological Survey Department should be adopted in the Forest Depart- 
ment so that publications containing important information may remain 
available for permanent reference and be issued in such form as would 
be most acceptable to the scientific world and most convenient for econo- 
mic purposes. 
74 R. & A. 
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