CONTENTS OF VOLUME I FOREST OPERATIONS IN UPPER INDIA-NORTH-WEST PRO- VINCES AND OUDH, CENTRAL INDIA, PUNJAB, BENGAL AND XI. THE INITIAL STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FOREST POLICY, 1850-57. THE ANNEXATION OF THE PUNJAB, OUDH, AND THE PEGU PROVINCE, BURMA XIII. FOREST OPERATIONS IN BURMA (TENASSERIM)-1850-57, XIV. FOREST OPERATIONS IN Burma (Pegu), 1850–57 (continued). XVI. FOREST OPERATIONS IN THE PUNJAB AND WESTERN HIMA- XVIII. THE BEGINNINGS OF FOREST CONSERVANCY IN THE MADRAS XIX. THE INITIATION OF FOREST CONSERVANCY IN THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, 1858-64. THE SIND FORESTS, 1858-64 325 XX. THE INTRODUCTION OF FOREST CONSERVANCY IN BURMA, 1858-64. SIR D. BRANDIS' WORK IN BURMA XXIV. FOREST OPERATIONS IN THE PUNJAB, 1858–64 (continued). XXV. FOREST OPERATIONS IN THE PUNJAB, 1858-64 (continued). THE FUEL SUPPLIES OF SIMLA and the PUNJAB PLAINS 476 ILLUSTRATIONS, VOLUME I The Lake at Naini Tal, nestled in a secluded valley under the summit of China Pahar (vide page 498) Rainfall Map of India Frontispiece Left of title page To face page Melocanna bambusioides, six years old, Kassalong River, Chittagong Hill The Forest Bungalow, Anaimalai Forests, Madras View from Rungamatti, Chittagong Hill Tracts. A mutilated Gurjun oil tree (Dipterocarpus turbinatus) on right Chilgoza (Pinus Gerardiana) Forest at Shinghar, with natural regeneration in foreground. North Zhob 46 48 50 64 Country cart loaded with a squared teak beam of 20 cubic feet (Madras) Five logs from one teak tree, South Coimbatore, Madras. Dimensions of log with figure: Length, 16 ft. 9 in.; mean girth, 16 ft. 6 in.; volume, 285 cubic feet On the Beypur River, Nilumbur Two-year Teak Plantation, Nilumbur, Madras Elephants piling squares of teak timber in a timber yard at Rangoon Bamboo rafts of Muli bamboo, Kassalong River, Chittagong Hill Tracts 72 92 97 129 134 200 Ficus enclosing a teak tree. Girth over ficus, 17 ft. 5 in. Burma. The Nilgiris, showing sholas. Pykara Falls and heavy forest on right Sâl Forest, heavily cut out by contractors and then swept by a storm. Old uncut sâl forests in Chota Nagpur. A characteristic view. A Rukh in the Punjab. The vegetation consists of Capparis aphylla (in Dr. J. D. Hooker, F.R.S., in the Rhododendron Region in the Hima |