CONTENTS OF VOLUME II II. THE TRAINING OF FOREST PROBATIONERS FOR INDIAN 90 IX. THE INTRODUCTION OF FOREST CONSERVANCY INTO THE NORTH-WEST PROVINCES AND Oudh, 1865-70 (continued). X. THE INTRODUCTION OF FOREST CONSERVANCY INTO THE NORTH-WEST PROVINCES AND OUDH, 1865-1870 (con- XI. FOREST OPERATIONS IN BENGAL AND ASSAM, 1865-1870 XIII. A Brief ReviewW OF HISTORICAL FACTORS AND ADMINISTRA- XIV. THE PROGRESS OF FOREST ADMINISTRATION, 1871-1900 461 XVI. THE PROGRESS Made in Methods of EXPLOITATION AND IN THE CONSTRUction of CoMMUNICATIONS and BuildINGS, XX. INDIAN FOREST LITERATURE AND RESEARCH, 1850-1900 ILLUSTRATIONS, VOLUME II The Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill. The Training Bombax malabaricum showing the development of buttresses, North- Cypress trees (Cupressus torulosa) at Naini Tal, North-West Provinces Corner of a garden at Labdah, near Mungpoo, Government Cinchona The 100-foot cleared fire line separating the British and Baroda State The cleared fire line between the forest and village lands, Bombay. The A typical example of a mixed forest, Burma A typical view of the bamboo forest, Burma A Lalitpur river, North-West Provinces. Owing to the denudation of The Ramganga Valley, showing the sâl forests, North-West Provinces, I 12 28 94 118 136 136 182 202 236 296 300 318 The remnants of an old sål forest. The trees now stand on waste savannah land. The Patli Dun, North-West Provinces, April, 1889 320 Looking up the Tons River from Thadiar. The forest on the lower slopes of the hills is chir pine (Pinus longifolia). The hills in the background are clothed with deodar. Very typical mixed forest in Independent Sikkim. Elevation 4000 7000 feet. The stream is a tributary of the Great Rungeet, not far from the Monastery of Pemionchi. The view is taken lower down between Chakung and Rinchingpong . 342 The Sal Forests in the Tista Valley, looking north up the river. The 378 To face page Singbhum Sal Forests, Chota Nagpur, showing type of rough mud or rock export road through forest. A bullock sagar "loaded with sleepers taking the declivity into the nulla at full trot; their ordinary pace is a walk-a slow one! 1897. The Sål Forest on the Great Rungeet River above its junction with the View near Chakung, Sikkim, 4000 feet. With Kinchinjunga, 28,150 feet, View of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and the Karnafuli River from 392 408 412 422 434 The first Forestry 504 The Imperial Forest School, Dehra Dun, India. . Thadiar on the Tons River in the Tehri Garhwal leased forests (North West Himalaya) from which great quantities of deodar and chir timber (scantlings) were floated to the Jumna River, where they were caught at the boom of Dakhpathar, made into rafts and taken to Delhi. The suspension bridge is one of the older pattern built over the Hill Rivers (circa 1888) Typical example of the forest on a hill-side in Sikkim destroyed by fire. The ground is becoming covered with the Maling bamboo (Arundinaria racemosa). Toungloo Ridge, 8800 feet. Rungeet Valley below The Kalmoi Fire Observation Station, Surat Forests, Bombay. Note the Observer's post in the tree and the big drum by means of which warning of an outbreak of fire is sent out. The Notices of Fire Regulations are posted on the hut The Nilumbur Teak Plantations, Madras. A plantation about fifty years old (cf. with plate facing p. 97, Vol. I) 508 518 520 Portion of a six and a half year old patch of Teak sowings in flowered Eucalyptus globulus Plantation in the Nilgiri Hills, Madras Chir Pine (Pinus longifolia) Forest showing natural regeneration in the foreground. Lodh, Kumaun, North-West Provinces, October, 1890. 590 584 |