A

Admiralty, British, and teak timber
supplies, 63, 64, 69, 142
Agency depôts in Bombay, abolish-
ment of, 337, 338

Agency to procure teak timber sup-
plies, 79, 80, 104, 105
Akbar and tree planting, 32
Alexander the Great, expedition of,

19, 30, 445

Alexander the Great, position of
forests in north-west at time of, 30
Alompra dynasty and the teak for-
ests, 206, 244

Alompra dynasty in Burma and the
Burmese teak forests, 35
Alpine forest zone, 50

Anaimalai teak forests, 106, 107, 223
Anaimalai teak forests, working of,
223-229

Andamans Forests, 48

Anderson, Dr., appointed Conser-
vator of Forests, Bengal and Assam,
514

Arabs and the Indian teak market,
1844, 104

Arabs and Indian trade, 21, 22
Aryans, advent of, into India, 18, 29
Aryans and clearance of the forests, 29
Assam, no Forest Conservancy in,
before 1860, 210
Assam Forests, 518

Assam, forest operations in, 514
Attaran Forests, Brandis' work in, 379
Attaran teak forests, 130

Auckland, Lord, on the teak forests
of Madras, 89

Auckland, Lord, on the Tenasserim
teak forests, 149

B

Babul plantations, how to form them,
487

Bannu District, sissoo forest of, 474
Baspa Valley, forests of, 415

Beddome, Colonel, in the Anaimalais,

229

Bengal, Anderson appointed Conser-
vator in, 515

Bengal and Assam, no Forest Conser-
vancy in before 1860, 210

Bengal and timber supplies about
1849, 201

Bengal, forest operations in, 514
Bengal Forests, Brandis' visit to, 514
Bengal, proposed forest establish-
ment for, 516

Bhutan, war declared against, 515
Blackwood a royal tree in Bombay,78
Blackwood, value of in Madras, 305
Board of Revenue, Madras, and teak
forests, 72, 77, 80, 83, 85, 99, 106
Boat-building industry of Indus, 474
Bombay, Annual Report of Forest
Department, 1862-3, 359

Bombay, Bingham's reorganisation
proposals, 330

Bombay enquiry into teak resources,
78

Bombay forest tariffs, 122

Bombay Forests, Colonel Jervis's de-
scription of their condition in 1843,
111-115

Bombay Government suggests ap-
pointment of a Conservator and
staff for forests, 117

Bombay, rules for protection of
forests, 327

Bombay, start of Forest Conservancy
in, 219, 320

Brandis and Pearson inspect forests
of Central Provinces, 396
Brandis appointed Inspector-General
of Forests, 396

Brandis appointed Superintendent of
Pegu teak forests, 207, 263

Brandis appointed to charge of Ten-
asserim and Martaban Forests, 206,
243, 263

Brandis, Indian Trees, 39

Brandis' work in Burma, 367

Bear River, deodar forests on, 265,
417

Cinchona cultivation in Darjiling,
517

Burma Annual Forest Report, 1864-5:
390

Burma teak forests, 65
Bushahr, forests of, 410, 415
Bushahr Forests, valuation survey,
report of, by Brandis, 416

C

Canara, Collector of, on the teak
forests, 73, 74, 75, 99, 101, 117,

222

Canara teak forests, 68, 79, 88, 305
Central India, condition of, in early
part of nineteenth century, 197
Central Indian Forests unexplored in
1860, 392

Central Provinces, commencement of
forest administration in, 392
Central Provinces, Annual Forest Re-
port, 1863-4, 403

Central Provinces, area of forests in,
397

Central Provinces Forests in 1853,

200

Central Provinces Forests, aborigines
of, 398

Central Provinces Forests devastated
after Mutiny by unrestricted fell-
ings, 394

Central Provinces, organisation of
Forest Department, 393
Chamba, capital of the State, 270
Chamba Forests, 270, 426, 434
Chamba Forests, labour force em-
ployed in, 435

Chamba State, timber supplies from,
272, 426

Charter of East India Company, 24
Charter of Indian Forests, 206, 256-
260

Chatter Menon appointed to Nilum-

bur teak plantations, 96

Chatter Menon's work at Nilumbur,
304

Chenab and Ravi Agencies united,427
Chenab Timber Agency, 264, 272. 434
Chenab River, deodar and other
forests of, 270, 432

Chir forests of the Western Hima-
laya, 507

Chir forests of the North-West Pro-
vinces, first attempt to work them,
507

Forests, Madras, 219, 30I

Cleghorn and Brandis appointed
Commissioners of Forests, 324
Cleghorn deputed to Punjab, 324, 404
Cleghorn, on Indian Forests at British
Association, 214-218

Cleghorn, on shifting cultivation in
Mysore, 1847: 107, 205

Cleghorn, Report on establishing
Forest Conservancy in Madras,
1856, 230

Cleghorn's work in Madras, 221, 301
Climate of India, II

Cochin teak forests, 305

Coimbatore teak forests, 106
Commissary-General, Bombay, and
teak supplies, 78, 79
Communications in India in 1857,

297

Conolly authorised to appoint a Sub-
Conservator of Forests, 91
Conolly, Collector of Malabar, 88
Conolly, suggested leasing teak for-
ests by Government, 88, 89
Conolly's Rules for Forest Conser-
vancy, 91

Conolly teak plantations at Nilum-
bur, 92, 105, 304, 306

Conservator of Forests appointed in
Madras, 1806: 64, 70

Conservatorship in Madras abolished
in 1823, 71

Conservancy of Bombay and Madras
Forests, 81

Court of Directors and enquiries
about teak timber, 63, 65, 69
Court of Directors and the forestry
question in Madras and Bombay,

86, 90

Court of Directors on Tenasserim
Forests, 168

Court of Directors on the Licence
system in the Tenasserim teak
forests, 185, 188

D

Dalhousie, Lord, Memorandum on
Forest Policy, 1855, 206, 256-260
Dehra Dun (Deyra Doon), sâl and
sissoo forests of, 1825, 195
Denudation of forests, effects of, on
climate, 325
Deodar, 51, 264

Falconer deputed to inspect the
Tenasserim teak forests, 66
Falconer's recommendations on Ten-
asserim teak forests, 242
Falconer's Report on the Tenasserim
teak forests, 205, 231

Falconer's Report on Simla fuel sup-
plies, 284

Floating of logs, time taken to reach
depôt, 431, 436

Forest Conservancy in Southern
India, 205

Forest denudation and effect on the
climate, 120

Forest Department placed under
Public Works Department, reasons
for, 521

Forest devastation, effects of, on
Indian climate and rainfall, 210-
214

Forest policy, absence of British, in
early days in India, 37
Forest policy, first stages in develop-
ment of a, 61, 205

Gibson appointed

"

Interim Conser-
vator," Bombay, 117

Gibson, Report on Bombay Forests,
1840-41 78, 111, 115

Gibson's work in Bombay, 220, 305
Girdling teak trees, 74, 155, 228
Giri River, forests on the, 406
Godavari timber forests, 320
Government of India and rules for
protection of forests, 123

Government of India and the corre-
spondence on teak forests in
Madras, 99

Government of India on the value of
the Indian Forests. Despatch of
November 1, 1862: 522

Greeks, advent of, into India, 18
Gurkhas and the British, first meet-
ing of, 191

Guthrie appointed Superintendent of
Forests in Tenasserim, 66, 176