for, 50

Pearson, Colonel, supervises training Probationers, entrance examination
of probationers, 499

for forest, 502
Pearson, Major, appointed Conserva- Probationers, first selection of, for

tor in the North-West Provinces, training, 1867, 54
248, 305

Probationers for Imperial Service,
Pearson's Reports on Forests of training of, 499

North-West Provinces, 316-49 Probationers for Imperial Staff,
Pests, insect and fungous, of the possibility of training them at
forests, 537

Dehra, 507
Pests, insect and fungous, progress Probationers, Government of India
in protection, 559-562

on training of, 58, 70, 71, 72
Pests, insect, in Indian Forests, Probationers, Highland and Agricul-

Ribbentrop on the study of, 610 tural Society opposes continental
Pests, study of forest insect, com- training of, 1870, 66, 67
menced, 609

Probationers, Institute of Surveyors
Pine forests of Himalaya, impregna- opposes continental training of,
tion of sleepers from, 257

1870, 66
Pinus excelsa, exploitment of, 272, Probationers, medical examination

279
Pinus longifolia, East Indian Railway Probationers, opinions of Lieutenant-

authorities lease, area of, forests Governor on training, 56
in North-West Provinces for cut- Probationers, opposition to training
ting sleepers, 299

abroad, 52, 55, 57, 66
Pinus longifolia forests of the North- Probationers, permanent recruitment
West Provinces, 342, 343

of Department with trained pro-
Pinus longifolia, impregnation of bationers, 54
sleepers of, 299, 514

Probationers, proposed educational
Pinus longifolia, possible demand for, course, 49, 59, 72
303, 311

Probationers, proposed examinations
Pioneers of the Forest Service, the,
442

Probationers, reasons for training on
Plague, bubonic, appears in India, Continent, 52
1896, 458

Probationers, Royal Horticultural
Plantations, area of, in India by Society opposes continental train-
1900, 566

ing of, 1870, 66
Plantations, formation of, by the Probationers, Secretary of State on
railway companies, 101

training of, 53, 65, 68, 69, 70, 72,
Plantations in India, 112, 139, 140,

191, 195, 197, 200, 206, 209, 230, Probationers, training of, during
240, 248, 250, 262, 272, 277, 283, Franco-Prussian War, 69, 499
287, 352, 363, 367, 376, 405, 410, Probationers, training of, Indian
425, 563-574

Forest, 42, 45, 48
Plantations of exotics, position of, Probationers, training of, in Hanover,
1869, 41

54, 499
Plantations, thinning of, 570

Produce, forest, amounts extracted
Planting by private agency in from forests, 1880-98, 532
Madras, 94

Proprietorship of the State in the
Press Bill of 1878, 449

land, 464
Prince of Wales (late Edward VII) Protection of the Forest Officer, 535
visits India, 1875–6, 446

Protection of the forests, progress
Probationers, age of selection of, made in the, 533
71

Provincial Service, organisation of
Probationers, appointment in India

the, 491
of first trained, 70

Prussia, forests of, 47, 52, 79
Probationers, Brandis on their train- Punjab and the grazing question,
ing in India, 78

278
Probationers, cost of training of, 86 Punjab, canal plantations in, 286
Probationers, effect on training by Punjab, Cleghorn's review of, Forest
Franco-Prussian War, 68

Report of 1864-5, 262

for, 53

74, 87

Punjab, demarcation of forests in, Recruitment for superior service, 30
274, 275

Recruitment of Forest Department,
Punjab, division of forests in, 258 methods of, in 1867, 51, 485
Punjab, drift timber in, 274, 281 Reorganisation of superior service,
Punjab, experiments with larch seed, 1869, 30, 51, 61
277

Reorganisation of superior service,
Punjab, financial results of forests, 1869, cost of, 63
258, 281

Reorganisation of superior service,
Punjab, Forest Report of 1864-5, 257 Madras and Bombay, 65
Punjab, Forest Staff in, 264

Research Officer, first appointment
Punjab, fuel requirements of the of, in Indian Forests, 611
Indus steamboats, 288

Research work in insect pests of the
Punjab, Himalayan deodar forests, forests, Ribbentrop organises, 610
255, 258

Revenue Secretariat, Forest Depart-
Punjab, ownership of windfall trees, ment transferred to, 456
274

Reynolds, Mr. W: H., work of, in
Punjab, plains, forests, and fuel

Forest Survey branch, 480, 484
supplies, 283

Ribbentrop, Mr. B., appointed to
Punjab, plantations in, 262, 272, 277, service, 1867, 44, 462
283, 287

Ribbentrop, Mr. B., becomes In-
Punjab, progress of Forest Con-

spector-General, 462
servancy in 1865–70, 255, 261

Ribbentrop's Forestry of British
Punjab, railways and fuel supplies, India, 474, et seq.
283-291

Ribbentrop, the Upper Burma teak
Punjab railways and sleeper require- forests and, 512
ments, 289–291

Ribbentrop, sylviculture in India
Punjab, sleeper and fuel requirements

and, 503
by railway, 257

Rights in the forests, 472
Punjab, Stewart's visits to the Ripon, the Marquess of, Viceroy and
plains forests, 262, 275.

Governor-General, 450
Punjab, the Hoshiarpur Forests in Roberts, V.C., Field-Marshal Lord,
the, 280

on the Indian Forests, 466
Punjab, the “rukh ” fuel reserves, Rules, Forest, for Berar, Coorg, and
275, 286, 288

Bengal, 469
Pterocarpus santalinus, plantation of, Rules, Forest, made under the Acts,
113

12, 473
" Pyingado" forests of Arakan, 201,

Rules, Local, made under the Indian
2II

Forest Act (1865), 12
Pyingado," timber of, for sleepers, Rules regarding appointments, etc.,
192, 513

to superior service, 30

Rupee and compensation allowance,
Q

the, 457
Quetta occupied by British, 1876, 448 Rurki Engineering College, 83, 504

Reporter on Economic Products, 608

Research, Forest, in India, 601-611
R
Railways and fuel supplies, 99, 102,

s
140, 174, 251, 283
Railways in the Punjab and North- Salaries for trained Forest Officers, 51

West Provinces, construction of, Sal forests of Chota Nagpur, 391
289, 309, 351

Sål forests of Kumaun and Garhwal,
Ramsay, Colonel, Commissioner of 316
Kumaun, 27, 292, 446

Sâl forests of Oudh, 354, 362
Ramsay, Colonel, value of his work Sal forests of the Dun, 299, 306, 330,
in the forests, 305, 325

577
Rangers, Forest, organisation of, 81, sal forests of Tista Valley, 373, 407
486

Sâl, girdling of, 27, 28
Read, Mr. F., appointed Conservator Sål, price of, in Oudh, in 1865, 355
of Oudh in 1861, 353

Sål, rate of growth of, 362

of, 505

Sal tree in the Central Provinces, Sind, Forest Report for 1865-6, 171
distribution of, 217.

Sind, Pengelly's proposals for train-
Salt customs hedge abolished, 1879, ing the Indus, 175
447

Sind, progress of Conservancy in,
Satpura Range, destruction of forests 1865–70, 171
on, 246

Sind, provision of sleepers and fuel
Saw mills, introduction of, into for railways, 174
forests, 239

Sind, rates for sleepers and fuel in,
Schlich, Dr. (later Sir W.), appointed 177
to service 1867, 44, 462

Sind, Schlich transferred from Burma
Schlich, Dr., appointed Professor to to, 1870, 175

initiate training of Indian Forest Sind, successive “coupe " fellings in,

probationers at Cooper's Hill, 500 172
Schlich, Dr., becomes Inspector- Sind, the Secretary of State and the
General, 462

tigers, 180
Schlich, Dr., on changes in educa- Singbhum, sâl forests of, 391, 395
tion of probationers, 501

Sissu plantations in the Punjab, 571
Schlich, Report on pyingado" | Siwalik, forests of the, 330 ·

forests of Arakan by, 201, 211 Slides, timber, 521
Schlich's scheme for centralising con- Smythies, Mr., appointed to Forest

trol of working plans under the School, 505
Inspector-General, 597

Southal Pergunnahs Division, forests
Schlich, transferred from Burma to in, 380
Sind, 1870, 175

Staff, organisation of forest, 485, 487,
School, Dehra Dun Forest, formation

497

Stewart, Dr., appointed Conservator
School, Forest, education given at in the Punjab, 255.
and management of, 506

Stray leaves from Indian Forest, 603
School, Forest, for India, 53, 83, 89, Sundarbans Forests, the, 386, 424
505

Survey Branch, Forest, creation of,
Scotch Forests, training of pro- 480
bationers in, 49, 50, 76

Survey Branch, Forest, work and
Secretary of State and forest con-

of, 481-484
servation, 465

Surveys, Forest, progress of, 479
Secretary of State and the Indian Sylhet District, forests of, 396
Forests, 292, 418

Sylvicultural operations in the forests
Settlements, Forest, 475

of sål, deodar, teak, khair or cutch,
Settlements, results of forest, to 1900, iron-wood, padouk, sandal wood,
474

sissu, Acacia arabica, the pines,
Settlement Work, Forest, description silver fir, (spruce, W. Himalayan
of, 476

oaks, and Juniperus excelsa, 577-
Shifting cultivation, progress in stop- 591

ping by, 1900, 538
Ship-building, crooked timber for, in

T
Britain, 92
Ship-building, crooked timber for, Teak, a rare product in Madras
in Madras, 91

Presidency, 90
Sikkim, Conservancy of Forests in, Teak forests of the Central Provinces,

371, 374, 375, 405, 411, 425
Sikkim Forests, timbers and prices, Teak, girdling of, 26
406

Teak plantations, 112, 139, 140, 191,
Sind, Brandis visits forests in 1867-8, 195, 197, 200, 206, 209, 230, 240,
174

248, 250, 426, 564, 565, 567, 572,
Sind, co-operation of Civil and

573
Forest Officers in, 173

Teak, rate of growth of, in Burma,
Sind, effect of Indus River on forests,

195, 202
172, 175

Teak timber, yield of, in Burma, 192
Sind, first two trained Forest Officers Tehri Garhwal State Forests, lease of,
join in, 175

257

222

Temple, Chief Commissioner of the Village forests, provision of, in India,
Central Provinces, 235, 245

307, 355
Tenancy Acts of Bengal, Oudh, and Villages and the waste lands, 465
the Punjab, 455

Vindhya Range, forests of, 347, 349
Tirunhally Temple, claim to forests

by Trustees of, 110
Timbers, Indian, commonly exploited

W
by 1900, 510
Tista River, suggested floating logs Warth, Dr., appointed on Dehra Dun
down, 373, 377, 407, 409

Staff, 607
Tons and Rupin Rivers Forests, Re- Waste lands, afforestation of, by
ports of, 299, 342, 344, 351

1900, 574
Tons River Forests and the Raj- Watt, Sir George, C.I.E., Reporter on

putana Railway, sleepers from, Economic Products, 608
341, 345

Webber, Reports on forests of North-
'Toungya” cultivation and the West Provinces, 292, 302
formation of teak plantations, 209, Wood, Capt. E. S., Conservator in
426, 568

Oudh in 1864, 353
' Toungya” cultivation in Burma, Wood, Sir Charles, Secretary of

State for India, 292
Trade depression and the Forestry Working plan, Brandis' first, for
Department, 6

201