Synopsis This book in four volumes will also act as an extremely useful reference material for postgraduate students, advanced students, research workers and professionals in forestry, forest management professionals, researchers in forestry and ecology concerned with natural resource management and forest scientists.

It is greatly hoped that it will not be thought that the interest and value of this book and the three preceding volumes are limited to the three countries forming the scene of the events described, and those who have worked in them whether as foresters or otherwise. Owing to the early start, to the scale of operations, and to the great range of conditions and type of forests, it was more or less inevitable that what was being accomplished there should serve as a model (yes, and sometimes as a warning) for other parts of the commonwealth, above all for the developing dependent countries with forest problems, and in some cases, extensive forests, calling for protection, management, and exploitation. In a great number of cases, the new forest departments were launched by or with the advice of professional foresters from the Indian Forest Service. Subsequently, although each territory had to develop on its own lines suited to all the local conditions, the longer experience of India continued to be of value, and not a few officers were able to visit the country and profit from that experience, particularly in such directions as research, technique, and tropical management.