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The Indian '''Forestry''' Department of India was created in 1867, under the leadership of Dr Dietrich Brandis <ref>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Brandis '''Dietrich Brandis - Wikipedia'''].</ref>
==FIBIS resources==
===Records Online===
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1872-lists-of-officers-in-survey-and-forest-departments-and-in-port-blair-on-1st-oct-1872-s-pdf/ '' Lists of Officers in Survey and Forest Departments, and in Port Blair on 1st October 1872'']. Pdf download from Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1873-lists-of-officers-in-survey-and-forest-departments-on-1st-october-1873-s-pdf/ ''Lists of Officers in Survey and Forest Departments on 1st October 1873''] Pdf download from Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/classifiedlistof00indirich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Classified list of forest officers of the Imperial and Provincial services in India and Burma on 1st January 1916''] Archive.org
==Z-Force in Burma, WW2==
Employees of the Burma Forest Service, the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation and Foucar Brothers, one of the large timber companies operating in Burma, were recruited to the 'Z-Force', a WW2 joint Allied reconnaissance and sabotage unit, who became 'Johnnies'. It was decided to recruit volunteers who were prepared to go into Burma, hide themselves in selected areas, and report back any information that they could pick up. "All had a thorough knowledge of the jungle, its inhabitants, and their language; all were tough and used to living on their own far from civilization; and all possessed courage of outstanding quality".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140226122557/https://www.spink.com//lot-description.aspx?id=100816 Medals of Major C.G. ´Micky´ Merton], November 25, 2010 spink.com, now an archived page.</ref><ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20180102030655/http://members.madasafish.com/~cj_whitehound/family/Denis_Wilmot_Rae_b1908.htm Denis Wilmot Rae, born circa 1908], an archived webpage.</ref>
Also see External links below.
==Also see==
Books by Forest Officers are included in
*[[Hunting accounts online]]
*[[Scientific books online#Animals|Scientific books online-Animals]]
==External links==
*[https://indianforester.co.in/index.php/indianforester/index Website of The Indian Forester journal] Includes full search facility. See also Historical Books online below.
*[http://www.indianetzone.com/36/developments_forestry_british_india.htm Developments in Forestry, British India] from History of India, Indianetzone
*[http://www.eh-resources.org/colonial_forestry.html The colonial origins of scientific forestry in Britain] by Jan Oosthoek. Contains good background history of forestry service in India
*[http://www.sfri.org/images/general/article_brit_ind.pdf “British India’s forestry and modern environmentalism”] by GN Sinha 2006. sfri.org
*[http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2019%20No%2023/otherstories.html#story3 Pages from History: Edward the green Balfour] ''Madras Musings'' March 16-31 2010. Then an [[Doctor#Individuals|Assistant Surgeon]] in the Madras Medical Service, he pioneered forest conservation schemes in India after 1840.
*[http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2015/10/sturdy-scots-and-pale-faced-londoners.html "Sturdy Scots and pale-faced Londoners"] 06 October 2015 British Library Untold Lives blog. The examinations, academic and physical, required for appointment to the Indian Forest Service in 1880, when six were appointed. Details from British Library record IOR/L/E/6/4, File 127.*[https://www.thebetterindia.com/125912/hugo-wood-teak-trees-anamalai-hills-tamil-nadu/ "This Forgotten Scotsman Is The Reason Why The Anamalai Hills Are Still Lush With Trees"] thebetterindia.com. Hugo Wood, District Forest Officer of Coimbatore South Division 1915-1926.:[http://keralaarchaeology.blogspot.com/2016/07/wood-who-buried-in-woods.html "Wood Who Buried In Woods: Hugo Wood- 1870 to 1933"] Keralaarchaeology.com.*Listen to the [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/collection/florence-meiklejohn/ 1979 interview], with [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/pdf/078a.pdf transcript 1] and [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/pdf/078b.pdf transcript 2], with Florence Meiklejohn, wife of 'Mick' (W.), Indian Forestry Service Officer who tells what life was like for her accompanying him on his tours in Indian forests. 1920s-1940s. s-asian.cam.ac.uk*[https://www.intelligencemuseum.org/assets/pdf/articles/website%20samuel%20newland%20dso%20cy%201.11.2017.pdf "Fighting Heroes of the Intelligence Corps: Hero No. 2: Samuel Newland DSO Indian Army Intelligence Corps"] by Harry Fecitt intelligencemuseum.org.Prior to WW2 Samuel Newland was member of the Burma Forest Service. *[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-08-19city/pune/41424901_1_booksForest-digitisationdepartment-processlibrary-entireto-go-library online/articleshow/21906902.cms "Forest department library to go online"] by Ananya Dutta, August 19, 2013 Times of India .The It is stated the digital books will be become available at [httphttps://www.mahaforest.nicgov.in/index.php ?lang_eng_mar=Eng Maharashtra Forest Department]*[https://www.spink.comCurrently (2020/11/lot-description.aspx?id=100816 Medals of Major C.G. ´Micky´ Merton]07) however, November 25, 2010 spink.com. Mentions employees of the Burma Forest Service, the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation and Foucar Brothers, one of the large timber companies operating in Burma, who were recruited English language website does not appear to the 'Z-Force', show a WW2 joint Allied reconnaissance and sabotage unit, who became 'Johnnies'. It was decided link to recruit volunteers who were prepared digitised books available to go into Burma, hide themselves in selected areas, and report back any information that they could pick up. "All had a thorough knowledge of the jungle, its inhabitants, and their language; all were tough and used to living on their own far from civilization; and all possessed courage of outstanding quality"public.
===Historical books online===
*Various editions of the monthly magazine [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22the+indian+forester%22+AND+mediatype%3Atexts&sort=date ''The Indian Forester''] covering a period between 1880 and 1911, with some for the 1930s, can be found at archive.org. Editions from c 1884 have the additional title ''A Monthly Magazine Of Forestry Agriculture, Shikar And Travel''. Note however, some editions are do not have a date of publication, or are classified as published in 1875.
:Additionally, most of the editions Volume 1, 1876 to Volume 33 , 1907 are available to download as a pdf files from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset, located under “[http://pahar.in/journals/ Journals]”.
:Many individuals are mentioned in the included "Extracts from Official Gazettes". As an example of the latter, [https://archive.org/stream/indianforesterv02unkngoog#page/n532/mode/2up Appendix: ”Extracts from Official Gazettes”] (125 pages) following page 484, Volume XXIV (1898) Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromr00indgoog#page/n93/mode/1up ''Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal: No 9: Report on the Teak Forests of Tenasserim Provinces''] includes [http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromr00indgoog#page/n281/mode/1up '"Summary of papers relating to the Madras and Bombay Forests"] with an [http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromr00indgoog#page/n375/mode/1up Index] 1852 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924002927683#page/n1/mode/2up ''The work of the Forest Department in India''] edited by Robert Scott Troup 1917 Archive.org
*''The Forests of India'' by E P Stebbing [https://archive.org/details/ForestsIndia1 Volume I] 1922, [https://archive.org/details/ForestsIndia2 Volume II] 1923, [https://archive.org/details/ForestIndia3 Volume III] 1926 Archive.org (reposted from the Digital Library of India)
:[http://archive.org/stream/junglebywaysinin00stebrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Jungle by-ways in India; leaves from the note-book of a sportsman and a naturalist''] by Edward Percy Stebbing 1911 Archive.org. The author spent sixteen years in the Indian Forest Service
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/100yearsofindian029827mbp#page/n9/mode/2up ''100 years of Indian Forestry 1861-1961 Volume 1''] by VS Rao 1961 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.221304/page/n7 ''Forty Years Among The Wild Animals Of India From Mysore To The Himalayas''] by F C Hicks , late Dy [Deputy] Conservator, Imperial Forest Service 1910 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.463829/page/n5 Volume I only] (although catalogued Vol. 2] 1911 edition, published in four volumes. Archive.org
:The author was appointed as Assistant Conservator of Forests in 1866 at Hoshangabad, C P.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924012409987 ''Forest Life and Sport in India''] by Sainthill Eardley-Wilmot, late Inspector-General of Forests to the Government of India. 1910 Archive.org. The author joined the Indian Forest Service in December 1873 at Lucknow.
:[https://archive.org/details/lifeofelephant00eard/page/136/mode/2up ''The Life of an Elephant''] by S Eardley-Wilmot 1912 Archive.org
*[http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=sea;cc=sea;q1=wallah;rgn=title;view=toc;idno=sea297 ''Experiences of a jungle-wallah''] by Hugh Nisbet 1910 Southeast Asia Visions. The author worked for the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation from 1879. The company logged teak in the Burma forests.
:The company is mentioned evacuating the European families of its forest officers in 1942, in [http://books.google.com/books?id=BRUOLFj1TXgC&pg=PA56 Songs of The Survivors], page 56, stories about the Goan community and the Trek Out of Burma in 1942.
*[httphttps://archive.org/details/roughingitinsout00handrich ''Roughing it in Southern India''] by Mrs M A Handley 1911 Archive.org. The author was the wife of a Forest Officer.* ''Wild Animals In Central India'' by A A Dunbar Brander 1923. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284797 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The author was a Conservator of Forests in the Central Provinces. *[https://archive.org/details/practicalforestm00trevuoft/page/n11/mode/2up ''Practical forest management : a handbook with special reference to the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh''] by C G Trevor [Charles Gerald] and E A Smythies [Evelyn Arthur] 1923 Archive.org. :[https://archive.org/streamdetails/dli.csl.7064/junglebywaysinin00stebrich#page/n7n5/mode/2up ''Jungle Indiaʼs Forest Wealth''] by E A Smythies 1925 Archive.org.:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1942-big-game-shooting-in-nepal-by-ways smythies-s-pdf/ ''Big Game Shooting in Nepal''] by Smythies 1942. Full title: ''Big Game Shooting in India; Nepal. With leaves from the noteMaharaja's sporting diary'' by Evelyn Arthur Smythies. Link to a download, Pahar-book Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If download button does not display, locate under Books/ Nepal/1942.:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._A._Smythies E. A. Smythies] Wikipedia. Forester and philatelist.:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1961-ten-thousand-miles-on-elephants-by-smythies-s-pdf/ ''Ten Thousand Miles on Elephants''] by Olive Smythies 1961. Link to a sportsman download, Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If download button does not display, locate under Books/ Nepal/1961. Wife of E. A. Smythies. "It documents the lives and conditions in various places in India, as well as the wildlife and a naturalistthe experiences of travelling". Olive Smythies also wrote ''Tiger Lady : adventures in the Indian jungle'' 1953, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008310976 and ''Jungle Families ''1954 UIN: BLL01003427846. Article: [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-477009321/view?sectionId=nla.obj-485815215&partId=nla.obj-477228970#page/n4/mode/1up "Lady and the Tiger"] page 4 ''The Australian woman's mirror''. Vol. 29 No. 45 (30 September 1953).nla.gov.au.*[https://archive.org/details/CameraTigerland ''With A Camera In Tiger Land''] by Edward Percy Stebbing 1911 F W Champion 1928 (first published 1927) Archive.org. The author spent sixteen years was in the Indian Imperial Forest Serviceof India, a keen naturalist and photographer.: ''The Jungle In Sunlight And Shadow'' by FW Champion 1934. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211938 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India..* Selected editions ''Forest Life In India'' by James W Best 1934. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.219436 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.. The author was a forest officer in central India for 19 years.*[http://pecongress.org.pk/images/upload/books/P17-PAPER130.pdf Paper No 130 "Punjab Building Timbers and Methods of Extraction"] by H M Glover IFS pages 119-126b (total 18 pages including photographs) ''Proceedings of the Punjab Engineering Congress, Lahore, Volume 17, 1929'' pecongress.org.pk. Includes brief mention of the monthly magazine [http[Khyber Ropeway Company|Khyber Ropeway]].*[https://wwwarchive.org/details/TheEmpireForestryHandBook/page/n15 ''The Empire Forestry Hand Book 1930''] Includes India. Archive.org*[https://archive.org/searchdetails/ForestResearchInIndia ''Forest Research In India'' 1935-36]. The one volume also contains**[https://archive.php?query=org/stream/ForestResearchInIndia/Forest%22the20research%20indian20in%20forester20India#page/n273/mode/2up 1936-37]**[https://archive.org/stream/ForestResearchInIndia/Forest%2220research%20AND20in%20mediatype%3Atexts "The Indian Forester"20India#page/n579/mode/2up 1937-38] covering a period between 1875 and 1905 can be found at **[https://archive.org/stream/ForestResearchInIndia/Forest%20research%20in%20India#page/n681/mode/2up 1937-38 Part II Provincial Reports] Archive. Many indiduals are mentioned in the included Extracts from Official Gazettesorg
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