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*[https://www.spink.com//lot-description.aspx?id=100816 Medals of Major C.G. ´Micky´ Merton], 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 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".
*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. s-asian.cam.ac.uk
*[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
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*[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.
*[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://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. 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 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".
*[http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-08-19/pune/41424901_1_books-digitisation-process-entire-library "Forest department library to go online"] by Ananya Dutta, August 19, 2013 Times of India .The digital books will be available at [http://www.mahaforest.nic.in/index.php Maharashtra Forest Department]
===Historical books online===
*Various editions of the monthly magazine [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%22the%20indian%20forester%22%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts ''The Indian Forester''] covering a period between 1875 and 1905 can be found at archive.org. Additionally, most of the editions Volume 1, 1876 to Volume 33 , 1907 are available to download as a pdf files from [[Online books#Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset|Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]], located under “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/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/FortyYearsAmongTheWildAnimalsOfIndi ''Forty Years Among The Wild Animals Of India From Mysore To The Himalayas''] by F C Hicks 1910 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 S Eardley-Wilmot, Late Inspector General of Forests to the Government of India 1910. Archive.org. He joined the Forest Service in 1873.
*[https://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.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284797 ''Wild Animals In Central India''] by A A Dunbar Brander 1923. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284797 Archive.org version]. The author was a Conservator of Forests in the Central Provinces.
*[https://archive.org/details/CameraTigerland ''With A Camera In Tiger Land''] by F W Champion 1928 (first published 1927) Archive.org. The author was in the Imperial Forest Service of India, a keen naturalist and photographer.
