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===Records Online===
 
*[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
 
 
 
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==External links==
*[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://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]
*[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".
 
===Historical books online===
*[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
* Selected 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. Many indiduals are mentioned in the included Extracts from Official Gazettes
 
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