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FORESTRY APPOINTMENTS IN THE BRITISH ISLES, INDIAN EMPIRE, AND CROWN COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES. (All the posts mentioned in this list are pensionable except those marked *.) England. Office of HM. Woods and Forests. —New Forest, Alice Holt, Parkhurst and Bere—Deputy Surveyor, £920; Forest of Dean —Deputy Surveyor, £725; Forest of Dean —Assistant Deputy Surveyor and Consulting Forester to Commissioners, £425; Head of Forest School, £250.* Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. —Forestry Inspector, £300-£4OO. Oxford University (Department of Rural Economy). — Sibthorpian Professor of Rural Economy, £700;* Reader in Forestry,! £300.* India Office. —Director of Indian Forest Studies (now at Oxford University), £900. Cambridge University (Agricultural Department). —Reader in Forestry, £400.* University College of North Wales (Agricultural Department). —Lecturer in Forestry, £300.* Leeds University (Agricultural Department). —Lecturer in Agriculture, Botany, and Forestry, £225.* Armstrong College (Agricultural Department). —Lecturer in Forestry, £220.* Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. —Lecturer in Estate Management and Forestry, £300* (resident). Scotland. Edinburgh University and East of Scotland College of Agriculture. —University Lecturer in Forestry, £400*; University Lecturer in Forest Botany and Forestry Lecturer at the Agricultural College, £260-£280.* West of Scotland Agricultural College. —Lecturer in Forestry, £350.* North of Scotland College of Agriculture. —-Lecturer in Forestry, £350.* Ireland. Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction. —Chief Forestry Officer, £600; Assistant Forestry Inspector, £300-£4OO. Indian Forestry Service (Imperial Branch). (N.B. —In reckoning the salaries the Indian rupee has been taken as equivalent to Is. 4d. sterling.) Inspector-General of Forests, £2,120. Assistant Inspector-General of Forests, . Two Chief Conservators (Burma and Central Provinces), £1,720. Twenty Conservators—Grade 1, £1,520; Grade 11, £1,360; Grade 111, £1,200. 184 Deputy and Assistant Conservators; five Foreign Service appointments; six officers employed at the Forest Research Institute and College, Dehra Dun (these draw a local allowance in addition to their grade pay)—£3o4, rising by annual increments of £32 to £560; thereafter by annual increments of £40 to £1,000. The appointments of Conservator and Deputy and Assistant Conservator are allotted to the various provinces as follows: Burma, 65; Madras, 28; Bombay, 27; Central Provinces, 24; Bengal, 11; United Provinces, 19; Punjab, 12; and Eastern Bengal and Assam, 18. Cetlon. Conservator £1,050-£1,200; Deputy Conservator, £750-£900; Deputy Conservator, £600--£750; Assistant Conservators, Grade I (three), £400-£500; Assistant Conservators, Grade II (four), £300-£350. East Africa Protectorate. Curator of Forests, £500-£7OO (duty pay, £50|); Verderers (two), £300; Verderers (one), £200; Foresters (thirteen), £120. Uganda. Superintendent of Forests (vacant); Assistant Superintendent, £200-£250. . Southern Nigeria. Conservator, £1,000 (duty pay, £200j); Deputy Conservator, £600-£ BOO (duty pay, £120|); Assistant Conservators, Ist grade (three), £500-£7OO (duty pay, £60|); Assistant Conservators, 2nd grade (six), £300-£4OO. Gold Coast. Conservator, £800 (duty pay, £160J); Assistant Conservators (three), £300t-£4OO. Federated Malay States. Conservator, £1,020-£1,200; Deputy Conservators, Grade I (two), £660b-£840; Deputy Conservators, Grade II (two), £540-£660; Assistant Conservators, Grade I (five), £360-£480; Assistant Conservators, Grade II (five), £300-£360.

t This post is at present held by Sir W. Schlich, K.C.1.E., &0., with the honorary title of Professor of Forestry. j Duty pay is not drawn by the officer while on furlough.