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THE annual report of the Forest Research Branch, 1933, is issued with the “Report on Forest Administration for the year 1933 of the Federated Malay States” (a Supplement of the F.M.B. Government Gazette, June 15, 1934. F.M.S. Government Press). Research, under which is included education, has made considerable progress in the Forest Department of the Federated Malay States. A Forest School has been started much on the lines of the Rangers' School at Dehra Dun, India, “which has nearly half a century of good work behind it. The practical courses of the Malay School during the year under view included a forest reconnaissance in mountainous jungle in the State of Perak; it served the excellent purpose, among others, of acquainting the students with commercial tree forms not normally encountered in the lowland forests. An area of 2,400 acres of this hill forest in the Bubu reserve was explored and the enumeration work was conducted on more intensive lines than hitherto, both as regards composition of the crop and the possibility of commercial exploitation. This appears an excellent departure and the experience thus gained should be invaluable to all, whilst the work achieved will be of practical value. Research work is being carried on in sylviculture, where some interesting research work is being achieved, botanical, wood technology, timber testing, wood preservation and forest economy generally; while zoological, chemical and meteorological problems are being studied.
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Forest Research in the Malay States. Nature 135, 426 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135426b0
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