Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford

Abstract

IN commenting in Nature of July 15, p. 94 on the 1942–43 report of the Imperial Forestry Institute, it is stated that there is difficulty in distinguishing between the respective parts played by the Imperial Forestry Institute and the University Department or School of Forestry. This is simply explained by the fact, set out at length in the 1937–38 report, that in 1938 they became a single organization supported jointly by the Colonies, the Forestry Commission, the University of Oxford and a few smaller contributors. At the same time, the information branch of the Institute was taken over by the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux to constitute a new Imperial Forestry Bureau which still works in close collaboration with the Institute. This latter change resulted in a transfer to the Bureaux of nearly all the original Dominion support for the Institute, leaving the Colonial Empire in a still more predominant position among the supporters of the Institute.