| RefNo | EC/1901/11 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XII, 131 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Schlich, Sir William: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Principal Professor of Forestry in the Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill. Dr Schlich is well known for the impetus which he has recently given to the study of Forestry in England. Between 1871 and 1880 he was Conservator of Forests in Sind, Bengal, and the Punjab successively, and in 1881 he was appointed Inspector-General of Forests to the Government of India. From 1885 to 1889 he was employed specially in England in organising the first English Forest School; and in 1889 he was appointed to his present office. He is a man in thorough sympathy with Science, and has attained great eminence in that branch of it to which he has devoted most of his life-work. Besides his well-known and comprehensive 'Manual of Forestry,' he is the author of the following papers: - Various Articles on Scientific Forestry, in the Allgemeine Forst und Jagd Zeitung, 1864-1867; 'The Pyinkado Forests of Aracan,' 1869; a Series of Reports on the Forests of Bengal and Assam, 1872-1875 [in 1875 he was honrary editor of 'The Indian Forester,' which is the leading monthly journal of Forestry]; 'The Forests of Darjeeling, Central Provinces, Hyderabad Assigned Districts, Chota Nagpore,' 1882-1885; 'Afforestation in Great Britain and Ireland, Yield Tables for the Scotch Pine, the Douglas Fir, Effects of Forests on Climate, Forestry in the Colonies and India' (Trans of Colonial Institute, 1886-1889); 'Forestry Education' (Trans Royal Arboricultural Soc, Scotland, 1897); 'Timber Supply of the British Empire' (Imperial Institute Gazette, 1897). |
| Proposers | Dietrich Brandis; Richard Strachey; C B Clarke; John Lubbock; Joseph D Hooker; A G Greenhill; G M Minchin; William T Thiselton-Dyer; H M Ward; Richard Temple; A H Church; I B Balfour; H G Seeley |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2964 | Schlich; Sir; William (1840 - 1925) | 1840 - 1925 |