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with Sir Dietrich Brandis and others. He is said to have inspired

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'' stories.Barton, G. A. (2004). Empire forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism. ''Cambridge University Press'', p.33 Berthold Ribbentrop was Inspector-General of Forests to the Government of India from 1885. In 1900 he wrote ''Forestry in British India'', in which he wrote that he was coming to the end of his career. He described the early lack of forestry expertise among the British administrators of India, and wrote

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