Harry George Champion
British geographer, forestry officer, botanist and entomologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir Harry George Champion CIE was a Geographer and forest officer in British India who created a classification of the forest types of India and Burma. Champion was the son of British entomologist George Charles Champion. He studied at New College, Oxford, and obtained a degree in chemistry in 1912 and then studied botany and forestry under William Schlich. He joined the Indian Forest Service in 1915 and became a silviculturist at the Forest Research Institute at Dehradun staying there until 1936 before becoming a Conservator in the United Provinces. He left India in 1939 and became a Professor of Forestry at Oxford, succeeding Robert Scott Troup. Troup had offered him a position at the Imperial Forestry Institute in 1924 but Champion chose not to join it. He married Troup's secretary Crystal Parsons.
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- A preliminary survey of the forest types of India and Burma (1936) (182)
- General silviculture for India (1968) (62)
- The Canadian Experience With Recall And Diary Methods In Consumer Expenditure Surveys (1974) (21)
- Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford (1944) (17)
- Colonial Forest Administration (1941) (15)
- Elimination of machine transient effects during plastic strain rate changes (1983) (13)
- The Problem of the Pure Teak Plantation (1932) (12)
- Indian forest ecology. A comprehensive survey of vegetation and its environment in the Indian subcontinent [Vols. I & II]. (1960) (9)
- Forestry and its Career Opportunities. (1953) (7)
- Ecological Principles Involved in the Practice of Forestry (1944) (7)
- Forestry in New Zealand (1959) (6)
- Manual of Indian Silviculture (1939) (6)
- Second interim report on the progress of investigations into the origin of twisted fibre in Pinus longifolia, Roxb. (1930) (6)
- Manual of general silviculture for India. (1948) (6)
- Douglas of the Fir (1949) (5)
- The Influence of the Hand of Man on the Distribution of Forest Types in the Kumaon Himalya (1923) (5)
- Twisted Trees (1933) (5)
- Origin of Seed (1928) (4)
- Our Forests (1923) (4)
- Genetics And Forestry (1946) (4)
- The effect of defoliation on the increment of teak saplings. (1934) (4)
- The Future of the New Forest (1948) (3)
- Erosion in the Punjab, its Causes and Cure (1946) (2)
- Observations on Some Effects of Fires in the Chir ( Pinus longifolia ) Forests of the West Almora Division (1919) (2)
- The Effect of Size on Germination and Development of Beed of Sal (Shorea Robusta) (1928) (2)
- Notes on a Visit to the Pindari Glacier, Kumaon (1920) (2)
- European Silvicultural Research Part VIII- Increment Samples Plots (1933) (1)
- The Effect of Thinning out Multiple Shoots on Young Root-Stocks (1933) (1)
- Seasonal progress of height growth in trees (1934) (1)
- British Forest Trees (1947) (1)
- Seed Crop and Fertility of Anogeissus Latifolia (1934) (1)
- An investigation of certain factors concerning the resin-tapping industry in Pinus longifolia (1)
- The Artificial Regeneration of Tropical Evergreen Forests in South Bengal (1934) (0)
- European Silvicultural Research, Part VI- Artificial Regeneration (1933) (0)
- Preservation of the Kauri in New Zealand (1948) (0)
- Preservation of Noteworthy Trees (1932) (0)
- European Silvicultural Research Part 9- the Use of Statistical Methods (1933) (0)
- David Douglas : Botanist and Traveller (1949) (0)
- SILVICULTURAL RESEARCH IN INDIA; ITS ORGANIZATION, PROBLEMS AND METHODS (0)
- Text-Book of Silvicultural Systems (1952) (0)
- Recuperative Powers of Podocarpus Seedlings After Injury (1928) (0)
- Development of Wood-Using Industries (1960) (0)
- Prof. E. P. Stebbing (1960) (0)
- Indian Silviculture and Research over the Century (1975) (0)
- Forest protection in the North American West Coast forests. (1950) (0)
- Sal Germination in the United Provinoes (1927) (0)
- The Practical Significance of Forest Types (1929) (0)
- Abstracts of Indian Forest Literature Published during July to September 1936 (1936) (0)
- Tour Jotting in South Indian States and Coorg (1935) (0)
- The Milam Country of East Kumaon, U.P. (1967) (0)
- Mr. G. H. S. Wood (1957) (0)
- Comments upon Forest Bulletin No. 78 (1933) (0)
- Tree breeding and seed supplies in North-West America with special reference to Douglas fir Pseudotsuga taxifolia Brit. (1950) (0)
- Forestry in the United Kingdom (1959) (0)
- County Details of the Census of Woodlands, 1947–49 (1954) (0)
- Modern Developments in Forestry in the Western Circle, Uttar Pradesh (1974) (0)
- The Meaning of Crop Diameter and the Use of the Alingment Chart (1933) (0)
- The Kauri Tree in New Zealand (1949) (0)
- European Silvicultural Research: Part V, Silvicultural System and Natural Regeneration (1933) (0)
- Forest notes from Holland. (1950) (0)
- The Regeneration of Tropical Evergreen Forests (1936) (0)
- Census of Woodland Areas Less than Five Acres in Great Britain (1953) (0)
- The Inheritance of Growth from in Trees (1926) (0)
- Entomological notes on a tour of the Kumaon-Tibet Border in 1924; with descriptions of three new Rhopalocera by N. D. Riley (1926) (0)
- The Selection of Radii for Stump Analysis (1933) (0)
- Report on the management and exploitation of the forests of Ceylon. (1935) (0)
- University of Oxford School of Forestry (1955) (0)
- A Flying Visit to East Africa (1939) (0)
- Multiple Yield Tables for Deodar (1933) (0)
- Note on the Parasitic Fungus, Peridermium (1924) (0)
- European Silvicultural Research-Part II, Root Competition (1932) (0)
- Seed Selection in Forestry (1943) (0)
- Underplanting in Teak Plantations (1933) (0)
- Forestry Interests Forty Years Ago and To-day (1955) (0)
- A Test of the Precision of the Standard Indian Sample Plot Methods (1934) (0)
- The Regeneration of Tropical Evergreen Forests (Rain Forest) (1929) (0)
- Note on Dying off of Gmelina Arborea in Plantations (1932) (0)
- Progress in British Forestry (1959) (0)
- Notes on Forestry in the U. S. A. (1916) (0)
- Economic Aspects of Forestry (1957) (0)
- Tour Jottings in Madras (0)
- The Mode of Growth of Alstonia Scholaris, R. Br (1932) (0)
- North American Forestry (1951) (0)
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