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On the Stamp
The main building of the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, on a 2 annas stamp.
The 4th World Forestry Congress
The 4th World Forestry Congress, the first held outside Europe, opened at Dehra Dun on 11 December 1954, and India issued this stamp on the day. The Congress met at the Forest Research Institute, founded in 1906, whose great red-brick main building, opened in 1929 in its wide grounds below the Mussoorie hills, is the one shown on the stamp.
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