and taxation, and surveys of forest resources are incompletely and 

 locally covered in 38 projects. Three studies are listed in which sta- 

 tistics of production and prices of forest products are being compiled. 

 Comparisons of the amount of research being devoted to difterent 

 parts of forest endeavor on the basis of number of projects are not 

 entirely satisfactory owing to the wide variation in the comprehensive- 

 ness of the different projects as listed. Greater standardization in this 

 respect will undoubtedly be noticeable when a revision of the Bulletm 

 is made. On the present basis, however, such comparisons of the 

 broad phases of forest research may be made which are interesting 

 and sufficiently reliable to justify drawing conclusions. Silviculture 

 proper leads with 131 projects, exclusive of forestation, which has 8G 

 additional. Forest utilization is second with 109 projects. Economic 

 and industrial investigations have G2 ; protection 57 ; grazing and for- 

 est zoology 36 ; ecological studies 23 ; and distribution and identifica- 

 tion 16. On the whole the distribution of the research is surprisingly 

 well balanced when it is considered that it has developed among so 

 many agencies without any coordinating leadership. The bulk of the 

 study is quite naturally being expended on the problems of which the 

 solution is in demand and the application evident and immediate. 



Within these large groups, certain lines of work may be found 

 which do not appear to be receiving their share of study. Farm wood- 

 lands, which are going to play srj important a part in supplying the 

 hardwood of the future, are the subject of only 3 projects. The actual 

 amount of study on the subject is undoubtedly larger than this figure 

 indicates, but still it is smaller than its importance demands. Economic 

 investigations, with 62 projects, are still in an embryonic stage of their 

 development. The projects listed by different agencies indicate the 

 variation in the interpretations of what fI^.ouM be included as research 

 in forest economics. For example, forest taxation is the subject of 

 only one listed study. Land classification and forest surveys are very 

 incompletely represented and there is undoubtedly a large volume of 

 work being done along these lines which has not been included in the 

 Ihilletin because it was not considered of research character by the 

 organizations responsible for it. 



The length of the text discussion of the projects frequently is not 

 proportional to their importance but apparently depends somewhat 

 upon the inclination of the agency which prepared them. Variations 

 from a few lines to over a page m^-^' be found. This is not surprising 



