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should not overlook the increasingly insistant demands of the local 

 population. Little will be available for export beyond teak and orna- 

 mental ivoods, aside from paper pulp and tannin extracts. For, as 

 Eardley-Wilmot points out, the objective of Indian forestry should be : 

 "To supply the requirements of its population in forest products, to 

 protect the water supply of the country, and to afford help in its indus- 

 trial development." In the past perhaps too much stress has been laid 

 upon the financial success of forest management and a happily phrased 

 note of warning is sounded : "As in the case of European countries, the 

 forest management should, as it always has, result in profit, but this 

 profit should be subsidiary to the main objects in view. . . . The 

 estimates of reliable and experienced experts are vain if it is insisted 

 on that an increased revenue should precede an increased expenditure. 

 . . ." A lack of sufificient appropriations for needed improvements 

 thirty or forty years ago clearly resulted in the retardation of forest 

 development and in the loss of efficiency of the personnel, even where 

 sickness and death did not result because of unsuitable quarters in a 

 tropical country. 



Perhaps the greatest task which fell on the shoulders of Eardley- 

 Wilmot as Inspector General was the betterment of the pay Of the 

 superior force, whose efficiency and integrity could be best secured by 

 a salary commensurate with the social rank to be maintained. To re- 

 duce the salary below this point must be a danger point in colonial 

 administration. "An eminent Viceroy once expressed horrified surprise 

 that every public service in India was pressing for better conditions of 

 service ; the mental shock might have been softened had he recalled 

 Beckv Sharp's remark that it is easy to be honest on 5,000 pounds a 

 year." . . . ! 



It is something to succeed in forest administration anywhere, but 

 think of the difficulty of succeeding with a tropical climate and the 

 people of the Far East as permittees ! Let's dofif our hats to Eardley- 

 Wilmot and his coworkers. 



T. S. W., Jr. 



Shade Trees: Characteristics, Adaptation, Diseases, and Care. By 

 G. E. Stone. Bulletin 170, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. Amherst, Mass. 1916. Pp. 264. 



This is more than a popular treatise ; indeed it is an unusually com- 

 plete, all-comprehensive publication on a subject on which lately rriuch 

 has been published. The author, for many years connected with the 



