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rangers are now appointed except from the graduates of the 

 school) will start out equipped with a good working knowledge of 

 a hundred or more species. Besides, he is expected to carry to 

 his station with him, for ready reference, the set of samples fur- 

 nished him at the school. It is evident how much it will serve to 

 simplify questions of nomenclature and classification when scores 

 of rangers thus equipped are scattered through the provinces. 

 Especially will it contribute to familiarizing the inhabitants of 

 all provinces with the official names of the commoner woods. In 

 every region there are people who recognize positively certain 

 trees or timbers, but know them only by their local names. If 

 one of these "local experts" is told by a ranger, backed up by a 

 sample bearing a printed label, that the woods he knows, say, by 

 the Bikol or Bisaya name Barayung is officially and in commerce 

 called Tindalo, he will remember it and so much is gained for the 

 standardization of species names. And this alone, when one 

 remembers that Molave, for instance, has about forty recorded 

 local names, is no small matter. 



An almost equally valuable result, though an indirect one, of 

 the preparation of specimens for study has been the opportunity 

 for furnishing authentic specimens of a very large number of 

 species to inquirers of all kinds. The distribution of specimens, 

 which was begun, so to speak, merely incidentally, has grown to 

 such an extent that during the last few years an average of three 

 or four thousand hand specimens per year have been sold and 

 otherwise distributed. And these have gone out not only within 

 the Islands, but a great many to other countries, especially the 

 United States, England and Germany. 



