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investigative staff capable of carrying out research work on an 

 independent basis. The details of this scheme will be found in 

 the body of the report. 



Finally, a system of independent inspection is required for 

 correlating the various activities of the Research offices and 

 insuring the maintenance of uniform efficiency throughout, as 

 well as keeping the directive staff and the Advisory Board fully 

 and immediately informed of the progress of the work on the 

 various projects. This I conceive to be somewhat in the nature 

 of an independent audit, and propose an inspection service 

 responsible only to the Director and Advisory Board without 

 executive function. Such an inspection service will form the 

 bond of unity between the various other units or main divisions 

 of the entire administration, and is absolutely essential to the 

 proper correlation of the work of the entire department. 



The ideal of this administration, based upon world-wide experi- 

 ence, should be the establishment of Experiment Stations suit- 

 ably equipped and distributed, which stations should be developed 

 to cooperate with the administrative staff in the training of admin- 

 istrative officers in technical duties by evolution from experiment 

 stations alone, into staff colleges. This development will insure, 

 (1) the minimum of expense, and (2) the maximum of coordi- 

 nation with the administrative work of the Forestry Branch, 

 which taken together should produce maximum efficiency. This 

 evolution must naturally be extended over a considerable period 

 of years. Its course will depend entirely upon the progress of 

 forestry in general throughout the Canadian forests, and also 

 upon the public support granted the Forestry Branch in the exten- 

 sion of scientific forestry methods to the Forest Reserves, and the 

 building up of a forest personnel on a basis of training and fitness 

 for forest work. It should not be anticipated, however, that any 

 development of training facilities for which the research office may 

 be responsible will compensate for defective machinery or prin- 

 ciples in the selection of forest employes. This is not a reason- 

 able supposition, and the elaboration of training facilities through 

 the investigation office should be expected to follow, not precede, 

 reform in methods of appointment in the forest reserve staff." 



One of the features of the organization described above, which 

 is somewhat novel in its composition, is the Advisory Board. This 



