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Red Cedar, Cedrela toona, yields beautifully figured wood near 

 the root and the branches making it very valuable for veneers. It 

 is fragrant, moderately hard, easily worked, and termite proof 

 which allows its use for cabinets, wardrobes, doors, paneling and 

 other interior fittings. Rosewood, Coachwood, and Blackwood 

 are three other species of considerable importance especially for 

 cabinet purposes. 



As is well known, the part of Indo-China, 



Forestry embracing Cochin-China, Cambodia, An- 



in nam, Tonquin, and Laos, is a colony of 



Indo-China France since 1883 and in part earlier in the 



sixties. One would have expected that the 



well-organized forest department of the home country would have 



had an influence which would have early led to some attempt at 



forest control, but it was not until 1894 that in Cochin-China 



some kind of a control was attempted and not until 1901 that a 



real forest service under the Department of Agriculture with a 



director and four assistants and agents placed in charge of allotted 



territories was inaugurated. 



Professor Guyot, in a short note reveals now a most curious 

 condition of affairs in regard to this service. The organization 

 was on January i, 1912 broken up by the governor-general, and 

 instead five independent services, one in each of the five provinces 

 were instituted, apparently without any authorization from the 

 President of the Republic or the Minister of Colonies. The 

 former bureau, however, remains as a board of control and to 

 unify the work of the five local bureaus. It is not quite clear, what 

 the powers of the bureau of control is and whether the arrange- 

 ment approaches the excellent idea of the district offices of the 

 U. S. Forest Sennce, or indeed whether it is administratively 

 wrong or merely the act of the governor ethically reprehensible. 



Another conflict or doubt seems to exist in the handling of the 

 revenue derived from forest exploitation and as to the ownership 

 of the forest areas. In Paris it is supposed that the colonial for- 

 ests are property of the State of France, and hence the State 

 has the independent disposal of the revenues, even though it 

 may as a rule leave them to the colonies for their development. 

 At present, Guyot admits, the question is not pressing for the 



