ORGANISATION OF THE CHINESE FOREST SERVICE. IIQ 



less useless for our purpose until they have been collected and 

 correlated, and so made available. Obviously, also, such 

 information is necessary before we can be in a proper position 

 to train new personnel. 



It was to accomplish these duties that the Division of 

 Investigation was organised. It has proceeded actively with its 

 work, and already a considerable amount of most useful data 

 has been made available. 



Reforestation Division. 



This, at present, is the executive branch of the Forest Service 

 responsible for the economical and successful carrying out of all 

 reforestation projects, including the establishment and care of 

 nurseries, collection of seeds in large quantities, shipment of 

 seeds and plants, transplanting to permanent locations in the 

 hills, etc. It is the work of this division which will attract most 

 public attention, and in many ways it is the climax of all of the 

 other activities of the Forest Service, at least until it becomes 

 possible to place existing forests under technical forest manage- 

 ment. This will be referred to later on in this article. For the 

 present, at least, all the other divisions will be indirectly but 

 largely engaged in helping to make it possible for the Re- 

 forestation Division to do its work on a large scale, successfully 

 and economically. The success of the Forest Service will, as it 

 should, be judged largely by the success of this division, and, 

 therefore, too much care cannot be spent in supplying it with a 

 scientifically sound ground-work (the work of the Division of 

 Investigation), and in assigning to it the best possible personnel 

 wherever such personnel can be secured. It would be a fatal 

 mistake to regard each reforestation project as distinct and 

 separate in itself. They must be all grouped in one division 

 under a single chief, who, under the director-general of the 

 Forest Service and the two co-directors, will be responsible for 

 the success or failure of them all. Otherwise unnecessary and 

 undesirable duplication of experimental work will be sure to 

 result — the same failures will continue to be made in each 

 project, and what is learned in one place will not readily be 

 available for other projects. Only thus will we be enabled to 

 make the widest and most practicable use of the knowledge we 

 gain from our failures and our successes. Moreover, by having 

 all such projects directly under the constant supervision of a 



