126 IRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTIISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



it. There are a few institutions, especially the university of 

 Nanking, making strong and most praiseworthy efforts to 

 train up the kind of men needed for forest work in China, 

 but unfortunately the funds, and especially the staff of in- 

 structors, are severely limited. 



For the immediate present we are not in a position to con- 

 cern ourselves with higher technical forestry education. We 

 recognise the importance, or rather the necessity, of maintain- 

 ing always a moderate-sized corps of highly-trained technical 

 foresters, but it is wholly impracticable to attempt to give such 

 training here and now. In the first place, we neither have 

 nor can obtain the instructors, the buildings, or the equipment ; 

 and, in the second place, the cost would be high out of all 

 proportion to the number of graduates. For several years to 

 come it will be necessary to adopt the far more economical 

 course of obtaining the highly-trained foresters we need from 

 among the graduates of forest schools abroad (sending thereto 

 properly prepared young Chinese under Government scholar- 

 ships) rather than to attempt to educate them here. In time, of 

 course, this situation will change, and we should look forward 

 eventually, I hope soon, towards seeing forestry education 

 given in all its branches in China ; but that need not concern 

 us just now. 



Clerical Division. 



This division, as its name implies, has charge of all clerical 

 work in the central office of the Forest Service — copyists, 

 translators, typists, clerks, labourers, and non-technical personnel 

 of all kinds. 



So much for the activities of the six divisions into which the 

 Forest Service has now been organised. Later on, as the 

 personnel of the Service increases, as more funds become 

 available, and when, as a natural consequence, the scope of its 

 activities enlarges, we hope that two other lines of work will 

 attain sufficient importance to justify their recognition in the 

 divisional organisation. Such may be called, tentatively, the 

 proposed Division of Forest Management and the proposed 

 Division of Co-operation. 



The Division of Forest Management, if it should be 

 established, will concern itself with the administration, by 

 conservative technical methods of forestry, of existing public 



