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imposed upon us. A saving here or the making of a profit 

 there means that there will be just so much more avail- 

 able for opening up needed projects elsewhere. And the 

 demonstration by the Government of the financial profits which 

 can be made from forestry in China, will be decidedly our most 

 telling argument. If we cannot put forestry in China on a 

 financially profitable basis, our work is doomed at the outset 

 to severe limitation; but I am convinced that it is distinctly 

 practicable, and that it will be our own fault if we fail. 



Minor Activities. 



In the paragraphs above, I have discussed the main lines 

 along which our work will probably lie. There are other 

 problems which I would have liked to discuss, especially that 

 which has to do with protection, but the article has already 

 become of undue length. Certain minor activities, however, 

 which have been already undertaken and are now in full swing, 

 may be mentioned. Among these are the translation into Chinese 

 of elementary but thoroughly reliable text-books and reference 

 books on forestry — for up to the present time forestry literature 

 in Chinese is almost if not quite non-existent; the preparation 

 of an English-Chinese glossary of technical terms used in 

 forestry, in order that such practice may be kept uniform ; the 

 preparation of a check list (or dictionary) of Chinese forest 

 trees, with their botanical and local names, their habitat, etc.; 

 the beginning of a forest map of China, an unending task but 

 none the less necessary ; the collection of wood specimens, of 

 a forest herbarium, of minor forest products, etc. All such 

 work, while perhaps from one point of view of minor importance, 

 has in the aggregate a very great influence in helping the Forest 

 Service to accomplish the task it has been set to do : viz., to 

 manage and increase the forest resources of the country so as to 

 improve the comfort, prosperity and well-being of its inhabitants 

 present and to come. 



