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tween the chief of Research and the chief of administrative branches 

 on proposed research projects, allotments, assignments of personnel, 

 etc., will be referred to the Forester for decision. Instructions to 

 district foresters regarding the application of the results of research 

 to National Forest work will be issued through the administrative 

 branch concerned. Similar correspondence with persons outside of the 

 Forest Service will ordinarily be handled by the Branch of Research, 

 but the approval of the administrative branch concerned will be 

 obtained in important cases. 



To further correlate research and administrative activities, the 

 Branch of Research will be placed under the general supervision of 

 Assistant Forester W. B. Greeley. It will, however, be entirely distinct 

 from and independent of the Branch of Silviculture. 



The new branch will have the same functions in matters of general 

 Service policy, personnel changes, approval of Forest working plans, 

 approval of boundary changes, etc., which are discharged by the other 

 branches. 



The following Service activities, with the organization necessary to 

 conduct them as indicated specifically in each instance, are transferred 

 to the Branch of Research : 



1. Silvicultural investigations, including the present office of in- 

 vestigations in the Branch of Silviculture in its entirety and studies 

 of State forest conditions now conducted by the office of State co- 

 operation. This transfer extends to the sections of computation and 

 compilations, the Forest Service library, and the work conducted by 

 the Forest Service in forest pathology, in cooperation with the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry. 



2. The forest products laboratory at Madison, Wis. 



3 Industrial investigations, hitherto conducted as an office in the 

 Branch of Products. 



4. The study of the lumber industry, a special project hitherto con- 

 ducted in part by the Branch of Silviculture and in part by the 

 Branch of Products ; and all other studies related to lumbering. 



5. Studies in fire protection, including only work of a distinctly in- 

 vestigative character in this field, hitherto handled by the Branch of 

 Operation. This excludes all matters of instruction, organization, cor- 

 rect methods in the protection of National Forests, and other work 

 of an administrative nature. 



6. Statistical investigations, including the statistical work on the 

 production of forest products, lumber prices, stumpage prices, etc., 

 now collected and compiled by the office of industrial investigations, 

 and any other statistical investigations conducted by the Forest Service. 



The foregoing does not involve the transfer of units of organization 

 now conducting statistical work primarily for administrative purposes 

 to the Branch of Research. It will be the duty of that branch, how- 

 ever, to correlate and supervise the statistical work of the Forest Serv- 



