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for assistance to the Government in experimental tree planting in 

 that reserve. In each case the object of these permits is to allow 

 the fullest use to be made of the land, consistent with its proper 

 maintenance as a forest reserve. 



Honorary Forest Rangers. 



Another departure in 1914 was the appointment of several 

 Volunteer (or Honorary) Forest Rangers, to assist the Board in 

 giving better protection to certain of the Forest Reserves. To 

 this position for the Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve, Oahu, 

 were appointed Messrs. Charles L. Beal and E. H. Hippie, of 

 Honolulu; for the districts of Hilo and Puna, Hawaii, Mr. W. H. 

 Shipman, of Hilo. The appointment of Mr. Beal was made prim- 

 arily on account of the interest he -has shown in repairing and 

 extending the trails on the mountains back of Honolulu. It was 

 felt that it would mutually be a good thing if the Board had Mr. 

 Beal's assistance and cooperation. 



Surrender of Forest Land. 



In June, 1914, under the terms of Chapter 28 of the Revised 

 Laws of Hawaii, the Honorable George R. Carter formally turned 

 over to the Board for a period of five years the custody and con- 

 trol of a tract of 132 acres of forest land owned by him at the 

 head of Manoa Valley, Oahu, within the Honolulu Watershed 

 Forest Reserve. This is the second time in the history of the Divi- 

 sion of Forestry that such a transfer has been made, the other 

 instance being certain lands on the windward side of Maui that 

 were similarly surrendered by the Alexander & Baldwin interests 

 for a period of years, in 1906. Mr. Carter's action is more im- 

 portant in that it confirms a precedent, than in the actual transfer 

 itself. With a better system of protecting and administering its 

 forest reserves the Territory would doubtless be in receipt of many 

 applications from private owners of forest land requesting that 

 the management of their lands be taken over by the Board. 



Publications. 



With the exception of the Biennial Report of the Division 

 for 1911 and 1912, issued in March, 1913, the only publication 

 of the Division of Forestry in its regular series has been Botanical 

 Bulletin No. 2: "List of Hawaiian Names of Plants," hy Joseph 

 F. Rock, Consulting Botanist of the Board. This pamphlet was 

 issued in June, 1913, and gives the Hawaiian and scientific name 

 for all the indigenous and many introduced trees and shrubs. The 

 data there collected are taken from Mr. Rock's comprehensive con- 

 tribution to Hawaiian botany entitled "The Indigenous Trees of 

 the Hawaiian Islands," a volume of 518 pages, fully illustrated 



