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its legislative representatives need to understand 

 that such persons and such institutions cannot be ad- 

 ministered successfully on the same basis as asylums 

 and penal institutions. A reasonable generosity in 

 tlie management of funds is essential, and those re- 

 sponsible for investigation should be given the utmost 

 freedom in the use of the funds. The accounting 

 sliould come at the end, instead of being laid out in 

 literal detail in advance. 



Better organization is needed of the natural-re- 

 source studies. There is need of a systematic effort, 

 through conference and cooperation, to bring all 

 these agencies into touch and to assemble, analyze and 

 put into the most usable form all the information 

 that is being collected. Such a coordination might 

 be called a Natural Eesources Survey, whose most 

 definite antecedent is the conservation movement. 

 It might be given permanent status in a State Acad- 

 emy of Science. 



8. It may be worth while to point out the desira- 

 bility of keeping the administrative and regulatory 

 function separate, as far as possible, from the educa- 

 tional and investigational function. The executive 

 departments that enter into the Governor's cabinet 

 should not be permitted to encroach on the educa- 

 tional and investigational functions. The Council of 

 Farms and Markets has very closely attained that 

 status. As a principle of government especially ap- 

 plicable to the Council of Farms and Markets, it 

 should be recognized that more responsive and better 

 service will result from responsible individual heads 



