124 AN AUSTRALIAN STUDY OF AMERICAN FORESTRY 
Forest libraries are attached to District Forester’s and Supervisor’s 
offices. They carry forestry books approved by the library committee at 
Washington, the publications of the forest service and such periodicals as 
“The Forest Quarterly,” “Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters,” 
“ Botanical Gazette,” ete. 
A collection of photographs illustrating forest conditions and adminis- 
trative methods on the national forests and elsewhere is maintained in these 
libraries. 
Forest service publications are supplied also to rangers, and to all officers 
for their office files and personal use. 
The United States of America Forest Service publishes a large number 
-of bulletins on forestry matters generally, both for propagandist purposes and 
as scientific records. i 
Suggestions of subjects on which publications might be prepared are 
welcomed from all members of the forest service. 
“Tf the subject relates to investigative work or involves the 
compilation of data, it will be referred to the district investigative 
committee ; if to administrative work, authorisation may be sought 
from the forester to prepare it.” : 
An endeavour is made to solve the difficulties of properly assigning 
credits for articles. The following is a genera] statement of the policy 
adopted :— 
(1.) Publications embody primarily the work of the Forest Service, 
not of individuals. 
(2.) Results which have been gathered by individuals belong not to 
the individual, but to the Forest Service. 
(3.) The Forester has a right to expect all members of the service 
to contribute willingly and to any extent towards making 
any and all publications as good as possible. 
(4.) The giving of proper credits is a stimulus to good work. 
(5.) The man who has actually put most into the publication should 
have principal credit for it. 
6.) Supervision of work, though it may actually make suitable for 
pervision 8. a 4 : 
publication the completed report, does not entitle the one 
supervising the work to assume credit as the author. 
(7.) When a man undertakes a publication concerning work of which 
he has charge, the necessity of acknowledgments is a matter 
of administrative judgment. 
(2.) It is desirable to give credit for original work without detracting 
from the value of the publication through minute or excessive 
acknowledgments or interruptions of the continuity of 
presentation. : 
Carter XIV. 
FOREST INVESTIGATIONS. 
The inapplicability of European forest data to American conditions made 
it inevitable that the United States of America Forest Service should under- 
take quite early a comprehensive study of American forest problems. 
Research and progress, in both forestry and forest industry. march hand 
in hand. It was realised that the only possible basis for a successful develop- 
ment was an accurate and detailed knowledge of the facts. Empirical practice 
was a delusion and a snare. 
