During the last year the Survey issued reviled maps of Harford
County; soil maps of Carroll and Charles Counties; and completed the
reports on the coals of Maryland, the fire clays of Maryland, and the
Silurian deposits of the State. Report on the soil survey of Carroll
County was also completed as well as special reports on numerous minor
matters.

The work of the Survey is essentially that of bureau of informa-
tion. Each year it distributes about four thousand volumes and pamphlets,
about five thousand maps, and makes several thousand manuscript re-
ports on special matters dealing with the physical features and mineral
deposits of the State. To supply up-to-date information it is necessary
to continue and revise earlier surveys of different areas and. mineral)
products of the State.

STATE DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY.
Advisory Board of Forestry, Calvert Building.

Ex-Officio Members:

President J. H. U., Frank J. Goodnow................................Baltimore
Edward B. Mathews, State Geologist,.................. -................. Baltimore

Appointed by the Governor (terms expire 1928) :
Robert Garrett.............................................................................................Baltimore
Norman JameB...............................................................................................Catonsville
George L. Wood.................................................Baltimore

State Forester:
F. W. Besley................................................................................... Baltimore

The Governor appoints three members, two of whom shall be inter-
ested in the advancement of forestry and one a practical lumberman,
who, with the President of Johns Hopkins University and the State
Geologist shall constitute the Board.

The terms of those first appointed are until 'the first Monday in '
May, 1924, and thereafter for two years from the first Monday in May.
Ch. 29,1922.

The Department of Forestry was created and organized to protect
and develop the valuable timber and tree products of the State, and
to carry on a campaign of education and to instruct counties, towns,
corporations and individuals as to the advantages and necessity of
protecting from fire and other enemies the timber lands of the State.
While the power of the Forest 'Department rests with the Regents of
the University, acting through the Advisory Board, the detail work
is in the hands and under the management of the State Forester,
who is secretary of the Board, and all correspondence and inquiries
should be addressed to him at the Calvert Building, Baltimore.

The State Forester has studied the timber interests of each of
the twenty-three counties in detail and the statistics and Informa-
tion collected are published for free distribution, accompanied by a
valuable timber map to all who may apply. He will co-operate with
counties, towns, corporations and individuals, in preparing plans for
the protection, management and replacement of trees, woodlots and
timber tracts under an agreement that the party obtaining such assist-
ance pay at least the field expenses of the men employed. An important
work of the Forester is to use means to prevent and to extinguish
forest fires which are liable to destroy annually thousands of dollars'