scientific divisions or institutions further than the view expressed above, that the final decision as to the wisdom of an expenditure for scientific purpose within an appropriation should be vested in the head of the scientific agency rather than in a superior financial official. This view does not imply, however, criticism of the plan of organizing within the general financial scheme such additional scientific supervision and support as is found in the Illinois Board of Conservation and Natural Resources. The operation of this board seems to have been an undoubted success. On the whole, there seems to be ground for belief that prevailing doubt as to the wisdom of central financial supervision will be dis-. pelled by a gradual process of mutual adjustment. It must not be forgotten that these systems of control are all very new, and that any substantial change is bound to cause a period of friction until the new relationships become habitual. Once this stage has been reached, the new system may operate as easily as the old. So far as the writer could judge, the Wisconsin plan of budget control is now universally accepted; but he is informed that during the first year of the existence of the Board of Public Affairs only two or three departments were willing to cooperate with it. The operation of the Illinois Code caused a great deal of friction and irritation during the first years of its existence; but the official who made written protest to the governor against the interference of the Department of Finance now believes in retrospect that he was wrong and that the powers of the finance department should be greater rather than less. In Illinois the writer found the scientific departments satisfied with the new system, and in several cases emphatic in their preference for it over the old. 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