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GENERAL, SURVEY. 17friendly official (Mr. Yen Hsiu) himself soon after leftthe Board, and further progress is for the presentblocked. A like fact seemed to threaten the effort tocome to an understanding with the accomplished head ofthe new Bureau of Terminology (Ming Tz u Kuan), Dr.Yen Fu, who promised a cordial welcome to whateverassistance might be given in the important and difficulttask of revising and enlarging the new Chinese technicalnomenclature. Soon after the Chinese New Year Dr.Yen was promoted to some position in the new NavyDepartment, and thus the man perhaps best qualifiedto undertake the systematization of Chinese terminologyappeared to be lost to that work, but itproved laterthat his naval post was merely an "advisory" one.These two cases illustrate what has already been saidof the transitory and the incidental nature of Chineseappointments and suggest an explanation of the fatallack of continuity of plan. During the years since theconference considerable progress has been made, asthere advised, in the organization in many provinces ofprovincial councils, comprising most of the missions, andin this the Chinese have seemed most ready to cooperate.A still more strongly marked trend is toward thefederation of different branches of the same generalchurch order. It must be the task of the future to coordinate these centripetal and centrifugal tendencies intoa common system. In this -connection may be mentioned the greatly increased interest on the part of theleading home Boards in the actual working of theirmissions abroad. Never before were there so manydeputations of inspection, investigation, and reorganization as now, never such careful and intelligent inquiryinto the causes of past failure and diagnosis of symptoms of present weakness. Instances of educational andother union are becoming so numerous that few cankeep track of them all. Both in division of the fieldand in practical educational cooperation West China