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434 MISCELLANEOUSthe northern prefecture? of Chekiang province allowing the territoryoccupied by our mission and the location of existing and proposedout-station work.It is hoped that enough copies of the out-station maps can beprepared so that each out-station can have- a map of its own district,each station can have a set of its own maps, the conference secretarycan have a complete tile for general committee use, and a full set canbe sent to the board. In addition to the preparation of these maps,several questionnaires were found necessary in order to get the factson which are based some of the detailed estimates found later in thisreport. In a similar way, curves have been plotted showing the rateof increase in the various departments of our work and in our workas a whole.A cli art for each station was preparedsll w in 8 byilsystem of circles with radii1increasing by 20 li the location and distancefrom the main station of each out-station ;asimilar chart showed the actual and relative time requiredto travel to each otit-station. Another system of chartsshowed the actual number of days required to supervise theout-station work of each station in accordance with auniform standard, the time varying for each field becauseof varying conditions of travel, varying distances, etc.This chart, of course, furnished a basis for determiningthe number of foreign or Chinese superintendents required.TheChprogress or development of each kindof work, evangelistic, educational or medical,in each station and for the mission as a whole, was shown bya system of curves indicating the development for the pastfifteen years. Several other similar devices were used tomake vivid actual conditions and the rate of progress. Inaddition to these charts and curves, several tables wereprepared: one showing for each station the number ofout-stations, the out-station work appropriations, the averagecost to the Board of out-stations, the number of proposednew out-stations required by the intensive policy in orderto work intensively the territory claimed and the estimatedcost of the new out-stations, also the increase in the foreignand Chinese evangelistic staff. Another table gives similarfacts regarding boys day schools both in the city and in theout-stations, the average cost to the mission, the number ofnew schools required, etc. In addition there was indicated