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PHILADELPHIA, PA., MAY, 1908. 



Probably there is no entomologist who can recall without 

 sadness or bitterness some favorable collecting- place wiped out 

 of existence by the extension of towns or cities, or by the re- 

 moval of woods and thickets. Even without mentioning the 

 necessity of forests as sources of lumber supply, as conservers 

 of moisture, as health-restoring agencies and as recreation- 

 areas, our fraternity ought readily to sympathize with those 

 who are doing what they can to save the few large tracts of 

 woodland which still remain in the eastern United States. 

 One of these is in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, 

 another is in the Southern Appalachians. Bills to acquire these 

 two areas as federal forest reservations are now before the 

 House of Representatives at Washington, and have been ap- 

 proved by the American Civic Association. At the present 

 writing these bills are in the hands of the Judiciary Commit- 

 tee of the House where, some fear, they will slumber undis- 

 turbed until the end of the session. 



Let all those who desire to see their country's natural re- 

 sources preserved and strengthened, all those who love na- 

 ture and out-door life, all naturalists, botanists and entomolo- 

 gists do their utmost by spoken word or written letter to make 

 clear to their Representatives and Senators at Washington 

 that these forests must be acquired for the Nation and for- 

 ever by action of this present Congress. 



It is suggested that in addition to the members from each 

 one's own" state and district, letters and resolutions insisting 

 on such action be addressed at once to the speaker, Hon. Joseph 

 G. Cannon ; Hon. John J. Jenkins, Chairman of the Judiciary 

 Committee; Hon. James A. Tawney, Chairman of the Appro- 

 priations Committee; and the Hon. Charles F. Scott. Chair- 

 man of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representa- 

 tives. 



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