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vations. About fifty square miles of territory have been examined with re- 

 gard to the chestnut plague. The forest service has been assisted in making 

 a reconnaissance survey of the Ohio watershed. They are now proposing 

 to bring up again the idea of auxiliary forest reserves in which the land and 

 the contents of the soil beneath shall be separately taxed. 



An interesting summary was given of the forestry educational work in the 

 state. Dr. Rothrock referred first to the state forest academy at Mont Alto, 

 to which ten pupils are admitted each year. He described the system under 

 which a trained body of foresters for the state service is thus being built up at 

 the cost of the state, but to its ultimate profit. Estimating the work done by 

 these young men during their last three years in the school and on the reser- 

 vations after graduation at the full value of trained labor, the state of Penn- 

 sylvania in conducting our forestry work has actually gained money by their 

 education. About three hundred dollars is the profit to the state on every 

 man who is turned out. It seems to me, said the speaker, that this is a com- 

 mon-.sense plan and worthy of commendation and should be followed else- 

 where. He also indorsed the work of the forestry school of the State College 

 and referred to Lehigh University, as having started on a career of public 

 education. The course of lectures that has been inaugurated there and con- 

 tinued for several years has difi'used forestry knowledge and forestry interest 

 throughout the whole surrounding country. "When we consider,'' he said, 

 "that there is hardly an occupation, hardly a business interest, hardly a thing 

 connected with our life histoi-y into which forestry does not enter, the im- 

 portance of enlai-ging upon this theme seems to be apparent. I cannot too 

 fully approve and endorse the work that is being done by Lehigh University. 

 I would like to see not only every college in the land adopt to tlie extent of its 

 opportunities such a course, but I would like to see it carried into every public 

 school in the land." 



At the close of Dr. Rothrock's remarks, the president appointed to act as 

 escort to the President of the United States at the dinner in the evening. Dr. 

 Henry S. Drinker, president of Lehigh University, and Mr. F. W. Rane, state 

 forester of Massachusetts. 



Mr. Ayres reported for the nominating committee (Philip W. Ayres, 

 James W. Tourney, and P. W. Rane) and the report was accepted and the 

 oflicers for the coming year were elected as follows : 



President, Curtis Guild, Jr., Massachusetts; vice-presidents, Joshua L. 

 Baily, Pennsylvania; Charles W. Eliot, Massachusetts; B. E. Fernow, On- 

 tario, Canada; W. W. Finley, District of Columbia; David R. Francis, Mis- 

 souri ; Rutherford P. Hayes, North Carolina ; George Foster Peabody, New 

 York; J. E. Ransdell, Louisiana; J. T. Rothrock, Pennsylvania, and Albert 

 Shaw, New York; treasurer. Otto Luebkert, Washington, D. C. ; and the fol- 

 lowing directors: Robert P. Bass, New Hampshire; Herman H. Chapman, 

 Connecticut; Curtis Guild, Jr., Massachusetts; Austin F. Hawes, Vermont; 

 John E. A. Hussey, Massachusetts ; Otto Luebkert, Washington, D. C. ; Ches- 

 ter W. Lyman, New York; George H. Maxwell, Illinois; Charles Lathrop Pack, 

 New Jersey ; Thomas Nelson Page, Washington, D. C. ; Charles F. Quincy, 

 New York; Cuno H. Rudolph, Washington, D. C. ; Ernest A. Sterling, Penn- 

 sylvania; Frederick S. Underbill, Pennsylvania, and Robert S. Woodward, 

 Washington, D. C. 



A motion made by Mrs. F. W. Gerard, of Connecticut, and seconded by 

 Mr. W. L. Rice, of Philadelphia, was adopted to the effect that the members 

 of the association be given an opportunity to pledge themselves to secure each 

 five subscribers for American Forestky during the coming year. This was 

 suggested as a practical means by which each member might not only assist 

 the association financially, but extend the circulation of its magazine and 



