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CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1909 



FRONTISPIECE 



THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING— OPENING SESSION 63 



Adflress of Hon. James Wilson 64 Address of the Rev. Edward Everett Hale... 66 



AFTERNOON SESSION , 68 



Paper by Frank H. Lamb 69 Summary of Prof. H. II. Chapman's Speech.. 73 



EVENING SESSION 76 



Address of Hon. J. B. Ransdell 76 Lecture by Dr. Bailey Willis 82 



SECOND DAY'S SESSIONS 83 



-Vddress of F. W. Rane 



Report of Committee on Resolutions. 



84 

 86 



Report of Board of Directors 



Address of Prof. W. N. Clifford. 



87 

 88 



TREASURER'S REPORT FOR 1908 90 



THE JOINT CONSERVATION CONFERENCE— Condwd^of from January 92 



THE WOMAN'S NATIONAL RIVERS AND HARBORS CONGRESS 



By Lydia Adams-Williams 98 



THE APPALACHIAN-WHITE MOUNTAIN HEARING 102 



IN THE GIANT FOREST OF THE SIERRAS— Porw— By Alexander Blair Thaw... 104 



EDITORIAL— 



Resignation of Secretary Wilson 105 



Our Annual Meeting 105 



.\ Peculiar Fact 106 



Tlu' Magazine's Owners 106 



Our Members Should Help 106 



Till' President's Message 107 



What Are We Going to Do About It? 107 



Keep What We Have 108 



Eternal Vigilance 108 



Two Striltlng Comments 109 



A Nation's Prodigal Waste 109 



The Conservation Commission 109 



HOPE FOR FORESTRY LEGISLATION no 



COMMUNICATIONS in 



THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICAN FORESTS— By Richard H. Donai Boerker... 114 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope 118 



To Connect the Atlantic With the Gulf 118 



Pan-American Irrigation Congress Suggested... 119 



Miami and Erie Waterways to Become Ship Canal 119 



Mr. Pinehot and the Farmers 119 



Investigation of Water Resources of the Ohio 



Valley 121 



Deep Well Drilling 122 



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