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LIBRARY 

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 BOTANICAL 



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Vol. XV 



FEBRUARY, 1909 



No. 2 



TWENTY^EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING 



" Anti'-Forest Fire Congress" of the American Forestry Association 



Held in Washington, D, C. — New Officers Elected — 



President Wilson Retires — Reports of 



Directors, Treasurer, etc, — Plans 



for Effective Work 



THE twenty-eighth annual meeting 

 of The American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation was held in Washington, 

 D. C, on January 13 and 14, in the red 

 room at the New Willard Hotel. While, 

 in point of attendance, the 1909 meet- 

 ing may not have equaled former meet- 

 ings, the interest was intense, and the 

 meeting developed into one of the best 

 ever held in the^ history of the Associa- 

 tion, if judged from the viewpoint of 

 work planned and increased scope and 

 effectiveness of organization. 



The meeting was marked by the re- 

 tirement of the Hon. James Wilson, 

 Secretary of Agriculture, who for ten 

 years past has been the President of 

 ^The American Forestry Association. 

 ^The newly elected President is the 

 j^Hon. Curtis Guild, Jr., former Gov- 

 p_ernor of Massachusetts. A complete 

 ^.list of new officers, directors, etc., will 

 1 1 i be found in the usual place in this 

 Ll magazine. 



The 1909 meeting was styled an 

 "Anti-Forest Fire Congress," and sev- 

 eral able and intensely interesting 

 papers were read on the subject of 

 forest fires and their control. Consid- 

 erable discussion along this line devel- 

 oped in the meeting, and the address of 

 Frank H. Lamb, member of the State 

 Board of Forestry of Washington, to- 

 gether with the conclusions of the com- 

 mittee on forest fires and their control, 

 will probably be pronounced the ablest 

 contributions to present-day thought 

 along these lines that have been offered 

 before any organization, either State, 

 National or private. ■ 



The opening session was called to 

 order at 10:30 a m., January 13, with 

 Col. William S. Harvey in the chair. 

 Welcoming in a few words the mem- 

 bers present. Chairman Harvey an- 

 nounced the retirement of President 

 Wilson, and paid a high tribute to the 

 efficiency of the man who has done 



