THE TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING 



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disposal of its members for the promotion of 

 any well-considered work for the advance- 

 ment of forestry. 



Respectfully submitted, for the Board of 

 Directors, 



Edwin A. Start, 



Secretary. 



After some discussion of its pro- 

 vision, the recommendations in regard 

 to the change in the annual assessment 

 to members and the separation of the 

 dues from the magazine subscription in 

 accordance with the requirements of the 

 Post Office Department were adopted, 

 thereby making the annual dues to the 

 association one dollar, which entitles the 

 member to all the rights and privileges 

 of membership, including all publica- 

 tions except the magazine, the subscrip- 

 tion price of which will be two dollars 

 in addition. An additional class of 

 members was also instituted, as recom- 

 mended by the report, these being 

 known as contributing members, paying 

 ten dollars annually. 



In reply to a question, it was stated 

 that all present members will be carried 

 through the year under the old arrange- 

 ment which provides that the annual 

 dues shall be two dollars and shall in- 

 clude the magazine subscription, but 

 new members will come in under the 

 new arrangement and at the close of 

 their present term of membership, the 

 new arrangement will also apply to old 

 members. The Secretary made the fol- 

 lowing supplementary statement: 



In view of the meetings held by the Board 

 of Directors and by the Advisory Board 

 yesterday, it is possible for me to add an 

 informal statement to the report which has 

 just been rendered and acted upon. The two 

 bodies that met yesterday considered with 

 considerable care and in considerable detail 

 the future work of the Association. We felt 

 that it was advisable to organize it more 

 highly, as fast as our means would allow, 

 and I can indicate an outline of the kind 

 of work it is proposed to do, a fuller state- 

 ment of which will be sent to all the members 

 in the very near future. 



The Magazine Department will of course 

 continue to be one of our most important 

 lines of work. It will cost more money, yield 

 us more income and require more labor. 



A department which, for the want of a bet- 

 ter name, we may call the Educational De- 

 partment, will be carried on for the issuance 

 of small publications, bulletins or leaflets on 

 special subjects, that can be distributed freely 



or at a nominal cost, as the magazine cannot 

 be. 



A lecture service will be instituted, and we 

 hope to be able to provide competent lec- 

 turers in different parts of the country, in 

 the very near future. The plans for this 

 are as yet only on paper, but they will be 

 worked out as rapidly as possible. 



We shall also try to make the correspond- 

 ence work of the Association, always an 

 important feature, more important than ever. 

 We shall try to be a center of information 

 for the members of the Association, and by 

 keeping in touch with the best authorities 

 we hope to be able to disseminate knowledge 

 directly and personally through this corre- 

 spondence work. 



Then, of course, we shall have to carry on 

 more or less in the future, until our laws 

 are perfect, the legislative work in the Na- 

 tion, and, as far as we are able to cooperate, 

 in the states, until the laws that are written 

 on our statute books come up to the ideal 

 standard. That apparently indicates that the 

 Department of Legislation will be a perma- 

 nent feature. 



To organize all this work means the ne- 

 cessity of a very large income, larger than 

 we have now, and in that connection I would 

 like to make an announcement in the hope 

 that the announcement may be of help, di- 

 rectly or indirectly, in carrying out this pur- 

 pose. Yesterday the pledge was made in one 

 of our meetings by a member of the Asso- 

 ciation that he would be one of ten men 

 to pay into the treasury $50 a month for one 

 year. A response was made to that at once, 

 so that we have two pledges of that amount. 

 If we can get the others in, it will give us 

 an additional income of $6,000 for the com- 

 ing year, which will help us tremendously 

 in the expansion that is very necessary at 

 the present time. 



It was voted that the statement of 

 the vote of the representatives on the 

 Weeks' bill in the last session of the 

 Sixtieth Congress be printed and sent to 

 every member of the association, calling 

 his attention to the vote of his repre- 

 sentative. On behalf of the Finance 

 Committee, Colonel Harvey stated that 

 the Report of the Treasurer had been 

 received but had not as yet been 

 audited, and on his motion it was re- 

 ferred to the Committee on Audit, to 

 be published in the next issue of the 

 magazine. The report is accordingly 

 published in this connection. 



THE WORK OF THE WOMEN's CLUBS 



This closed the business of the morn- 

 ing session and the President intro- 

 duced Mrs. F. W. Gerard, Chairman 



