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 BOTANICAL 



CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER, 1908 



THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING 640 



CONSERVATION WEEK 641 



THE APPALACHIAN NATIONAL FOREST ASSOCIATION 643 



THE ATLANTIC DEEPER WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION 645 



THE MISSISSIPPI-TO-ATLANTIC WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION 647 



ANNOUNCEMENT OF SECRETARY WILL'S RESIGNATION 648 



WATER-POWER— By M. O. Leighton 64^ 



THE RELATION OF THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TO THE PUBLIC 



By George Otis Smith 652 



REPORT OF THE WATER SUPPLY COMMISSION OF PENNSYLVANIA 659 



BEARING OF THE PROPOSED APPALACHIAN FOREST ON NAVIGATION 



By W J McGee 661 



PRESERVE THE SOIL— Po^;;;— By John A. Joyce 663 



BOOKS ON FORESTRY .' 664 



A BEGINNER IN FORESTRY— Pa/'^r Three— By Anne Warner 665 



TREES IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 667 



INCREASE IN 1907 LUMBER CUT 668 



FOREST SCHOOL NOTES— ///MJ/ra/r(^— 



Yale Forest School 672 Colorailo School of P'orestry 675 



Pennsylvania Forest School 674 



MOTHER— Poem— By Eleanor Van AKen 678 



ORIGIN OF THE RESERVOIR SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES— Illustrated— 



By Thad C. Pound 679 



THE FOREST HOLOCAUST— A Symposium 687 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Forest Service Personnel in Six New Field Forest Receipts iu Western Depositories 695 



Districts 691 Arboretum for Cornell University 696 



Association Changes Name 694 Resolutions by Carriajre Builders' Association.. 696 



American Mining Congress 694 State Revenues from National Forest Increased. 696 



Illinois Votes for Wntciway 695 



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