1908 



ANNUAL MEETING 



137 



ers Woodruff, of Philadelphia, who 

 represented the American Civic Asso- 

 ciation, and who made a plea for the 

 establishment of the Appalachian Na- 

 tional Forests. 



Mr. Ligon Johnson, president of the 

 Appalachian National Forest Asso- 

 ciation, with headquarters at Atlanta, 

 Ga., gave an interesting talk in regard 

 to the work of his association, whose 

 effective efforts in giving publicity to 

 the Appalachian movement and secur- 

 ing the active interest of the popula- 

 tion of the South, are notable. 



The evening session was largely at- 

 tended and was especially interesting. 

 A number of handsomely gowned la- 

 dies were among the audience. 



The Committee on By-Laws re- 

 ported with recommendation of cer- 

 tain changes. These were adopted, 

 and will appear in the complete by- 

 laws, which will be republished in 

 Forestry and Irrigation in a later 



issue. 



RESOLUTIONS. 



The resolutions adopted recommend 

 the passage at this session of Con- 

 gress of the bill providing for Na- 

 tional Forests in the Southern Appa- 

 lachian and White Mountain regions; 

 that a timber census of the United 

 States be taken ; and that Congress be 

 asked to enlarge the Hatch Fund law. 

 so that part of the receipts from Na- 

 tional Forests may be expended for 

 forestry education and forestry ex- 

 periments. 



NEW OEEICERS ELECTED. 



The report of the Committee on 

 Nominations was as follows : 



For President — Hon. James Wil- 

 son, Secretary of Agriculture. For 

 Vice-Presidents — Edward Everett 

 Hale, chaplain of the U. S. Senate; 

 B. E. Fernow, dean of the Faculty of 

 Forestry, University of Toronto ; 

 James W. Pinchot, Washington (since 

 deceased) ; N. J. Bachelder, master of 

 the National Grange, Concord, N. H. ; 

 George Foster Peabody, banker. New 

 York; George C. Pardee, late Gov- 



ernor of California, Sacramento ; 

 Rutherford P. Hayes, Asheville, N.C., 

 president of the Appalachian National 

 Park Association ; Albert Shaw, ed- 

 itor of the Revieiv of Reviezvs, New 

 York ; W. W. Finley, president of the 

 Southern Railway, Washington ; J. T. 

 Rothrock, secretary of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Forestry Reservation Commis- 

 sion, West Chester, Pa. ; George T. 

 Oliver, newspaper publisher, Philadel- 

 phia ; Charles R. Van Hise, president 

 of the University of Wisconsin, Madi- 

 son. For Treasurer — Otto Luebkert, 

 manager of the American Audit Com- 

 pany, Washington. For Directors — 

 James Wilson, Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture ; George P. Whittlesey, patent at- 

 torney, Washington ; James H. Cutler, 

 retired manufacturer, Washington ; 

 Henry S. Graves, director of the Yale 

 Forest School, New Haven, Conn. ; F. 

 H. Newell director of the U. S. Rec- 

 lamation Service, Washington ; Wil- 

 liam L. Hall, assistant forester, U. S. 

 Forest Service, Washington; George 

 K. Smith, secretary of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, 

 St. Louis; William S. Harvey, presi- 

 dent of the board of trustees, Phila- 

 delphia Commercial Museum; H. A. 

 Pressey, hydraulic engineer, Wash- 

 ington ; Asbury F. Lever, Representa- 

 tive in Congress from South Carolina ; 

 W. J. McGee, Bureau of Soils, Wash- 

 ington; Philip W. Ayres, forester of 

 the Society for the Protection of New 

 Hampshire Forests, Concord, N. H. ; 

 Robert Garrett, capitalist, Baltimore, 

 Md. ; Ligon Johnson, attorney, New 

 York, late of Atlanta, and president of 

 the Appalachian National Forest As- 

 sociation ; Filibert Roth, dean of the 

 Forestry School, University of Michi- 

 gan, Ann Arbor. 



This report was unanimously adopt- 

 ed, and the secretary was requested to 

 cast a ballot for the unanimous elec- 

 tion of each of the above. 



THE UNDERLYING IDEA. 



The principle underlying the meet- 

 ings and the one to which all the ad- 

 dresses reverted was that of educat- 



