46 AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Irrigation in general was discussed Thursday morning by representatives 

 of the Department of Agriculture. Prof. Samuel Fortier, in charge of irriga- 

 tion investigations, spoke on the present stage of development and made a 

 forecast of the future. There were also addresses by Milo B. Williams, 

 irrigation engineer of the Department of Agriculture; Judge Geo. H. Hutton, 

 of California, and Col. A. R. Lawton. 



Other addresses at the various sessions were by Dr. W. J. McGee, of the 

 Bureau of Soils ; Norman E. Webster, Jr., of New York ; Dr. John A. Widtsoe, 

 president Utah Agricultural College; Hon. Gifford Pinchot, president National 

 Conservation Association; T. W. Taj'lor, professor of Civil Engineering at the 

 University of Texas; Willard E. Holt, of New Mexico; E. J. Watson, Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture, Commerce and Industry of South Carolina; Hon. 

 Dwight B. Heard, of Arizona ; Horace G. Clark, of Colorado ; M. O. Leighton, 

 of the United States Geological Survey; Dr. W. A. Evans, of Chicago, and 

 Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, Chief Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture. 



REUNION OF YALE ALUMNI 



'ALE Forest School graduates to the number of nearly one hundred met 

 in New Haven December 20 and 21 for a reunion. It is little more 

 than a decade since the school was founded, and about three hundred 

 men have been graduated. They have returned to New Haven from all parts 

 of the country, and since graduation have been occupied in Federal, State 

 and private forestry, or in educational lines of the profession. The program 

 of events included the following: 

 Wednesday, December 20 — 



9..30 A. M. — Registration and informed reception at Marsh Hall. 

 11.00 A. M. — Class business meetings. 

 2.00 P. M.— Program at Marsh Hall. 

 6.00 P. M.— Class suppers. 

 8.30 P. M. — General smoker. 

 Thursday, December 21 — 

 8.30 A. M.— Excursion to Maltby Park. 

 2.00 P. M.— Program at Marsh Hall. 

 8.00 P. M.— Banquet. 

 At the first formal meeting, on the afternoon of December 20, President 

 Hadley, of Yale, and Director Toumey, of the Forest School, gave brief 

 addresses of welcome. The program dealt with what the alumni have been 

 doing since graduation. It consisted of a half dozen ten minutes talks by men 

 representing different lines of forestry. Among those who spoke were State 

 Forester Hawes, of Vermont; Professor H. P. Baker, of Pennsylvania State 

 College; Professor Fisher, Director of Harvard Department of Forestry, and 

 Mr. T. S. Woolsey, Jr., of the United States Forest Service. 



The smoker in the evening gave men, of different classes, an opportunity 

 to renew friendships and make new acquaintances. The discussion of various 

 forestry problems was a feature of this occasion. Dr. Hadley presided at the 

 banquet and responses were made by several well known foresters. 



