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Whereas, It is of vital importance to the public at large to secure 

 a sufficient supply of lumber for use in building and manufacture with- 

 out further wasteful denudation of our present forest area; and 



Whereas, The present import duty on lumber and that proposed 

 in the new tariff bill now before congress has not a shadow of defense 

 or warrant in the public interest ; therefore be it 



Resolved, That it is the sense of the Wisconsin Natural History 

 Society that the conservation of our forest resources no less than the 

 interest of the consumers of lumber demand the free entrance of for- 

 eign lumber into the United States; and 



Resolved, That this society is opposed to any tariff, duty or other 

 restriction upon the free importation of foreign lumber; and 



Resolved, That we hereby urge upon the senators and representa- 

 tives of this state in congress assembled that they vote for and strive 

 by any legitimate means to secure the placing of lumber on the free 

 list in the tariff bill now under consideration ; and 



Resolved, That the secretary of this society be, and is hereby, 

 instructed to communicate copies of this resolution to each Wisconsin 

 senator and representative in congress. 



Dr. Earth then moved the adoption of an amendment to the by- 

 laws to permit the admission of junior members, as follows : "that the 

 following section to be known as section 5 of our by-laws be added to 

 such by-laws, the numerical order of the following sections to be 

 changed to correspond to this addition. 



Section 5. Persons who have not yet reached their majority may 

 become junior members of this society upon the payment of annual 

 dues of one dollar during their minority, which dues shall entitle such 

 junior members to a copy of the bulletin. Junior members shall have 

 no vote. Upon reaching their majority any junior member may be- 

 come a regular member of the society upon making application for 

 membership upon the regular blank provided for that purpose." 



After considerable discussion on the part of Messrs. Colles, Doerf- 

 linger, Russel, Burrill, Ward and Brues the motion was passed. The 

 meeting then adjourned. 



Milwaukee, May 13, 1909. 

 Meeting of the combined sections. 

 President Teller in the chair and 12 persons present. 

 The minutes of the last section meeting were read and approved. 



