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ence of the Academy was unknown to the great majority of the 

 people of Ohio, and a "Pan-American Scientific Congress" was 

 organized last month in Washington, under the chairmanship 

 of the third assistant United States Secretary of State, with a 

 program of nine sections, but ignoring Canada, and also mathe- 

 matics, physics, pure chemistry, pure geology, zoology, psy- 

 chology and botany, so it was really a Congress of American 

 Republics, neither Pan-American nor scientific. The United 

 States Secretary of the Navy, in selecting the societies to elect 

 members of the Naval Advisory Board, ignored the National 

 Academy of Science, which is by law the advisor of the Govern- 

 ment, and also ignored the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, which is the great democratic body of 

 over 4,000 scientific men of the United States and Canada. He 

 apparently never heard of either association. These striking 

 examples seem sufficient to suggest that the forestry branch of 

 science, as well as the whole tree, would do well to seek aid by 

 every means of publicity, recreation, entertainment, education 

 and research possible. Since all these means are included 

 among museum methods and in the work of up-to-date museums, 

 museums may become of great aid to forestry, while forestry 

 may provide museums with many necessary scientific facts. 



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