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the State forest school of Pennsylvania, at ^lont Alto, and by the estab- 

 lishment of a similar station in Ontario through the co-operation of the 

 State and large pulp and paper interests. 



The need of co-operation and co-ordination of work in solving prob- 

 lems was developed in the papers of Coulter, Whetzel, and Duggan in 

 a symposium on the botanical opportunity, and in papers of Livingston, 

 Harper, Moore, and Lyman dealing with botanical research and the 

 war. It was shown that in certain studies w-here the botanists had 

 pooled their ideas and talents solutions were arrived at with the mini- 

 mum loss of time and etTort. As the value of such work has now been 

 demonstrated conclusively, it is improbable that science will again de- 

 pend wholly upon individual effort for the solution of its problems. 

 The failure to secure a number of angles on the situation by men work- 

 ing on the same subject, and to confer with those working in other 

 fields on similar lines, stood out as one of the weak points of the forest 

 investigative work so far. The co-operation of foresters with soil ex- 

 perts, chemists, and botanists on a single subject has so far, at least, 

 been a rarity; but it has now been shown more clearly tlian ever before 

 how great is the need for such co-operation. 



The work of the National Research Council and its plans for survey- 

 ing the scientific field in its entirety was vividly portrayed by Dr. 

 George E. Hale. The known work done throughout the world is to be 

 compiled and kept up to date by the International Council, so that an 

 investigator in any field may be able to have at his elbow, so to speak, 

 a resume of all that has been done or is known regarding the problem 

 that confronts him, which will prevent the great duplication and multi- 

 plication of effort that has marked research work in the past. 



Among the forestry papers that caused considerable thoughtful dis- 

 cussion were those by Kirkland and Recknagel in the realm of eco- 

 nomics and those by Illick, Pearson, Leavitt, and Tourney on silvical 

 work. All the papers showed careful and thoughtful preparation and 

 the search that is being made in silvics for the fundamentals governing 

 growth and distribution of species. Before the Ecological Society 

 papers by D. T. McDougal on the measurement of tree growth and 

 B. E. Livingston on climatic temperature complexes were of great in- 

 terest to tht)se foresters who were able to hear them, as well as Whit- 

 ford's papers on distribution in Brazil and in British Columbia. L^nfor- 

 tunately, the program w'as so arranged that it was necessary to miss 

 many interesting subjects in allied lines before other societies, but this 

 was unavoidable in general meetings of this character. However, much 

 of this could have been avoided if the meetings had been called on time 



