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the future will desire a complete set of the permanent periodical for- 

 estry literature of this country and will be glad to pay the small price 

 charged for them. The present year about $135 was received for back 

 numbers. The numbers out of print should be reprinted, so that com- 

 plete sets of each of the three publications can be supplied. 



ADVERTISING 



The Society should have an advertising committee and appropriate 

 some funds, if possible, to securing more advertising and more sub- 

 scriptions. Many manufacturers of wood-working supplies and outing 

 material might advertise, and also more book companies, if the medium 

 was brought to their attention. There are approximately 935 paid sub- 

 scriptions on the books, of which about 350 are included in membership 

 dues. This list should reach 3,000 in a few years, and might do so in 

 a very short time if the right means were employed and the right people 

 approached. 



CLERICAL ASSISTANCE 



The routine business of the Society has grown to such a volume, as 

 well as the general correspondence, that regular clerical help is needed 

 to take care of it. There are now eight sections of the Society, the 

 back numbers of three publications, as Avell as minor ones, to handle, 

 and the publication appears eight times a year instead of four, as for- 

 merly. 



It is strongly urged that every effort should be made to employ a 

 paid assistant, even if a small assessment is necessary for the present. 

 It will pay in the long run. 



It should be remembered that the amount of business of the Society 

 cannot be measured by the past, for a period of reconstruction is here 

 and an era of expansion rapidly coming. The Society should prepare 

 itself to take full advantage of these currents of progress and not lose 

 the opportunity to exert a vast influence on forest and kindred interests, 

 Avhich it cannot fail to do if it secures and maintains a commanding 

 position at this time. E. R. Hodson_, Secretary. 



Report oe the Membership Committee 



Owing to unsettled conditions caused by the war, only one list of 

 names was put up for ballot during the year. This made action on 

 proposed members much slower than previously, when lists were put 

 through every few months. However, 49 new members were elected 



