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3. To avoid, so far as possible, nominating men to the same office which they 

 have already held previously for two or more terms. Until there is a consider- 

 ably greater dearth of suitable men than now, there should be no difficulty in 

 getting new and acceptable men to fill the offices of president, vice-president, and 

 member of the executive council. With the offices of secretary and treasurer 

 necessarily limited to members resident in Washington, because the files and other 

 impedimenta are there, two considerations were necessary to be borne in mind. 

 The duties of both offices are detailed, onerous, and time consuming, and should 

 not be imposed on a man too long. On the other hand, the work being detailed, 

 the Society's interests suffer from too frequent change, since it takes a man some 

 little time to get onto the ropes. Three to four years is, accordingly, about the 

 limit. 



4. To distribute the nominations for the offices of president, vice-president, and 

 member of the executive council as widely as possible, from a geographical stand- 

 point and from the standpoint of the various organized interests from which the 

 membership is drawn — Federal forestry, State forestry, private forestry, forest 

 schools, etc. — so that in the deliberation of the council, of which all officers are 

 members, all shades of opinion would, so far as possible, be represented. 



5. To present in our final list of nominations the name of no man who con- 

 templates being absent from the country during the term of the office to which 

 he was to be nominated. 



Respectfully submitted by the Nominating Committee, 



Louis S. Murphy_, Chairman. 

 Herman H. Chapman. 

 William G. Howard. 



Officers and Members of Executive Council for 1919 



OFFICERS 



President— F. E. Olmsted, Palo Alto, California. 

 Vice-President — W. A. Ashe, Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 

 Secretary — Paul D. Kelleter, Atlantic Building, Washington, D. C. 

 Treasurer — A. F. Hawes. Atlantic Building, Washington, D. C. 



EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 



The Executive Council consists of the above officers and the following mem- 

 bers : 



S. T. Dana (5 years) H. S. Graves (2 years) 



J. W. Toumey (4 years) R. C. Bryant (i year) 



H. H. Chapman (3 years) B. E. Fernow (Chairman of Editorial 



Board) 



