198 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



The question of the election of Fellows to the Society has been to 

 the fore during the last few months and a list of some fifty names 

 submitted to the Executive Council for action. For failure to elect 

 Fellows each year the Society has been branded by some as being in a 

 comatose condition. This feeling is due probably to a misapprehension 

 of what the grade of Fellow should stand for in a technical society 

 such as ours. 



The chief object for which the grade of Fellow was created was 

 to serve as a mark of distinction for those men in the profession on 

 whom we wished to confer the highest honor in our power. In order 

 to fulfill this mission it must be confined to a very limited number of • 

 the profession whose work stands out preeminent — otherwise there is 

 no special honor attached to election to this grade. The Society, 

 therefore, should move slowly in the election of members to the grade 

 of Fellow, in order that such election may be regarded as a real honor. 



The President of the Society has within the last few weeks been 

 asked by the Director of the Bureau of Standards to appoint a mem- 

 ber to serve on a committee to revise a tentative safety code on log- 

 ging and sawmill work. I have appointed on this committee, E. T. 

 Clarke, Professor Logging Engineering, University of Washington. 

 For some years he has given much time and thought to this question 

 and I am sure will prove a very able member of the committee. Any 

 members of the Society who are interested in the question of safety 

 sitandards can secure a copy of the present tentative code from the 

 Director of the Bureau of Standards. It is requested that those of 

 you who have suggestions to make get in touch with Clarke and make 

 arrangements to furnish him the data so that he may prepare such 

 material on the subject as the members desire to bring before the 

 committee. 



At the conference on Forestry Education which closed at New 

 Haven on Saturday and at which more than thirty institutions teach- 

 ing forestry subjects were represented, a resolution was passed re- 

 questing the Society to stand sponsor for an Educational Committee 

 which shall continue the work of the conference and be the clearing 

 house for educational matters for the profession. The idea is an 

 exceedingly good one and I hope that the Society will approve the 

 request of the conference. An opportunity is here presented not only 

 to further forestry education in this country but also to promote re- 

 search within the profession. 



