200 JOURNAL or I'ORKSTRY 



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deavored to keep an open mind on all questions which affected the 

 interests of the organization. 



The Journal op Forestry's pages have been open to all sides in a 

 discussion of the national forest policy, and if the Journal has 

 failed in any case to publish material submitted to it, you may rest 

 assured that it was due to the inadequate financial resources of the 

 publication which necessitate the most careful attention to the number 

 of pages of material which enter each issue. That the Journal should 

 be forced to rigidly limit itself as to size is unforunate, but until the 

 Society gets on a more substantial financial footing than it is today, 

 this is the only course which is open to those in charge of the Journal 

 OF Forestry. j^_ <^_ Bryant. 



Report oe the Secretary for 1930 



December 20, 1920. 



The membership of the Society is as follows : Fellows, 6 ; Senior 

 Members, 356 ; Members, 47 ; Associate Members, 65 ; Honorary Mem- 

 bers, 12 ; making a total of -486. There will be an increase in these 

 numbers when final action is taken on the recent nominations. 



Twelve Sections of the Society have now been organized and are 

 functioning. The New England and Pennsylvania Sections are the 

 additions. Formal organization of the Southeastern Section has not 

 yet been accomplished although authority has been granted by the 

 Executive Council. 



There has been a marked awakening of interest in the aft'airs of 

 the Society judging from the number and character of communications 

 that were addressed to the Secretary during the year. 



It may be of interest to the members to have their attention called to 

 one phase of such awakening. It occurred in connection with the 

 annual election. This can perhaps be best shown if we consider the 

 vote in terms of percentages. In doing this I am not establishing a 

 new line of reasoning. I am merely following a guide post set up for 

 us during the past year. As you may remember in the discussion of 

 the participation of the membership in a matter put before it, it was 

 indicated that "the Society has never polled a vote greater than 60 

 per cent of its total voting membership, and it reached that percentage 

 only once. The average total vote has run along between 4(» and 50 

 per cent of the total membership." 



