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dorsing candidates for membership are urged to save time and labor by 

 including the essential information necessary for action by the Council 

 as indicated in paragraph 11 above. Forms following this outline on 

 which nominations can be submitted are now in preparation. A supply 

 of these will be sent to each Section as soon as they are ready, and 

 additional copies can be secured at any time by addressing the under- 

 signed. 



S. T. Dana, 

 Member of Bxecntive Council in Charge of Admissions. 



Report of the Editorial Board 



The scientific journals of the country published by technical societies 

 like our own have suffered greatly because of the increased cost of 

 printing and somewhat disrupted membership as a result of the war. 

 A number of the journals have greatly curtailed their publication, 

 eliminated illustrative material, and whatever illustrations have ap- 

 peared were, in many cases, paid for by the contributors themselves. 

 The Journal did not escape somewhat the general effects of the pres- 

 ent time but on the whole I believe has fared better than many other 

 scientific publications. In spite of the increased cost of printing and 

 paper, in spite of the Society's scattered membership, and in spite of 

 the national forest policy discussion, it is coming out at the end of this 

 year, possibly a little thinner and with fewer plates and diagrams, in a 

 fairly good financial condition and back to its old standard of a journal 

 primarily devoted to technical forest problems. 



The high cost of printing, of course, necessitated a more careful 

 selection of the material which, after all, was not without good efl^ect 

 upon the Journal's standard. The Journal was handicapped during 

 the last half of the year by the resolution adopted at the last annual 

 meeting to devote five issues to the discussion of a national forest 

 policy. For fear that the Journal may be accused of partiality, it 

 interpreted the resolution as publishing anything on the topic submitted 

 to it which was not always of the usual quality of the Journal. This 

 is a good occasion to emphasize the need of keeping the Journal a 

 rather free publication without obligating it to give definite time or 

 space to one particular subject. We must always keep in mind that 

 out of an edition of 1.200, and of nearly 1,100 copies regularly distrib- 

 uted, only about 430 go to regular members of the Society. Six hundred 

 and forty-five copies go to subscribers who are interested in the Jour- 



