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In reply. Dr. Fcriiow wrote the Secretary as follows: 



"In returning grateful thanks for the kind words and tlioughts of 

 the Siieiety meeting at New York, I realize that I am a happy man in 

 having friends who do not wait till I am dead to say nice things ahout 

 me. 1 have heen unusually lucky, too, in living to see the results of 

 my work. I have heen a plowman who hardly expected to see the crop 

 greening, yet fate has been good to me in letting me catch at l^ast a 

 glimpse of the ripening harvest. 



"We are standing at the beginning of a new era, largely brought 

 about by the good work of the members of the Society. When a 

 national forest policy is being discussed in commercial bodies like the 

 Paper and Pulp and Lumbermen's Associations, we may well hope for 

 a realization of our aims. 



"Trusting that 1 may still be of use in the ranks. 



"Sincerely yours,- 



"B. E. Fernow."' 



2 — PROMOTION OF FOREST EDUCATION 



Whereas. The following resolution was passed by the Second Na- 

 tional Conference on Education in Forestry : 



"Resolved, That this conference recommends to the Society of 

 -American Foresters : 



"1. That it appoint, through its President, a Committee on Forest 

 Education to consider all suggestions made to tliis conference, whether 

 in formal reports or otherwise, together with such other pha.-es of 

 forest education as it deems advisable. 



"2. That this committee consist of (a) the chairman of this con- 

 ference as chairman; ( /) ) the chairman of the eight committees re])ort- 

 ing to this conference in those cases where these chairmen are Senior 

 Members of the Society, and in cases where they are not, of some other 

 member of the committee who is a Senior Member of the Society; and 

 (c) three other members. 



".'). That this committee be authorized to appoint sub-committees 

 which may include j^ersons to be appointed by the ch.airmen who are 

 not and do not by virtue of such a[)pointment become members of the 

 main committee. 



"I. That it report the results of its investigations with recommenda- 

 tions to the Society from time to time" ; be it 



Resolved. That liie President be and he is hereby instructed to ap- 

 point a Committee on Forest Education along the lines and for the 

 purposes suggested by the Educational Conference. 



