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Secretary; and (c) to amend the by-laws except as to the selection of 

 permanent directors. 



3. It thus turned virtually complete and permanent control of the 

 Association over to a group of seven persons selected by the Directors. 



4. It took this action without even formal presentation of the pro- 

 posed amendments to the by-laws, without any argument whatever in 

 their support, and in the face of vigorous opposition to them. 



5. In spite of the radical nature of the changes to be acted upon by 

 the meeting, the only notice of it appeared in an obscure place in the 

 February issue of American Forestry. 



6. The meeting itself was composed largely of girls of high-school 

 age and evinced an unmistakable desire to get the business over with 

 and adjourn as promptly as possible. 



7. Some of those present admitted rather shamefacedly that they did 

 not quite know what they were there for, but that they had been urged 

 over the telephone to come. 



8. The President tried to discourage discussion and went out of his 

 way to make it plain, by insinuation, that he discounted the efiforts 

 and accomplishments of foresters and that he regarded them as virtu- 

 ally incompetent to handle such an organization as the American 

 Forestry Association. 



9. An important point of order, involving a question of fact that 

 could readily have been established, was ignored by the President who 

 at once, without motion from the house, declared the meeting adjourned. 



10. The tenor of the meeting is succinctly summarized in this state- 

 ment by an old, gray-haired reporter present at the meeting: "In my 

 long experience as a reporter of various conventions, I have witnessed 

 many raw reals put over, but never one so raw as that which was put 

 over this afternoon." 



P. P. Wells Protests 



March lo, 1021. 

 To THE Editor of The Journal oe Forestry. 



At the meeting of the American Forestry Association held in Wash- 

 ington on the afternoon of February 25, I attempted to read a letter 

 written by me February 23 to the President of the Association. The 

 letter had been delivered to Mr. Pack that morning. My purpose in 

 reading it at the meeting was to express more briefly than could be 



