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tion was founded, was put through at the instance of the present ad- 

 ministration without giving the membership of the Association any 

 adequate opportunity to pass upon its merits and to adopt or reject 

 it as it saw fit. The Association was not organized for the purpose of 

 giving a small self -perpetuating group of men authority to speak in 

 the name of its 14.000 or 15,000 members or to use funds raised through 

 the current subscriptions of these members as it sees fit. It was organ- 

 ized to give efir'ective and democratic expression and leadership to the 

 consensus of conviction by its membership on forestry measures re- 

 quiring public action. If the members of the Association desired to 

 change the character of their organization, well and good ; but they 

 had no opportunity to pass upon it. This fundamental change was 

 made by a negligible fraction of the membership with no opportunity 

 for the rank and file of the Association members to judge the merits 

 of the proposal and to accept or reject it as they might desire. 



Under these circumstances, I can not assume any responsibility, 

 however nominal, for the future conduct of the aft'airs of the Associa- 

 tion; and my resignation as one of its Directors is the only course open. 

 I desire to have my position in this matter clearly understood by the 

 members of the American Forestry Association by and large, and there- 

 fore request that this letter be published in the next issue of the mag- 

 azine. \''ery sincerely yours, 



W. B. Greeley, 



Forester. 



H. H. Chapman Resigns From Life Directorship in the American- 

 Forestry Association 



As the May issue of the Journal goes to press the following tele- 

 gram was received from Prof. H. H. Chapman, who is now on field 

 work at Urania, La. : 



Presented my resignation to the Board as life Director on ]ilay 12 — 

 the first meeting the Board held since election. There remained certain 

 duties to perform in my capacity as Director which had not been com- 

 pleted before and therefore prevented my earlier resignation. I am 

 still retaining my membership in the Association. Urge all members 

 to co-operate with the temporary committee, of which Henry S. Graves, 

 1731 H Street, Washington, D. C, is Chairman, and Harris A. Reyn- 

 olds, 4 Joy Street, Boston. Mass.. i? Secretary, in securing proper 

 reorganization of the Association. 



H. H. Chapman. 



