SOCIETY AFFAIRS 369 



A number of members have been nominated for the rank of Fellow, 

 created by the revised Constitution, but have not yet been submitted to 

 the membership for ballot. 



RECOMMENDATIONS 



At present, in addition to handling the routine work of the Secre- 

 tary's office, the Secretary is chairman of the Committee on Meetings, 

 which requires a great deal of extra work and time. In view of the 

 fact that the services are contributed free, it would seem that the bur- 

 den of carrying on the work of the Society should be distributed among 

 those so situated as to be able to carry it on in the best interest of the 

 organization. There has been but one meeting of the Society as a 

 whole during the past year, yet special meetings may be necessary from 

 time to time, the arrangement of which is more properly the work of a 

 special committee on meetings than of the Secretary. It is therefore 

 recommended that such a committee be appointed for the ensuing year, 

 the chairman of which shall be a Council member, as provided by the 

 revised Constitution. 



RESULTS OF THE ANNUAL ELECTION 



The ballot closed December 20, and a list of those elected was pub- 

 lished in the January issue. It should be observed that extra members 

 have been elected for temporary periods to the Council to fill the un- 

 expired terms of those members absent in the field service of the War 

 Department. This was considered necessary in order to carry on the 

 business of the Society requiring Council action. 



E. R. HoDSON, Secretary. 



Report of the Board of Editors for the Year 191 7 



The Board of Editors has pleasure in reporting that the amalgama- 

 tion of the two publications — the Proceedings of the Society and the 

 Forestry Quarterly — in the Journal of Forestry has taken place with- 

 out any difficulties except unavoidable delay of the first few issues of 

 the Journal. 



The eight numbers of the year have contained nearly the maximum 

 of pages (1,100) which we started out to furnish, and it is believed the 

 character of the contents has at least maintained the standard of the 

 original publications. 



