SOCIETY AFFAIRS 



Mretinc; (jf Till'; .\i:\v York Section, P'ridav, Ski'TK.m i'.I':k 6, 1918 



Called Id order at lo a. ni. l)y Secretary Kecknagel, in the absence of Chairman 

 Pettis. I'ollowing were present: Messrs. Bcntley. Gaylord, Hosnier, Kellogg, 

 McCarthy, Recknagel, and Sterling. Hosmer was appointed temporary chairman. 



Hosmer reported for committee on membership ; this was a preliminary report 

 on the following for membership in the Society : Seward Smith, Robert Craig, 

 H. H. Tryon. E. G. Dudley, H. C. Balyea, H. L. Henderson, C. H. Guise, G. H. 

 Collingwood, Donald White, E. W. Blue, J. D.Xamont, Karl Schmidt, R. G. 

 Stubbs, K. F. Williams, B. H. Paul, D. E. Lauderburn, A. C. Volkmar, and War- 

 wick Carpenter. 



Hosmer and otiiers moved the endorsement l)y the Section, which was seconded 

 and carried, of the following for senior membership: Messrs. Collingwood, 

 Dudley, Guise, Lamont, Paul, Schmidt, Volkmar, and White; and for member- 

 ship, Messrs. Stubbs and Williams. .Action was suspended on other possible 

 members and referred back to committee on membership. 



Action on the name of Warwick Carpenter for associate memlier was left to 

 the committee on membership, with power to act. 



The name of Louis .Agassiz Fuertes for associate membership was suggested 

 to tiie conmiittee on membership. 



Sterling suggested that in sending out calls for future meeting they be sent out 

 earlier, and that at least two subsequent notices be issued as reminders to mem- 

 bers of the impending meeting. 



Kellogg moved that Recknagel prepare a paper on the timlier census, to be 

 presented at the meeting of the American Association for the .Advancement of 

 Science in Baltimore this winter, to be read by him if possible; if not, then by 

 some other delegate jjresent. 



Letter to Ridsdale about the Section's contrilnuion to tlie welfare fund for 

 lumbermen and foresters in the War Service and also his rci)iy thereto read and 

 placed on tde. 



Secretary reported on the progress of the timlier census in this State. 



Resolution on Moody's death left to Hosmer and Recknagel. with power to act. 



Paper read by McCarthy on "Knot Zones and Spiral in .\dirondack Red 

 Spruce" was most favoralily received. 



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