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to a broadening of standards in our magazine literature and eventually 

 in the Society. 



So far, as a Society we have not done much to advance forestry 

 interests, but a new era in this respect promises to have begun with the 

 work by the terminology committee, which has just completed its 

 labors. 



With this rapid survey of the situation, I hope to have shown that, 

 while on the whole we can congratulate ourselves on our progress in 

 the development of policies and professional direction, the situation as 

 regards the problem of insuring a continuous timber supply .to the 

 nation, which is avowedly the main purj^ose of forestry, is by no means 

 satisfactory or even hopeful. 



In this respect we must learn to think nationally and develop a 

 national policy, in which the Federal and State governments can 

 cooperate. 



In conclusion, may I make a suggestion of constructive character, 

 namely, that the Society appoint a legislative committee to work out 

 the details of such a scheme of Federal and State cooperation on prac- 

 tical lines and also that a committee be appointed to devise means 

 of securing cooperation and coordination of investigatory work done 

 or to be done by the various agencies engaged in research work. 



