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and discussions of technical subjects. The Executive Committee 

 expresses the hope that the Section organization of the Society may be 

 extended into the Eastern States, including the afhliation of local 

 forestry clubs or like organizations. This is feh to be in every respect a 

 logical and normal growth of the Society along the lines necessary to 

 make it most useftil under the conditions in which the work of our 

 membership is cast. 



In the general field of developing the scientific work of the Society, 

 arrangements have been made for the publication of the complete report 

 of the Committee on Terminology, probably as a separate issue of 

 the Journal of Forestry, with a sufficient number of reprints to 

 supply all demands for the use of this extremely valuable glossary of 

 American forestry terms. The publication of this work, for which the 

 Committee on Terminology, headed by Dr. Fernow, is to be very highly 

 commended, represents a definite step in the scientific work of the 

 Society, the completion of which is certainly a matter of congratulation. 



The holding of a special meeting in connection with the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science at New York is another 

 valuable step of this character. The meeting of this year was very 

 successful from every standpoint, and there is no question that the 

 Society acted wisely in its decision a year ago to make such meetings 

 a permanent feature of its work. 



As a further development along the lines of technical leadership, the 

 Executive Committee feels that the Society might well take up actively 

 the general subject of formulating through the Society or with its aid a 

 plan for assembling in convenient form for comparison and reference 

 data on all forest investigations, being conducted or proposed, by all 

 agencies in the United States and Canada. These data would neces- 

 sarily be very condensed in form but should be sufficient to indicate the 

 character and scope of each investigation. The making up and publica- 

 tion of a program of American forest investigations which could thus be 

 arranged for would be of very great value as the first step in correlating 

 investigative work in forestry, avoiding duplication, and putting 

 different investigators on the same subject in touch with one another. 

 It is felt that it would be desirable for the Executive Council to take 

 up this matter, perhaps as the next step of a constructive scientific 

 character upon which the Society might concentrate its energies. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



For the Executive Committee, 



W. B. Greeley, 

 Chairman 



