SOCIETY AFFAIRS 157 



The Editorial Board, consisting of nine members in all, will divide 

 the fields of endeavor along the following lines : 



Forest Utilization 



Forest Finance 



Forest Ecology 



Mensuration and Organization 



Silviculture 



Technology 



Policy and Administration 



Forest Economics 



The editor in charge of utilization will also be given special responsi- 

 bilities in looking after matters pertaining to subscriptions and adver- 

 tising or, in other words, will serve as a business manager. The 

 Canadian Society of Forest Engineers wishes to make the Journal its 

 official organ and it is presumed that the Journal will be furnished to 

 members of that Society at the same price as to members of this Society 

 and to outsiders, namely, at the rate of $3 per annum. 



Report of the Committee on Admissions 



January 18, 1917. 

 The Committee on May 15, 1916, issued a Hst of candidates for 

 membership, including 26 candidates for Active membership, 5 candi- 

 dates for Associate membership, and 1 candidate for Honorary member- 

 ship. Of the above candidates 22 were elected to Active, 5 to Associate, 

 and 1 to Honorary membership. 



Earle H. Clapp, 



Chairman. 



The New York Meeting 



For the first time in its history, during the week of December 36 to 

 30, 1916, the Society of American Foresters held a meeting in con- 

 nection with the Convocation of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, with which the Society is now definitely 

 affiliated. 



Owing to the absence of several members who had planned to 

 present papers, there was but one session of the Society, held on 

 Friday, December 29. This was attended by about fifty persons, 

 mostly active members, including representatives of several eastern 



