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portion of the program being presented on the first day. At this 

 meeting, papers on various aspects of forestry work in Canada 

 were presented by Messrs. B. E. Fernow, Ellwood Wilson 

 and J. B. Harkin. The report of the Committee on Forests was 

 presented by Clyde Leavitt, Forester for the Commission. The 

 Canadian Society of Forest Engineers met at the Laurentian 

 Club on the evening of January 18, dinner being followed by a 

 general discussion of the forestry situation in New Brunswick. 

 The Candian Lumbermen's Association held their annual meet- 

 ing January 19, and the Canadian Forestry Association January 

 20. At the latter meeting, papers were presented by Messrs. W. 

 R. Brown, E. J. Zavitz, R. H. Campbell, S. L. Decarteret and 

 W. J. Vandusen. A full report of the several meetings will ap- 

 pear in the February and March numbers of the Canadian 

 Forestry Journal. 



On the evening of January 19, the four organizations above 

 named held a joint banquet at the Chateau Laurier, at which ad- 

 dresses were presented by Sir George E. Foster, Minister of 

 Trade and Commerce; Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Leader of the Op- 

 position; Hon. W. J. Roche, Minister of the Interior; Hon. 

 Michael Clark, M. P. ; Dr. Frank D. Adams, Dean of Applied 

 Sciences, McGill University, and Hon. O. T. Daniels, Attorney 

 General of Nova Scotia. 



At the session of the Pan-American Scientific Congress held 

 at Washington during the first week of the year subjects of spe- 

 cial interest to lumbermen were discussed. Papers given of 

 special interest to foresters were : Forest Problems and Economic 

 Development of South America, by R. Zon ; Conservation of the 

 Natural Resources of Wealth, Agriculture, Irrigation and Forest 

 Culture, by Senor Raoul Brin; The Attitude of the Government 

 in the Matter of National Forests: Relation of Forest Culture to 

 the Future Development of Central and South America, by E. L. 

 Quiros. 



The outstanding feature of forestry progress in Canada dur- 

 ing the past year is the announcement by the Government of 

 New Brunswick that definite steps are being taken toward be- 

 ginning the forest survey and classification of crown lands, for 

 which legislative provision was made early in 1913. P. Z. Caver- 



