CXIV ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
and, as its aims affect every citizen of the country, whether he reside 
in the prairie districts of the interior of the Continent or the wooded 
areas of the older provinces as well as that of British Columbia and 
the west territory of northern Canada, it is evident that its mission 
is one of great and lasting importance to the people of this country. 
It is beginning to be realized, and none too soon, that it will be 
absolutely necessary to give greater attention than heretofore to the 
preservation of the timber at the sources of water supply if this country 
is not to suffer the penalty that has visited others that have continued 
to pursue the wholesale denudation of the timber of the country and 
which has been begun in the older provinces of Canada. 
The Association has, during the past year, suffered a great loss 
in the death of Hon. Geo. W. Allan, one of its most active directors. 
The third annual meeting was held in Ottawa on the 6th and 7th 
of March last, and was well attended by members from all parts of the 
country, and the Association was also favoured by and is deeply 
indebted to Dr. Fernow, formerly director of Forestry for the Federal 
Government at Washington and now Principal of the New York State 
College of Forestry in connection with Cornell University, who was 
in attendance and also gave an illustrated lecture on the evening of 
the first day’s session. 
Interesting papers and addresses were delivered by the following 
gentlemen :— 1 
“The Growing of Trees in British Columbia,” by President Sir 
Henri Joly de Lotbinière. 
“ Forestry in Ontario,” by Mr. Thomas Southworth. 
“The Pulp Industry in Canada,” by Mr. D. Lorne McGibbon. 
“The Pulp Industry in Canada,” by Mr. E. G. Joly de Lotbinière. 
“The Forest Tree Planting in Manitoba,” by Mr. A. P. Stevenson. 
“Forest Tree Planting in N. W. Territories,’ by Norman M. 
Ross. 
“Pulp Wood,” by Mr. Austin Carey, of the State of Maine. 
“Timber in British Columbia,” by Mr. Anderson, of British Col- 
umbia. 
Sir H. Joly and Messrs. A. P. Stevenson, Carey and Anderson 
were unable to be present in person, but their papers were read and 
will appear in the published report. 
Mr. Anderson also furnished the Association with specimens of 
the different varieties of wood found in British Columbia, and also 
with a section of a pile showing the disastrous work of the teredo in 
the waters of the western coast. 
