44 INSTITITTK NOTES. 



meetiugs of the Inslilule. In addition to attending to the 

 necessities of business, we can rest assured that Mr. Palmer 

 will keep a weather eye open for matters of scientific interest. 



Dr. B. M. Underhill, Secretary of the Institute, has been 

 appointed lecturer in zoology in the veterinary department of 

 the Universitj'- of Pennsylvania. The doctor is a graduate of 

 that institution, and his appointment is a well merited recog- 

 nition of ability on the part of the University. 



The past summer has been a remarkable one for its low 

 rainfall and for the great forest fires that have accompanied 

 this state of affairs. Aside from the immediate destruction of 

 timber, there results from the deforestization a diminution of 

 average rainfall for the future. This again produces condi- 

 tions still more favorable for further fires, and so on in a cum- 

 ulative circle. The importance of the preservation of our 

 timber lands cannot be too strongly insisted upon. 



The Winter Course of Lectures of the Institute began 

 with the first adjourned meeting of October. There will be 

 one business meeting and three lectures every month through- 

 out the Winter. The good attendance at these meetings shows 

 how much the efforts of the Institute in this direction are 

 appreciated. 



The Institute has just had a number of sets of the Pro- 

 ceedings bound into book form. The three volumes so far 

 issued make a very convenient volume to place upon the 

 shelves. The last number of each volume of the Proceed- 

 ings contains the proper title page and index. 



