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lawns or in our forests, a great destruction of trees, greater than we 

 ever find at any other time. That is in Hne with the Professor's assertion. 

 The President — Our next paper is "Evaporation as a Climatic Factor 

 Influencing Vegetation," b}^ Dr. B. E. Livingston, Tucson, Arizona. In 

 Dr. Livingston's absence, we will have the paper read. 



