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recommending the creation of such an insti- 

 tution in the District of Columbia was read 

 by President Olmsted who explained that this 

 resolution would be submitted to the mem- 

 bers for mail ballot vote of approval. 



The report of the Committee on Exhibitions, 

 Fletcher Steele, chairman, explained that the 

 American Federation of Arts had agreed to 

 arrange a circuit for the exhibition now in 

 preparation, the Federation taking over the 

 exhibition after it had first been shown in Bos- 

 ton during exhibition in New York during the 

 month of April. The Federation has arranged 

 for exhibition.s in Washington, D. C, in May, 

 and in Dayton, Ohio, in June or July. The 

 president explained that an effort would be 

 made to make available for the professional 

 schools in landscape architecture the various 

 plans and data submitted by successful can- 

 didates for admission to the A. S. L. A. in the 

 hands of the Examining Board. 



Committee on Year Book, chairman, Stephen 

 Child: President Olmsted outlined the tenta- 

 tive plans for the publication of a year book 

 for the A. S. L. A., explaining that it was the 

 purpose to include all data of current interest 

 in an annual publication. He asked for ex- 

 pressions of opinion. Mr. Caparn felt that it 

 would be a mistake to sell it to members as 

 suggested by the committee. It should as pro- 

 posed by the trustees, be distributed free of 

 charge or not printed at all. Comments were 

 expressed relative to advertising matter in this 

 publication. Consensus of opinion seemed to 

 be in opposition to such advertising. 



Regional Plan for Vicinity of Washington, 

 D. C, was referred to by President Olmsted. 

 He explained that Mr. Child's able report 

 covering this project had been submitted and 

 read at the Boston meeting of the society in 

 1920 and that the resolution favoring this 

 project had been withheld pending certain re- 

 visions which, Mr. Child agreed, had become 

 evidently necessary. 



With regard to the Committee on Policies, 

 Mr. Caparn, chairman, Mr. Olmsted explained 

 that the revision of the A. S. L. A. policies 

 and formulation of new ones had not yet been 

 completed but were well on the way. 



The Committee on Professional Practice and 

 Ethics, A. D. Taylor, chairman, is engaged in 

 compiling a revised "Official Statement of 

 Professional Practice," which will be subinitted 

 for action at the next Boston meeting; and 

 a more extended confidential circular for the 

 information of members which will be sent out 

 later in the year. 



March 8, 1921. Boston annual meeting, 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bos- 

 ton. 



Present: Messrs. Aldrich, Beal, Blossom, 

 Brinckerhoff, Child, Comey, DeForesf, Hubbard, 

 Kellaway, F. L. Olmsted, Pond, Parker, Pray, 

 Reynolds, S. C. Smith and Steele. 



President Olmsted explained a questionnaire 

 recently received from Mr. C. J. Galpin, 

 Economist in Charge, Rural Life Studies of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture for 

 information as to the location and character 

 of completed works in country planning. A 

 request will be made for sufficient copies of 

 this questionnaire to provide each member 

 with two, one to be returned to the above gov- 

 ernment bureau and the other to be sent to 

 the Committee on Landscape Index, F. L. 

 Olmsted, chairman. 



The president also explained recent activi- 

 ties in regard to Professional Registration and 

 called attention to the recent report of the 

 Committee on Professional Registration which 

 had been sent to the members of the A. S. L. 

 A. He read a supplementary statement in the 

 form of a letter addressed to Professor Emil 

 Lorch of the University of Michigan which 

 the committee proposed to send to the mem- 

 bers. 



Mr. Olmsted announced that the trustees, 

 at their recent session had finally approved the 

 revision of the Statement of Professional Prac- 

 tice and Ethics and explained some of the 

 changes made, and that the proof sheets of the 

 revised statement would be forwarded to the 

 members for final adoption by mail ballot. 



Professor Pray was called upon to read the 

 minute on the "Life and Service of Charles P. 

 Punchard" which he had recently prepared. 



Mr. Olmsted explained recent activities re- 

 garding opposition to "National Park En- 

 croachment." These efforts had been success- 

 ful in Iieading off the Smith bill and the Walsh 

 1)ill which if passed would have permitted en- 

 croachment in Yellowstone Park. The Smith 

 bill will come up again in a new form at the 

 next session of Congress and provide for a 

 scheme to withdraw from the Yellowstone 

 Park a large area in the southwest corner of 

 t!ie park and add an area many times greater 

 in the Teton mountain section. Mr. Reynolds 

 urged constant activity on the part of the 

 members against park encroachment and 

 recommended the appointment of a committee 

 to report on the proposed new boundary lines 

 of the National Parks. He stated that the 

 feeling between the National Park Service and 



