ANNUAL MEETING 



FOLLOWING the meeting at Syra- 

 cuse, Dr. N. L. Britton, Director 

 of the New York Botanical 

 Gardens and President of the State 

 Forestry Association called a meeting 

 of the Executive Committee to be held 

 at the Bronx Gardens, March 18, 1913. 

 At this meeting purely routine business 

 was transacted and it was decided to 

 accept the invitation of Director Britton 

 to hold the autumn Forestry Association 

 meeting at the Botanical Gardens, Oc- 

 tober 17, 1913. 



The autumn meeting brought forth 

 the various committee reports and in- 

 formal discussions on the following 

 subjects: 



" Stock taking of Forests of New 

 York State " led by Professor Moon of 

 the New York State College of For- 

 estry. 



" The Farm Woodlot '' led by Prof. 

 Walter Mulford of Cornell. 



Dr. N. L. Britton spoke of the rela- 

 tion of trees to children and promised 

 to continue the discussion at the next 

 annual meeting. 



THE Second Annual Meeting of 

 the New York State Forestry 

 Association held January 22, 

 1914, in the auditorium of the State 

 Education Building, Albany. The meet- 

 ing was called to order by Dr. Augustus 

 S. Downing in the absence of President 

 Britton. The regular program was 

 opened by a paper presented by Prof. 

 Samuel N. Spring of the State College 

 of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y., on Com- 

 mercial Planting in New York State. 



Hon. Charles M. Dow spoke on 

 Forest Arboretums for New York and 

 Dr. Henry S. Drinker, President of 

 Lehigh University and the American 

 Forestry Association, presented a paper 

 on Forestry in New York and Through- 

 out the Nation. 



A vote of thanks was given Doctor 

 Drinker for his excellent paper and for 

 the cordial spirit shown by his coming 

 up from Pennsylvania to be present at 

 the annual meeting. 



Mr. Robert Rosenbluth of the Con- 

 servation Commission desired to pre- 

 sent a paper on the opening up of the 

 Adirondacks but in view of the limited 

 time the paper was delayed. 



Professor Mulford was invited to 

 read a communication regarding the 

 Adirondack situation and the matter 



presented was referred to Committee on 

 Resolutions. 



The afternoon session was called to 

 order at 2 p. M. with Dr. Augustus S. 

 Downing in the Chair. Hon. James S. 

 Whipple of Salamanca presented a mo- 

 tion to the effect that it is the sense of 

 the Association that the Legislature be 

 petitioned to appropriate funds for the 

 printing and distribution of 50,000 

 copies of Bulletin No. 9 on Woodlot 

 Forestry as printed by the Conservation 

 Commission, seconded by Professor 

 Spring. Suggestions were then made 

 that this motion be referred for action 

 to the Committee on Resolutions. 



Dr. E. H. Hall, Secretary of the 

 Association for the Protection of the 

 Adirondacks then presented a paper on 

 the Policy of Increasing Forest Hold- 

 ings of the State. 



Mr. Ottomar H. Van Norden, Mem- 

 ber of the Forestry Committe of the 

 Camp Fire Club led a discussion on 

 legislation, bringing out the chief points 

 of a bill to be introduced at the coming 

 session of the Legislature and which it 

 is planned to have take the place of the 

 present forest laws. 



Hon. J. S. Whipple was appointed by 

 the Chair to call on Governor Glynn 

 and escort him to the meeting. Mr. 

 Whipple returned later with the state- 

 ment that pressure of business pre- 



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