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vented the Governor coming over at 

 that time but that he would either come 

 over to the meeting at 4 o'clock or 

 would be glad to meet the members of 

 the Executive Committee in the Execu- 

 tive Chamber. 



Mr. W. L. Sykes, President of the 

 Emporium Lumber Company spoke ex- 

 temporaneously on the lumberman and 

 the Adirondacks. 



Dr. John H. Finley, Commissioner of 

 Education, gave a very delightful talk 

 of 10 minutes in which he spoke of the 

 original forest conditions of the State 

 and welcomed the Association to the 

 Education Building and to Albany. 



Prof. Nelson C. Brown of the New 

 York State College of Forestry at 

 Syracuse presented a paper on the 

 Progress of Forest Utilization in New 

 York. 



The Committee on Nominations, Mr. 

 Frank L. Moore, Chairman, presented 

 their report and the report of the Com- 

 mittee was accepted unanimously by the 

 Association in regular form. The new 

 officers were as follows : 



President. Hon. James S. Whipple, 

 Salamanca, N. Y. 



Executive Secretary. Dr. Hugh P. 

 Baker, The N. Y. State College of 

 Forestry, Syracuse, N. Y. 



Treasurer. Warren H. Miller, 

 Editor, Field & Stream, New York City. 



Vice-Presidents. John B. Burn- 

 ham, Essex, N. Y. ; Frank A. Cutting, 

 Boston, Mass. ; George N. Ostrander, 

 Glens Falls, N. Y. ; Hon. W. H. Vary, 

 Master, State Grange, Watertown, 

 N. Y. ; Chancellor James R. Day, Syra- 

 cuse, N. Y. ; Hon. Calvin J. Huson, 

 Albany, N. Y. ; Hon. Franklin D. 

 Roosevelt, New York City; Hon. 

 Charles M. Dow, Jamestown, N. Y. ; 

 Hon. George E. Van Kennan, Albany, 

 N. Y. ; Dr. L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, N. Y. ; 

 Dr. Augustus S. Downing, Albany, 

 N. Y. ; Dr. Henry W. Hill, Buffalo, 

 N. Y. ; Dan Beard, Flushing, N. Y. ; 

 Mrs. Donald R. McLean, New York 

 City; Mrs. E. G. Colburn, Schenectady, 

 N. Y. 



Executive Committee. Dr. Edward 

 H. Hall, New York City ; Prof. Samuel 

 N. Spring, Ithaca, N. Y. ; Ferris J. 

 Meigs, New York City; Clifford R. 



Pettis, Albany, N. Y. ; Prof. Frank F. 

 Moon, Syracuse, N. Y. ; Frank L. 

 Moore, Watertown, N. Y. ; O. H. Van 

 Norden, New York City. 



The new President, Hon. J. S. 

 Whipple, of Salamanca, was called upon 

 for remarks and spoke of the situation 

 of forestry in the State and the future 

 of the Association. 



Mr. Frank L. Moore of Watertown 

 introduced a discussion as to the ad- 

 visability of the Association putting it- 

 self on record in the matter of amend- 

 ing section 7, article 7 of the Constitu- 

 tion. It was moved and carried by the 

 Association that it endorse the so-called 

 Sweet amendment introduced last year. 

 Dr. Hall and Mr. W. L. Sykes spoke on 

 the endorsement of this amendment. 



Moved and passed unanimously that 

 it is the sense of the meeting that the 

 State of New York shall make appro- 

 priation or bond itself for $10,000,000 

 for the purchase of forests or idle lands 

 in the Adirondacks and Catskills for 

 forestry purposes. This was also re- 

 ferred to the Resolution Committee. 



Moved and passed that it is the sense 

 of the meeting that the Legislature of 

 the State shall appropriate sufficient 

 sum of money with necessary provisions 

 and establish such necessary machinery 

 at as early a time as possible as shall 

 allow of the defining of the limits of 

 State lands. 



The Auditing Committee, of which 

 Mr. Whipple was Chairman, made a 

 partial report declaring it to be im- 

 possible to make a complete report, as 

 the records were not complete. At 

 5 :3O the annual meeting was adjourned 

 to meet at the annual banquet in the 

 evening. 



Some thirty men sat down to the an- 

 nual banquet at Keeler's Hotel which, 

 while not largely attended, was very 

 enthusiastic in spirit. 



Former Commissioner Whipple acted 

 as toastmaster for the evening. In- 

 formal talks were presented by Com- 

 missioner John D. Moore, Hon. Frank 

 L. Moore, President of the Empire 

 State Forest Products Association, and 

 Dr. W. A. Murrill, Assistant Treasurer 

 of the New York Botanical Gardens. 

 Dr. Murrill's talk was illustrated. 



