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the Division of Forestry, University of California, Berkeley, Cali- 

 fornia; Vice-President, R. T. Fisher, Director of Harvard Forest, 

 Petersham, Massachusetts ; Secretary, R. V. Reynolds, United States 

 Forest Service, Washington, D. C. ; Treasurer, F. W. Besley, State 

 Forester, Baltimore, Maryland; E. H. Frothingham, Director, 

 Appalachian Forest Experiment Station, Asheville, North Carolina; 

 R. Y. Stuart, Secretary of Forests and Waters, Harrisburg, Penn- 

 sylvania; Prof. R. C. Bryant, Yale Forest School, New Haven, 

 Connecticut; Raphael Zon, Director Lake States Forest Experiment 

 Station, St. Paul, Minnesota; and Prof. B. P. Kirkland, College of 

 Forestry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. 



BRITISH EMPIRE FORESTRY CONFERENCE 



One of the outstanding events in the forestry world during 1923 

 was the meeting in Canada from July 25 to September 7 of the 

 British Empire Forestry Conference. Not only did this meeting 

 serve to bring together delegates from the Dominions, Colonies and 

 Protectorates of Great Britain and permit coordination of facts about 

 their resources, but it brought into perspective the relation of the 

 forest resources of North America to those of the rest of the world. 



The Conference was convened on July 25 at Ottawa with an 

 address of welcome by the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right 

 Honorable W. L. Mackenzie King. General Lord Lovat, chairman of 

 the British Forestry Commission, was elected as presiding officer of 

 the Conference. The delegates interspersed sitting for the discussion 

 of forestry problems with tours of the Canadian forest areas, start- 

 ing with Quebec and New Brunswick and ending with a tour of the 

 forests of Vancouver Island. 



Addresses were made to the Conference dealing with the problems 

 of forestry in the various far-flung corners of the British Empire, 

 and among the speakers was William B. Greeley, Chief Forester of 

 the United States, who described the forest situation of this country. 

 Considerable attention was devoted to discussion of the scientific side 

 of the forestry question. 



Following the Conference, Lord Lovat made a brief tour of some 

 of the forest areas of the United States, conferring with Calvin 

 Coolidge, President of the United States, in Washington, where he 

 was the guest of the American Tree Association. 



