I. ACADEMY OP SCIENCES. 



8*h < The Portion of the Tanikb 



Thomas < 



Determm* 



from a boundary near the Una of the 



Kurt In make* " bv 



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Mendenhall and A. 



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acieu si i nis roeei ing was me Drsssniauon OK a re* 

 i->. in which he gave a sum- 

 mary of his action concerning forestry preserva- 

 tion. In 1890 the Secretary of the Interior ! 

 dressed a letter to the President of the National 

 Academy of Science- r an oftV i . 



ion* points ct>i 



of a national forest policy of the forest 



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irable and practicable to preservt 



tire Hii.l to maintain t*TuianentIy as forested 



those |* tin- j. ui.hr iloinain now 



bearing wood growth f'-r tin- *Mppl\ "f timber f 



low far does the influence of forest u| 



rlimatc. Miil. and water conditions make 



' forest conservation in regions 



.t specific legislation should be enac 



toramedj theWli now! si ty Hdnt ft 1 



icoordance with thin request, a committee was 

 ippointed consisting of Prof. Ofciarisi s. Sargent, 



XrnoM ArU'irtiim of llnrvani 

 rarsity. as chairman : I>r. Alexander Agaesii. : 



UMoTthe Great Northern Railroad to UM i 



makmJTl U4al of MS.IJD; the*' 



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 na and Idaho, with aa estimate*! arm of 

 nich WI.OOO are in Montana 

 and 145*000 i 



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ll,^ m Ji mmm MiniitK J. fl.t A III f I., ll ! !! 



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$40 acre* ;t ml K<i 



the high end broken 



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r of Peb. 



Reserve." The prvwnl procwmaUon extern 

 serve southward along the two atoms of the 

 mountains nearly to Golombia river, and 

 .rue from the Pacific to 



i r . n K. mrw 

 the total area of the 



in^ ai M UH -. i- - ' 



3 - ' al ' H I : 

 800 acres; the > J. int., 

 liracint; the San Ja< 

 i':iiif..rnia and eparated from 



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pass, with an estimated area 

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rest Restrve by the San 



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part of the Umtoh 



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ngui-liel - 



. nle University; Arnold Hague, of 



.r-, ..f th.- U.tAiu.al work of 



.Mate at Itiltn This 



visited mot of t!,,- f..n-*t renervat ions 



andoth.-r i -!- of tin- I ni!..l States* be- 



; n IN m which 

 'resident of tl ^tatasset apart as a 



, rvM-rvationft: 



Illnrk Hills Ueserve, embracing the central 

 porti. lilatk Hi . I>ak.4a. ith 



M ana of 967,680 acres ; the Big l 



both slopes of the Big Horn mountain, with an 

 area of 1,198,060 acres; the Teton Reserve, adja- 

 cent to the Yellowstone National PHrk 



laiul K.-M-rv,- U.n- souOl UM r. '. al : '.. .. 



829.440 acres; the Klathead Reserve, emoracing 



both slopes of the main Rocky mountain rang* or 



Cental Divnie in northern Montana i. 



>m near the line of tin- < 'hern 



.i-l north wnrl to tt>< nal boumlary. 



with an estimated area of 1 .885,400 acre . 



aiul-CUrke Porest Reserve, embracing U-th 

 slopes of the Continental -, Montana, and 



northern ruh. and the northern 

 western |*rt of thw range, tfc 

 being |rt tah Indian HeservsttOB. 



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a inrtion i.U's annual addrav are 



contained in a letter of the Secretary of the Interior 



M,lent. -transmitting a report by the 



National F-r.-try Commission to the National 



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elected: William llenrv Dall honorary 

 the derartment of moflusks in 



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of Chemutry in Yale 1 

 I important ,*pr* tothe l,ton- 



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Charles Sedfwick Mi not, of UM Harvard Medical 

 who b a lei " 



who has 



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on the atomic 

 i for him a high rank 



er businasi included the election of Asaph 

 Hall to the vice-presidency of the Academy, in ptocs 



mew A. walker, dacessed. and of Ira Rurnsen 

 to the place of home secretary, made vacant by the 



; nof iv ?. I!.-,::, i!. f ring cent 

 were flerttrd mcmbcfi of the council lien- 

 George J. Brush, John S, Billing* 

 ^h,Simon Xewcomb.aml Arnold Hague. 



