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apart all along the line. One of these walks six miles south each day, and the other 

 six miles north until they meet, returning the same day. The rangers on either side 

 of them are thus in constant touch every day, and there is the closest supervision. I 

 will not undertake to say there were no fires there, but I will say this : that every fire 

 that occurred was suppressed, and we did not lose five cents worth of timber. 



The election of officers resulted as follows: 



Patron, His Excellency the Governor General; Honorary President, Win. Little; 

 President, Aubrey White; Vice-President, E. G. Joly de Lotbiniere; Secretary, K. H. 

 Campbell; Treasurer, Norman M. Ross; Board of Directors, J. R. Booth, John Bert- 

 ram, Dr. Wm. Saunders, Prof. John Macoun, Hiram Robinson, Thos. Southworth, E. 

 Stewart, H. M. Price. 



In making the nomination of the Secretary, Mr. Stewart went on to make the 

 following interesting statement: I have taken the greatest interest in this Association 

 and, without any egotism at all, I think I know something about its birth. I was 

 coming up from Washington after attending one of the meetings of the American 

 Association, and I think the idea, as far as I was concerned, originated in smoke. 

 I was having a smoke in the smoking compartment of the car and thinking of what 

 we had done and the advantages of the American Association, and it dawned on me all 

 at once that the time was ripe for a Canadian Forestry Association. And when I 

 came back to Ottawa I called a few gentlemen together and His Honour the present 

 Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (Sir Henri Joly) was one of the foremost, 

 and Mr. Little came up from Montreal, and Mr. Bertram, if he was not at the first 

 meeting, came up shortly after, and as soon as I saw this I was confident that the 

 formation of the Association was timely, and the success of the Association shows 

 that we probably chose the right time to inaugurate it. 



Mr. CAMPBELL. Before closing, we ought to express in some formal way our 

 thanks to those who have been so kind in assisting us in the meeting. And I think 

 that one class of people who have helped both in the past and at the present time 

 to make the meeting a success and to bring the work before the public have been 

 the members of the press. We have always received great courtesy from them and 

 they have always reported our meetings well. We are greatly indebted to them and 

 I would therefore move that the thanks of the meeting be tendered the press for their 

 efforts in this way. 



Mr. LITTLE seconded. 

 Motion agreed to. 



Mr. BERTRAM. Not only is that so, but we have been met with the greatest cour- 

 tesy by every member of the press. Some years ago, when the matter was newer tfcan 

 it is now, and I had leisure time, I occasionally wrote different newspaper articles on 

 forestry, and I never in my life had one refused. They were always freely taken, and 

 the editors seemed to want that kind of literature. And I would only say, that if 

 those interested in forestry would only take the trouble to write out anything that 

 struck them that would be of interest to the press, the press would publish the articles, 



