HO CANADIAN r<HU-:sTltY ASSOCIATION 



Mr. WHITE. It has been moved by Mr. Bertram and seconded by Mr. Little, that 

 the thanks of this Association be tendered to Mr. Hiram Robinson for the able and 

 courteous manner in which he has presided over this Association during the past 

 year. 1 li.-.-d not add anything to \vhat Mr. Bertram has said. We have all found 

 Mr. Robinson to be kind and courteous and genial, and withal having a thorough 

 grasp of tlu- business with which we are connected. I, therefore, put the resolution. 



Resolution adopted. 



Mr. WHITE. I have very much pleasure, sir, in tendering you the thanks of the 

 Association for your ability and courtesy in the discharge of your duties as President. 



Mr. ROBINSON. I thank the mover and seconder and the Association for this vote. 

 I am sure I appreciate it with all my heart. It has given me the greatest pleasure 

 perhaps of my life to preside over this Association for one year, and while, as I said 

 ^before retiring, I do it with the greatest pleasure, because I believe in rotation of 

 office (and I have no doubt but that position will be very ably filled by Mr. White), 

 and while I retire from the presidency quite willingly, I do not retire from the work. 

 My heart is in the work; my heart is in forestry, and I shall, as far as I can, even if 

 I were not a member or a director, do all I can to forward the interest of this great 

 Association in connection with our great country. For we have a great country, a 

 country that abounds not only in timber, but in minerals, and fisheries, and furs, and 

 lands a country that, to my mind, will become one of the greatest countries in North 

 America, if not in all the world. And I wish I could live long enough to see more of 

 it. It is just beginning to develop, and I am sure our Association will do its part in 

 helping it to go forward, not only to increase the number of trees- and reforest, but 

 to protect and give a chance to the trees that we have. That is, I consider, a most 

 important thing. Allow nature to help it along as far as we can. Allow nature to 

 do its work. While we are asleep, the trees are growing, and in the growth of trees 

 there is money. I feel very much gratified at the result of this meeting in Toronto, 

 and I have no doubt we will have a similar meeting, or as good a one, in Quebec. If 

 we de not, it will not be for want of trying on the part of Mr. Joly. I thank you, 

 gentlemen, for this very kind vote of thanks. 



Mr. CAMPBELL. I think we ought to thank the gentlemen who very kindly pre- 

 pared papers for presentation at this meeting. They have given a great deal of time 

 and thought to the preparation of papers, and the success of our meeting has largely 

 depended *on this work. I move that the thanks of this Association be tendered those 

 who prepared papers to be read at this meeting. 



Mr. STEWART seconded. 

 Motion agreed to. 



Mr. LITTLE. Those who have been members and officers in the Association feel, 

 as I would do or any one else who has been here, very reluctant not to be able to attend 

 the meetings of the directors, and it occurred to me that something might be done to 

 enable them to fall gracefully into a position in which they might be able to render 

 some service, and that a change in our constitution that would allow all who have 



