noon of the next day. They were at 

 once shown around the new building, 

 from the Forestry Club rooms on the 

 third floor, to the Wood Tech tanks 

 in the basement. Living accommo- 

 dations were furnished by the courtesy 

 of the foresters. 



The meetings began at 10 o'clock 

 Friday morning with an address by 

 W. B. Greeley of Washington, on 

 "Lines of Principal Effort in Na- 

 tional Forests in the Next Decade." 

 In the course of his talk, he emphas- 

 ised the necessity for effective utiliza- 

 tion of timber, and for the reforesta- 

 tion of bare lands. Other talks of 

 the morning session were by W. W. 

 Vary of the New York State Grange, 

 and by C. M. Dow, Chairman of the 

 Forestry Committee of the New 

 York Bankers. The latter speaker 

 showed how well an investment in 

 forest property was able to satisfy 

 the three requirements of security, 

 physical safety, and sufficient finan- 

 cial returns. C. R. Pettis, the State 

 Forester of New York gave an 

 idea of the extent of his work, and 

 of the many requirements made on a 

 forester. 



Beginning the second session, at 

 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. J. S. 

 Whipple gave briefly a detailed list of 

 the aims of forestry in New York for 

 the next decade. Director J. W. 

 Tourney of the Yale Forestry School 

 outlined the changes in forestry edu- 

 cation, which seem to be needed for 

 the best progress in the next decade. 

 Immediately following him, Mr. 

 Moore of Watertown urged several 

 extensions of the work in northern 

 New York. President Drinker of 

 Lehigh University urged the neces- 

 sity of our making increased use of all 

 methods of publicity. 



In the meeting of the forestry 

 students, a representative from each 

 of eight schools gave a brief descrip- 

 tion of the work done by his club. 

 Our boys heard of several successful 



Ideas for making meetings interest- 

 ing and getting people to mix. It 

 was generally agreed that we needed 

 an association of forestry clubs in the 

 different schools, to start organized 

 action and to exchange ideas. Plans 

 for the organization were worked out 

 at a meeting of representatives from 

 all the schools, which took place the 

 following morning, W. W. Weber act- 

 ing for the U. of M. 



The main auditorium of the Uni- 

 versity was necessary to hold the 

 crowd at the Friday night meeting. 

 President Bailey gave an address on 

 the aesthetic side of the forest. Pin- 

 chot gave a brief exposition of the 

 necessity for federal control of for- 

 ests, waterpower and other natural 

 resources. He pointed out the three 

 main problems of the conservation 

 movement as; that of preventing 

 waste, that of preventing farther con- 

 centration of natural resources, and 

 that of handling the present concen- 

 tration. 



The final meeting of the foresters 

 was an open session of the Society of 

 American Foresters, in which State 

 Forester Gaskill of New Jersey and 

 "Daddy" Roth told what state forestry 

 holds for the future. Dr. Fernow 

 told about the needs and plans of the 

 society for the next year, emphasiz- 

 ing the need of a set of professional 

 standards, and also the urgency of 

 changing the Forestry Quarterly into 

 a monthly, negotiations for the 

 change being already under way. 



Saturday afternoon and evening 

 the Cornell Forestry Club gave a 

 boat-ride and shore supper at 

 Taughannock Falls to the visiting 

 foresters. About a dozen of the 

 foresters at the meeting visited 

 Letchworth Park at the invitation of 

 Hon. C. M. Dow, the following day. 

 This ended the gathering. 



ALFRED A. GRIFFIN. 



