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bringing about that progress and which the society has been so largely instru- 

 mental in securing. The meeting this year was held for the third time at 

 Bretton Woods. 



Tuesday afternoon, August 1, there was an excursion from the Crawford 

 House to the summit of Mt. Willard to obtain the incomparable view which 

 \Yillard affords of the Crawford Notch, which will soon become the property 

 of the state of New Hampshire, a noble scenic and forest reservation of 13,000 

 acres. Wednesday morning there was an excursion up Mt. Webster into 

 a fine body of primeval spruce on the side of the Notch. A little later a 

 meeting was held of the New Hampshire Timberland Owners' Association, an 

 organization on the lines of the great western protective associations, which is 

 doing valuable co-operative work in fire protection and acts in harmony with 

 the state forestry commission. In the afternoon at the Crawford House there 

 was a meeting of town fire wardens and the district chiefs of the state forestry 

 commission to discuss the practical problems of the state, especially in tlie 

 field of fire control. 



In the evening and on Thursday the meetings were held at the Mt. Pleasant 

 House. The Wednesday evening meeting was addressed by Governor Robert P. 

 Bass, by Hon. W. C. Hawley, a member of the National Forest Reservation 

 Commission, by Henry S. Graves, forester of the United States; by Thomas 

 Nelson Page, acting president of the American Forestry Association, and by 

 W. R. Brown, president of the New Hampshire State Forestry Commission. 



The address of Mr. Hawley was of particular interest because he 

 opposed as a member of the House of Representatives and of the Committee on 

 Agriculture the passage of the Weeks bill, and his hearty and evidently sincere 

 expression of belief in the value and success of the law were fully appreciated 

 by his audience. Mr. Hawley predicted the passage of the joint resolution 

 restoring to the purchase fund the |3,000,000 which has lapsed by expiration 

 of the time limit; and further expressed the belief that the principle of the 

 law would be made a permanent policy of the government at the expiration of 

 the five years of life of the present law. 



Thursday morning at the business session the usual routine business of 

 an annual meeting was transacted. The reports showed that the society was in 

 excellent working condition. It has obtained through purchase by popular 

 subscription a tract of 654 acres on Sunapee Mountain, which it is believed 

 will make one of the most attractive mountain forest parks in New England. 

 This was accomplished through the efforts of Herbert Welch, of Philadelphia, 

 a summer resident of the Sunapee country, who gave a spirited talk at this 

 session on the new reservation. George B. Leighton, of the forestry commis- 

 sion, in an able paper proposed a plan for an extensive state forest in the 

 region south of Lake Sunapee. The present officers of the society were 

 re-elected. 



J. H. Emerton spoke on ''Woodland Spiders," illustrating with numerous 

 specimens from his fine collection ; and D. M. Rogers, who has charge of the 

 gypsy and brown-tail moth work in New England of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, discussed the invasion of New Hampshire by these pests. 



In the evening was held a most interesting meeting devoted to New 

 England's state forest problems, with addresses, illustrated with the stereop- 

 ticon, by A. F. Hawes, state forester of Vermont ; E. 0. Hirst, state forester of 

 New nami)shire, and P. W. Ayres, forester of the Society for the Protection 

 of New Hampshire Forests. 



