PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS 



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the custody of the seal of the Association 

 and of all documents, books and collec- 

 tions, shall sign all checks, shall conduct 

 the correspondence of the Association not 

 otherwise provided for, ^hall keep a list of 

 the members of the Association with their 

 addresses, shall notify members of the As- 

 sociation and of the Board of Directors 

 of the time and place of all meetings, 

 and shall perform such other duties as the 

 Board of Directors may require. 



ARTICLE X. Tlie Forester 



The Association shall employ a Forester 

 who shall be a man of recognized attain- 

 ments and high standing in forestry mat- 

 ters. He shall be the expert of the Associa- 

 tion in its technical work and a representa- 

 tive of the Association in its public forestry 

 activities. Under the direction of the Board 

 of Directors, he shall hold a responsible 

 relationship toward the editorial policy of 

 the magazine published by the Association 

 as to forestry matters, shall promote the 

 objects set forth in Article II of these By- 

 Laws, shall advance such public forest pol- 

 icies as the Association may endorse, shall 

 represent the Association in supporting 

 national, state, municipal, and private for- 



estry developments, and shall perform such 

 other duties as the Board of Directors may 

 require. 



ARTICLE XI. Meetings 



Section I. The annual meeting of the 

 members of the Association for the election 

 of officers and for the transaction of such 

 other business as must be transacted by the 

 entire Association shall be held in Wash- 

 ington, D. C, or at such other place, on 

 such day in January and at such hour as the 

 Board of Directors shall determine. 



Section 2. Special meetings of the mem- 

 bers of the Association may be called at 

 any time by the Board of Directors. 



Section 3. Notice of the Annual Meet- 

 ing, and of any special meeting, shall be 

 published in the magazine of the Asso- 

 ciation at least three weeks before the 

 date fixed for the meeting. 



Section 4. The presence of thirty mem- 

 bers of the Association shall constitute 

 a quorum. 



ARTICLE XII. Local Representatives 

 and Affiliated Organizations 



Section i. The Board of Directors may 

 designate such representatives of the As- 

 sociation in various portions of the United 

 States and under such conditions as to 



compensation or payment of traveling ex- 

 penses as it shall deem wise and desirable 

 in furtherance of the objects of the Asso- 

 ciation. The local representatives so des- 

 ignated shall perform their duties under the 

 direction of the Secretary or Forester of 

 the Association as the Board may deter- 

 mine. 



Section 2. The Board of Directors may, 

 by resolution, recognize and designate as 

 organizations affiliated with the American 

 Forestry Association such State Forestry 

 .'\ssociations or other local organizations 

 whose objects are in accord with those of 

 the Association as shall request such re- 

 cognition and designation, and as shall, 

 in the judgment of the Board, in view of 

 their character, membership, and purposes, 

 make affiliation desirable in furtherance of 

 the common objects of the Association 

 and of the local organization. 



ARTICLE XIII. Amendments 



These By-Laws may be amended at any 

 annual meeting of the members of the 

 .Association by a two-thirds vote of the 

 members voting by mail, provided that no- 

 tice of the proposed amendment has been 

 published in the magazine together with 

 the notice of the meeting. 



HOW SKUNKS DEFEND THEMSELVES- Continued from Page 29 



countries, their extraordinary means of offense and de- 

 fense having rendered them famous. 



Skunks are animals of moderate size, and in some in- 

 stances would be considered small. In form they are 

 stout, with very bushy tails. The colors of all are black, 

 offset in the various species by white, the markings being 

 in stripes, bands, spots or patches. Pelage of such a strik- 

 ing character as this renders the animals very conspicu- 

 ous, and this is especially the case when they are seen 

 upon the snow or upon very light colored soil. Skunks 

 possess unwebbed toes, and these are of the ordinary 

 number, their feet presenting nothing peculiar. 



In their movements skunks are slow and deliberate, 

 and they are not capable of attaining a very high rate 

 of speed in running. They have teeth of the ordinary 

 pattern of the smaller carnivora, there being about 

 thirty-two or thirty-four. 



The very long and rather coarse hair of a skunk leads 

 one to suppose that the animal is stouter than it really is. 

 They have somewhat long bodies, with small head, and 

 short and rounded ears, and they become inordinately fat 

 at good feeding seasons of the year; at such times they 

 appear very stout and ungainly. 



We have a very distinct species of skunk formerly 

 known as the White-backed Skimk, which is found from 



Texas to Arizona, from whence it ranges down through 

 Mexico, Central America and into Patagonia. The writer 

 has never seen this animal alive, and authors are at va- 

 riance in their descriptions of its specific characters. 

 One of the chief features in the external anatomy of this 

 animal is its nearly straight, remarkably long and power- 

 ful claws. Its tail is quite unlike the tail in other skunks, 

 being anything but bushy. The hair is very brittle, re- 

 sembling the hair on our Prong-buck. It is said that in 

 nature this animal is quite fearless, is very easily trapped, 

 and will even make no endeavor to escape when simply 

 approached and taken by hand. As it commands all the 

 powers of offense and defense, however, possessed by 

 its kin throughoult this country, such an operation is 

 fraught with no little annoyance, to say the least. If near 

 its burrow, or some other convenient hollow in rock, log 

 or tree, it will avail itself of the same and make good its 

 escape. 



This skunk has feeding habits very similar to those of 

 other skunks, and it is likewise found both in the tim- 

 ber and upon the plains. Hunters say that its tail is 

 usually held erect when walking, and, being very conspic- 

 uous in its color, it is an easy matter to discover the ani- 

 mal as it passes through low vegetation of any kind. 



