94 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



" Whereas the headwaters of all important navigable streams to the west 

 of the Mississippi River are now protected by national forests, while the Appa- 

 lachian Mountains, which form the waterheads of many navigable streams of 

 great importance, are entirely unprotected and are being damaged to a menacing 

 extent by the wasteful cutting of the forest, unrestricted fires, and injudicious 

 clearing ; 



"Resolved, That the council of the National Academy of Sciences heartily 

 favors the extension of the national forest system to the Appalachian Mountains 

 for their protection and permanent utilization. 



" Resolved, That we urge upon Congress the passage at the present session of a 

 bill to acquire in the southern Appalachian Mountains and the White Mountains 

 such forest lands as are necessary to protect the navigable streams which have 

 their sources therein and to make permanent the timber supply of the eastern 

 part of the Unietd States." 96 



The important results obtained through cooperative methods 

 of research led the Academy in 1908 to appoint additional com- 

 mittees for the promotion of such activities. One of these, the 

 Committee on International Cooperation in Research, was to 

 serve as the adviser of the Academy in its relations with the 

 International Association of Academies. Its duties were " to 

 keep in close touch with the work of the International Associa- 

 tion of Academies, and to assist in securing suitable representa- 

 tion of the Academy at the council and general meetings of the 

 Association"; and also "to consider plans for cooperation in 

 research, and to recommend from time to time the initiation 

 of such cooperative investigations as may warrant the support 

 of the Academy." In 1909, this committee submitted a very 

 interesting report, which, as it briefly summarizes the activities 

 of the Academy in this connection, seems to demand quotation 

 in full. It is as follows : 9T 



" The committee on cooperation in research met in Boston on April 5. 

 Reports of progress were received from the committees on solar research, on 

 chemical research, on paleontologic correlation, and on brain research. 



" The International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research has held three 

 meetings, a preliminary one at St. Louis, and largely attended meetings at Oxford 

 and Paris. The second volume of Transactions has recently been published. 

 Arrangements are now being made for the next meeting, which is to be held at 



"Rep. Nat. Acad. Sci. for 1908, p. 20. 

 97 Rep. Nat. Acad. Sci. for 1909, p. 13. 



