1899. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



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The American Forestry Association. 



A Special Meeting at Columbus. 



The American Forestry Association 

 held a special meeting at Columbus, 

 Ohio, on August 22 and 23. The meet- 

 ing was held under the auspices of the 

 Columbus Horticultural Society, and 

 the arrangements made by the officers of 

 that organization were all that could be 

 desired. As an affiliated society of the 

 American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, all privileges of accom- 

 modations and entertainment, as well as 

 railroad rates, were shartd by members 

 of the Forestry Association. 



The sessions were held in Horticul- 

 tural Hall, Ohio State University. At 

 2 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, August 

 22, the meeting was called to order by 

 William R. Lazenby, President of the 

 Horticultural Society, who was made 

 chairman of the convention. The attend- 

 ance was not large, but all present mani- 

 fested a deep interest in the proceedings 

 and evinced an enthusiasm that was in- 

 spiring. 



Among those present at this and the 

 subsequent sessions were: Dr. W. J. 

 Beal, Vice President for Michigan of the 

 American Forestry Association, and Pro- 

 fessor of Botany and Forestry in the 

 Michigan Agricultural College; Dr. C. 

 E. Bessey, of Nebraska State University, 

 Vice President for Nebraska; Rev. James 

 Poindexter, President of the Ohio State 

 Forestry Bureau; S. C. Mason, Profes- 

 sor of Horticulture and Forestry, Berea 

 College, Kentucky; William Saunders, 

 Director of the Canadian Experimental 

 Farms; Dr. B. B. Halsted, of the New 

 Jersey Experiment Station; Prof. A. D. 

 Hopkins, of the West Virginia Experi- 

 ment Station, Vice President for West 

 Virginia; John F. Cunningham, Secre- 

 tary of the Columbus Horticultural So- 

 ciety; Prof. J. A. Holmes, Vice Presi- 

 dent for North Carolina; Prof. L. C. 

 Corbett, of West Virginia University; 

 J. J. Janney, Columbus; Prof. F. W. 



Rowe, of the New Hampshire Agricul- 

 tural and Mechanical College; Prof. N. 

 L. Britton, Superintendent of the Bo- 

 tanical Garden, Bronx Park, New York 

 City; W. R. Beattie, Columbus: T. A. 

 Scott, Westerville; F. R. Luke, Ohio 

 State University; Prof. J. H. Lageman, 

 Columbus; J. F. Cowell, Superintendent 

 of Parks, Buffalo, N. Y. ; William R. 

 Lazenby, Professor Horticulture and 

 Forestry, Ohio State University, and 

 President of the Columbus Horticultural 

 Society; L. M. Freeman, Rex, Lecturer 

 on Forestry. 



Telegrams and letters of regret were 

 read from Gifford Pinchot, Forester of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture; 

 Dr. C. A. Schenck, Forester to the 

 Biltmore Estate, North Carolina; W. 

 W. Ashe, Consulting Forester, Raleigh, 

 N. C. ; Prof. John Craig, Iowa Agricul- 

 tural College, Ames, Iowa; George W. 

 Minier, Austin, 111., and others. 



In a brief opening address Professor 

 Lazenby welcomed the Association to 

 Columbus. Speaking of the rapid and 

 reckless destruction of the forests of 

 Ohio, one of the best agricultural States 

 in the Union, he called attention to the av- 

 erage annual rainfall of Ohio,and whether 

 it had been materially increased or its dis- 

 tribution greatly modified by the removal 

 of the forests. "We do know," he said, 

 'that our soil rapidly loses its summer 

 moisture; that our springs and wells are 

 failing and our streams and rivers are 

 more capricious in their flow; droughts 

 are more severe and floods are more 

 common." He urged the planting of 

 trees upon all land that was not culti- 

 vated or that was cultivated at a loss. 



After the appointment of a committee 

 on resolutions and hearing verbal reports 

 from the members representing different 

 States, a formal address was delivered 

 by Rev. James Poindexter, president of 

 the Ohio Forestry Bureau, on the past 



