THE FORESTER. 



January, 



E. Stewart, Ottawa, Ontario. 

 William Little, Montreal, Quebec. 

 Geo. P. Ahern, Manila, P. I. 

 George Carter, Hawaii. 



Professor Holmes, for the auditing com- 

 mittee, submitted the following report of 

 its examination of the treasurer's accounts : 

 " The Auditing Committee begs to report 

 to the Association that it has examined 

 the vouchers and accounts of the Treasurer, 

 and approves the same. 



" Your Committee also approves the 

 plan of keeping the vouchers and books 

 adopted by the Treasurer, which is the 

 same as that in use for several years past, 

 except that it finds no easy way of check- 

 ing or verifying the entries of the Treas- 

 urer concerning the amounts paid to him 

 in the form of membership fees, or the 

 amounts turned over to him from The 

 Forester. (Signed: F. H. Newell, 

 J. A. Holmes.)" 



In explanation of the criticism contained 

 in the report, Mr. Newell stated that the 

 system was as good as any he knew of, 

 but he hoped that we might have the best 

 one possible. The treasurer stated that the 

 card system has been adopted during the 

 past year, owing to the great increase in 

 the number of individual accounts. The 

 chair suggested that it might be well for 

 the Board of Directors to give the accounts 

 a preliminary auditing before the annual 

 meeting. (For the Treasurer's Report see 

 page 10.) 



Mr. Newell read a telegram from Prof. 



F. W. Taylor, Superintendent of Forestry, 

 Pan American Exposition, regretting his 

 inability to be present. Also a letter of 

 regrets from Dr. N. H. Egleston. 



Prof. Henry Ferguson, of Hartford, 

 Conn., brought to the American Forestry 

 Association the welcome greetings of the 

 Connecticut Forestry Association. 



Mr. Elihu Stewart, Chief Inspector of 

 Timber and Forestry for Canada, stated 

 that the formation of the Canadian Associa- 

 tion resulted from his visit to this Associa- 

 tion last year. He conveyed the thanks of 

 the Canadian Association for the very great 

 assistance this Association has rendered 

 it. He referred to the increasing inter- 

 est in forestry throughout the Dominion, 



and invited this Association to the coming 

 meeting of the Canadian Association in 

 March. He explained at some length the 

 system of fire patrol which he is endeavor- 

 ing to extend throughout the forests of 

 Canada. The chair reminded the mem- 

 bers that one of the early meetings of this 

 Association took place in Canada, and 

 that it was at that meeting that the idea of 

 a systematic fire patrol was formulated. 



The annual meeting then adjourned. 



At five o'clock the Association was gra- 

 ciously received by Mrs. L. Z. Leiter at 

 her house on New Hampshire avenue. 



In the evening, Mr. Gifford Pinchot 

 entertained the Association at his resi- 

 dence on Rhode Island avenue. Dr. Mer- 

 riam, Chief of the Biological Survey, 

 showed and explained a large number of 

 colored lantern slides made from pictures 

 taken by the Harriman Expedition. 



II. Report of the Board of Directors. 



The Board of Directors presents the fol- 

 lowing report of the year's progress in 

 matters relating to forestry : 



The thing which is conspicuous above 



all others in the development of the last 



year is the growth and spread of popular 



nt + ki c a interest in the questions 



iNotauie o preset i , ,1 



r T f . which concern the coun- 

 of Interest in , , , . , 

 t, try s forests and in tor- 

 Forestry. { T-l U 



J estry. 1 his has come 



out most clearly in the correspondence of 

 the Association, in experiences and con- 

 versations which its members have had in 

 all parts of the country, and especially in 

 the public press. In the East and in Cali- 

 fornia the interest has shown itself con- 

 spicuously in the activity of forest asso- 

 ciations, and other organizations which 

 have allied themselves with their w T ork. 

 Throughout the Rocky Mountain region 

 there are few associations to give expres- 

 sion to this interest, but it has none the 

 less made itself apparent in the tone of 

 the press and in utterances at public meet- 

 ings of various sorts. 



In the plains region this increasing in- 

 terest has been notable. The number of 

 applications for planting plans and for 

 working plans which have been received 

 by the Department of Agriculture and the 



