Forestry and Irrigation. 



Vol. VIII. 



DECEMBER, 1902. 



No. 12. 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



Meeting; of 

 American 

 Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, 



The annual meeting of 

 the American Forestry 

 Association was held at 

 the Atlantic Building, 

 Washington, D. C, at 

 10 o'clock a. m., on December 10. The 

 meeting was called to order by Mr. F. H. 

 Newell, and the minutes of the pre- 

 vious meeting were read by Mr. Geo. P. 

 Whittlesy, Recording Secretary. The 

 meeting was then adjourned, to meet 

 .at the same place on December 31, at 

 10 o'clock a. m. 



The object of postponing all business 

 until December 31 was to enable the 

 many members who wish to attend the 

 meeting of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, De- 

 cember 29 to January 3, to be present 

 at both meetings. 







An Important The fifty-second annual 

 Meetingf. meeting of the Ameri- 



can Association for the 

 Advancement of Science and first of the 

 ' ' Convocation Week ' ' meetings will be 

 held in Washington, D. C, December 

 27, 1902, to January 3, 1903. A meet- 

 ing of the executive committee of the 

 -council (consisting of the general secre- 

 tary, secretary of the council, the per- 

 manent secretary, and the secretaries of 

 all the sections) will be held in the 

 council-room of the Cosmos Club at 

 noon on Saturda}-, December 27. The 

 permanent secretarj- has been notified 

 that the following societies will meet in 

 affiliation with the Association at the 

 Washington meeting : 



The American Anthropological Asso- 

 ciation, American Chemical Society, 

 American Folk-lore Society, American 

 Microscopical Society, American Mor- 



phological Society, American Philo- 

 sophical Association, American Phys- 

 ical Society, American Phj^siological 

 Society, American Psychological Asso- 

 ciation, American Society of Natural- 

 ists, Association of American Anato- 

 mists, Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists, Astronomical and Astro- 

 physical Society of America, Botanical 

 Society of America, Botanists of the 

 Central and Western States, Geological 

 Society of America, The National Geo- 

 graphic Society, Naturalists of the Cen- 

 tral States, Society of American Bacte- 

 riologists, Society for Plant Morphology 

 and Physiology, Society for the Promo- 

 tion of Agricultural Science, and Zoolo- 

 gists of the Central and Western States. 

 The officers of the local committee for 

 the Washington meeting are: Charles D. 

 Walcott, president; G. K. Gilbert, vice- 

 president; Marcus Benjamin, secretary; 

 executive committee, Marcus Benjamin, 

 David T. Day, G. K. Gilbert, Gilbert H. 

 Grosvenor, L. O. Howard, George M. 

 Kober, W J McGee, C. E. Munroe, and 

 Charles D. Walcott. 



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Iowa Park The second annual 



and Forestry meeting of the Iowa 

 Association. Park and Forestry As- 

 sociation was held at 

 Des Moines, December 8 and 9, 1902. 

 Much enthusiasm was manifested at the 

 sessions and the papers read were in- 

 teresting and dealt particularl}- with the 

 practical aspects of parking and forests 

 from the aesthetic and economic stand- 

 points. The papers and their authors 

 were as follows : ' ' Dendro-Chemistry , ' ' 

 Dr. J. B. Weems, Iowa State College, 

 Ames; "Our Wild Plants for Parks 

 and Gardens," Wesley Greene, Iowa 



