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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



May 



there is a paper or address by some 

 member or guest of the society on some 

 timely topic in connection with forest 

 work. In addition, there is open dis- 

 cussion of the question under considera- 

 tion. Members and guests present are 

 permitted and encouraged to question 

 the speaker in order to bring out all pos- 

 sible information on the topic before the 

 meeting. The multitude of forest prob- 

 lems confronting American foresters, 

 and the only recent adoption of forestry 

 to any extent, makes this association of 

 ideas and experiences of great mutual 

 benefit. These meetings of the Society 

 of American Foresters afford young 

 foresters unusual opportunities to get in 

 touch with the leading thought and 

 achievements in their profession. 



Membership in the Society of Ameri- 

 can Foresters is divided into three 

 classes : active, associate, and honorary. 

 Active members are chosen only from 

 the ranks of professional foresters ; asso- 

 ciate members are selected from those 

 gentlemen, not professional foresters, 

 who have rendered notable service to 

 the cause of forestry ; honorary mem- 

 bers are chosen from professional for- 

 esters whose fields of work lie outside of 

 the United States and its possessions. 



The membership of the Society of 

 American Foresters includes the fol- 

 lowing persons : 



Active members. Gifford Pinchot, For- 

 ester, U. S. Department of Agriculture ; 

 Prof. Henry S. Graves, Director, Yale 

 Forest School ; H. B. Ayres, U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey ; Dr. C. A. Schenck, Di- 

 rector, Biltmore Forest School ; Dr. B. E. 

 Fernow, Director, New York State Col- 

 lege of Forestry ; Dr. J. T. Rothrock, 

 Forest Commissioner of Pennsylvania ; 

 Dr. John Gifford, New York State Col- 

 lege of Forestry ; Prof. James W. 

 Tourney, Yale Forest School ; E. M. 

 Griffith, Bureau of Forestry, Philip- 

 pine Islands; and Filibert Roth, Overton 

 W. Price, Wm. L. Hall, Ralph S. Hos- 

 mer, Thos. H. Sherrard, F. E. Olm- 

 stead, Geo. B. Sudworth, Edward T. 

 Allen, John Foley, Henry Grinnell, G. 

 Fred. Schwarz, H. J. Tompkins, all in 

 the Bureau of Forestry. 



Associate Members. Hon. James Wil- 

 son, Secretary of Agriculture ; Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt ; Col. William F. Fox, 

 Superintendent of State Forests of New 

 York ; Gen. C. C. Andrews, Chief Fire 

 Warden of Minnesota; F. H. Newell, 

 Chief Engineer, Reclamation Service ; 

 Henry Gannett, Geographer, U. S. 

 Geological Survey ; Arnold Hague, 

 U. S. Geological Survey ; Hon. Chas. 

 D. Walcott, Director of U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey ; Frederick V. Coville, 

 Botanist, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture ; Prof. J. A. Holmes, State 

 Geologist of North Carolina ; Otto 

 Luebkert, Bureau of Forestry ; Geo. P. 

 Whittlesey ; Hon. Frank S. Black, ex- 

 Governor of New York ; Ex-President 

 Grover Cleveland ; Dr. W. Seward 

 Webb; Hon. Wm. C. Whitney; Dr. 

 B. L. Wiggins, Vice-Chancellor of Uni- 

 versity of the South ; J. W. Pinchot ; 

 Geo. W. Vanderbilt ; Dr. N. H. Egle- 

 ston ; Hon. Willock Noble ; Prof. Wm. 

 H. Brewer, Yale University ; Hon. 



D. R. Francis ; Prof. Wm. R. Dudley, 

 Iceland Stanford University ; Capt. Geo. 

 P. Ahern, Chief of Forestry Bureau,. 

 Manila, P. I.; Dr. C. Hart Merriam, 

 Chief of Biological Survey, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture ; Prof. Y. M. 

 Spalding, University of Michigan ; Dr. 

 Charles E. Bessey, University of Ne- 

 braska ; Hon. Robert W. Furnas, ex- 

 Governor of Nebraska ; Prof. Chas. S. 

 Sargent ; Prof. J. G. Jack ; Judge John 

 B. Waldo ; Prof. C. E. Faxon ; Hon. 



E. A. Hitchcock, Secretary of the In- 

 terior ; Dr. Wolcott Gibbs ; Dr. Morris 

 K. Jesup. 



Ex-President Benjamin Harrison, 

 Hon. J. Sterling Morton, and Dr. 

 Charles Mohr were also associate mem- 

 bers of the Society of American For- 

 esters. 



Colorado Professor L. G. Carpen- 



Agricultural ter, of the Department 

 College. of Civil and Irrigation 



Engineering of Colo- 

 rado Agricultural College and Director 

 of the State Experiment Station at Ft. 

 Collins, has been granted a temporary 



