FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January 



ing, which can now be adapted closely to 

 the various needs of the school. It is 

 expected that all classes will be resumed 

 without interruption at the opening of 

 the term on January 9. 



An idea of the loss maybe gained 

 from the fact that the insurance allowed 

 by the underwriters is $17,000. 



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Water and The annual meeting of 

 Forest the CaliforniaWater and 



Convention. Forest Association was 

 held, in accordance with 

 the provisions of its by-laws, on Thurs- 

 day. December 10, at 10.30 a. m., in the 

 rooms of the Chamber of Commerce, San 

 Francisco. 



The reports of the Bureau of Forestry 

 and the Geological Survey upon the 

 work being done in California were not 

 available at this date, and, as no busi- 

 ness of importance was to be transacted, 

 the meeting was adjourned until some 

 day in April, when the reports will be 

 available. The date and place will be 

 announced later. 



At the adjourned meeting the ques- 

 tion of future legislation will be taken 

 up, more especially such legislation as 

 may be deemed advisable to amend the 

 water laws of California, and all sug- 

 gestions on this point will be received. 

 After the reports of the investigations 

 have been received it will be known 

 whether it will be necessary or not to 

 appear before the next legislature of 

 California with a request that the appro- 

 priation made by the state at its last 

 legislature for the purpose of conduct- 

 ing investigations in connection with the 

 departments at Washington should be 

 continued for the years 1905 and 1906. 



Massachusetts The sixth annual meet- 

 Forestry ing of the Massachusetts 



Association. Forestry Association was 

 held December 10, in 

 Boston, at the rooms of the Twentieth 

 Century Club. The reports of the sec- 

 retary and treasurer were read. Mr. 

 T. F. Borst, forester of the association, 

 gave a short account of his work of the 

 last few months. The following officers 

 were elected for the ensuing year: 



President Henry P. \Yalcott, of Cam- 

 bridge. 



Vice-Presidents Lucia A. Mead, of 

 Boston; William C. Whitney, of New 

 York and Washington; W T illiam F.. 

 Gale, of Springfield; Mary L. Ware, of 

 Boston; James S. Russell, of Milton; 

 Charles Francis Adams, of Lincoln; 

 Richard T. Fisher, of Washington, D.C. 



Secretary and Treasurer Edwin A. 

 Start, of Billerica. 



Additional members of Executive 

 Committee James H. Bowditch, of 

 Brookline; Frederick L. Olmsted, Jr., 

 of Brookline; J. Rayner Edmands, of 

 Cambridge; Katharine W. S. Noble, of 

 Boston; Mary L. Tucker, of Newton; 

 Allen Chamberlain, of Winchester; Har- 

 old L. Frost, of Belmont; Emma G~ 

 Cummings, of Brookline; George B. 

 Inches of Graf ton; Edmund S. Clark^ 

 of Framingham; Richard A. Hale, of 

 Lawrence; Cora C. Stuart Jones, of 

 Boston. 



Auditing Committee Frederic Cun- 

 ningham, of Brookline; George M. 

 Weed, of Newton; Harlan P. Kelsey, 

 of Salem. 



New Forest It is reported by Mr. 

 Organization. William R. Lazenby 

 that at the annual meet- 

 ing of the Ohio State Horticultural So- 

 ciety, held at Delaware, December 9- 

 1 1 , the Ohio State Forestry Society was 

 organized with about 50 charter mem- 

 bers. 



The object of the society, as stated 

 in the simple constitution adopted, is 

 as follows : "To develop a public in- 

 terest in forestry by disseminating- 

 knowledge of trees and tree planting ; 

 by encouraging the preservation and 

 improvement of the existing forests and 

 woodlands ; by inciting the more gen- 

 eral use of trees for shelter, shade, and 

 ornament, and the growing of trees as a 

 farm crop, and by cooperating as far as 

 possible with the work of the United 

 States Bureau of Forestry and that of 

 the American Forestry Association." 



It is expected that the first regular 

 meeting will be held at Columbus about 

 the middle of January, 1904. The offi- 

 cers are : W. I. Chamberlain, Hudson,. 



