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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January 



lishment of a forest reserve in the 

 Southern Appalachian Reserve, and a 

 plea for education in forestry in the 

 schools and colleges. 



Mr. L. L. Gilbert, secretary of the 

 Alabama Commercial and Industrial 

 Association, at Montgomery, was next 

 called upon. He responded in a brief 

 address, defining the forest needs of 

 the South, and particularly of Ala- 

 bama. 



The chair then asked for the report 

 of the committees. Mr. Cutler, chair- 

 man of the Committee on Affiliation, 

 reported that it had been found prac- 

 ticable and necessary for his commit- 

 tee to confer with the Committee on 

 By-laws, since the plan of affiliation 

 proposed involved many changes of 

 the by-laws The committee recom- 

 mended the appointment by the Board 

 of Directors of a committee of five, 

 who were to consider the question of 

 affiliation with local and state soci- 

 eties in all its phases, and be ready to 

 propose a plan at the next annual 

 meeting of the Association. The re-, 

 port was unanimously adopted. 



The report of the Committee on Re- 

 vision of By-laws was presented by 

 Mr. William L. Hall, as chairman. 

 The committee recommended nume- 

 rous changes, which, after some dis- 

 cussion, were adopted, with minor 

 amendments. 



Mr. George P. Whittlesey, acting 

 for Captain J. B. Adams, chairman of 

 the Audit Committee, reported that 

 that committee had carefully audited 

 the accounts of the treasurer, found 

 the same correct, and recommended 

 the adoption of his report. 



The report of the Committee on 

 Forest Reserve Bills was presented by 

 Mr. George B. Woodruff. Mr. Wood- 

 ruff read a bill prepared by his com- 

 mittee for introduction in Congress. 

 This bill embodies all of the four indi- 

 vidual measures which have been in- 

 troduced by Messrs. Gallinger, Brown- 

 low, Overman, and Currier, The re- 

 port of this committee was unani- 

 mously adopted. 



The report of the Committee on 

 Nominations -was made by Mr. Wil- 

 liam L. Hall, in place of the chairman, 

 Professor Graves. The nominations 

 were presented to the meeting, and all 

 elected by ballot. The new officers 

 are: President, Hon. James Wilson 

 (re-elected) ; vice-presidents at large 

 (under new by-laws), James W. Pin- 

 chot, F. E. Weyerhaeuser, Dr. Edward 

 Everett Hale, John L. Kaul, Dr. B. E. 

 Fernow ; treasurer, Otto Luebkert ; 

 Board of Directors (under new by- 

 laws), Hon. James Wilson, Ex-Gover- 

 nor N. J. Bachelder, Rutherford P. 

 Hayes, George P. Whittlesey, Gifford 

 Pinchot, F. H. Newell, George K. 

 Smith, Allan Chamberlain, William S. 

 Harvey, James H. Cutler, Prof. Henry 

 S. Graves, Dr. Albert Shaw, William 

 L. Hall, Samuel Spencer, and H. A. 

 Pressey. 



The Committee on Resolutions then 

 made its report, Mr. Suter presenting 

 the same in place of its chairman, Mr. 

 Ayres. All of the resolutions recom- 

 mended by the committee were unani- 

 mously adopted by the meeting. 



There being no further business be- 

 fore the Association, the meeting then 

 adjourned sine die. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FOREST 

 RESERVE BILL. 



The Committee on Forest Reserve 

 Bills reported that it had considered 

 the bills for creating the Appalachian 

 and the White Mountain Forest Re- 

 serves, now before Congress, as intro- 

 duced by Senators Gallinger and Over- 

 man, and Representatives Brownlow 

 and Currier, respectively, and, with 

 very slight modifications, amalgamated 

 those bills into one entitled "A Bill for 

 the Purchase of Two National Forest 

 Reserves in the Appalachian Moun- 

 tains and the White Mountains, to be 

 Known as the Appalachian Forest Re- 

 serve and the White Mountain Forest 

 Reserve, respectively." 



The committee offered to the Asso- 

 ciation this amalgamated bill and rec- 

 ommended that the congressmen who 

 introduced the four individual bills 



