FRANK. GLOVER HEATON, Editor 



CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1909 



FRONTISPIECE 



THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OPENING SESSION 63 



Address of Hon. James Wilson 64 Address of the Rev. Edward Everett Hale... 66 



AFTERNOON SESSION 68 



Paper by Prank H. Lamb 69 Summary of Prof. H. II. Chapman's Speech.. 73 



EVENING SESSION 76 



Address of Hon. J. E. Rnnedell 76 Lecture by Dr. Bailey Willis 82 



SECOND DAY'S SESSIONS 83 



Address of F. W. Rane 84 Report of Board of Directors 87 



Report of Committee on Resolutions 86 Address of Prof. W. N. Clifford 88 



TREASURER'S REPORT FOR 1908 90 



THE JOINT CONSERVATION CONFERENCE Concluded from January 92 



THE WOMAN'S NATIONAL RIVERS AND HARBORS CONGRESS 



By Lydia Adams-Williams 98 



THE APPALACHIAN-WHITE MOUNTAIN HEARING 102 



IN THE GIANT FOREST OF THE SIERRAS Po:m By Alexander Blair Thaw... 104 

 EDITORIAL 



Resignation of Secretary Wilson 105 What Are We Going to Do About It? 107 



Our Annual Meeting 105 Keep What We Have 108 



A Peculiar Fact 106 Eternal Vigilance 108 



The Magazine's Owners 106 Two Striking Comments 109 



Our Members Should Help 100 A Nation's Prodigal Waste 109 



The President's Message 107 The Conservation Commission 109 



HOPE FOR FORESTRY LEGISLATION 110 



COMMUNICATIONS n i 



THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICAN FORESTS By Richard H. Donai Boerker... 114 

 NEWS AND NOTES- 



Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope 118 Mr. Pinchot and the Farmers 119 



To Connect the Atlantic With the Gulf 118 Investigation of Water Resources of the Ohio 



Pan-American Irrigation Congress Suggested. .. 110 Valley 121 



Miami and Erie Waterways to Become Ship Canal 119 Deep Well Drilling 122 



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