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a committee to investigate the question as to the advantages of state nurseries 

 for the propagation, cultivation and sale of foresty material in competition 

 with the business of private owners, and report at the next annual meeting. 



Mr Joshua L. Baily. of Philadelphia, presented a resolution relative to 

 the chestnul tree blight, which was referred to the committee. 



\mriHlmrnts to the By-Laws which were adopted make changes providing 

 that in the future, dues are payable upon election, and in each succeeding 

 year upon the same date, and that officers of the association may hold the 



office also of auditors. 



Mr. Luebkert said : "As a fitting, though somewhat belated, testimonial 

 to i he memory of a former President of the United States, and a statesman 

 who had done very much to foster the work along the line of forest conserva- 

 tion, I move that 'this association elect, as an honorary member for life, Mrs. 



c rover Cleveland." 



This motion was greeted with applause and was carried unanimously by 



a standing vote. 



Mr. J. L. Weaver, one of the newly elected directors, extended the wel- 

 come of the city to the visitors and expressed the city's appreciation of their 



presence. 



The addresses by President Robert P. Bass and Mr. Henry S. Graves, 

 Chief of the Forest Service, which were made during the meeting, appear 

 iM'where in this number, and the address by Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the 

 r.nreau of Entomology, will appear later. 



Before the meeting adjourned, Mr. Charles Lathrop Pack, of Lakewood, 

 X. J., a member of the board of directors, made a vigorous speech in which he 

 spoke about the necessity of every member of the association working to aid 

 liit.- officers of the association, of going home and sending in half a dozen new 

 subscribers and doing all in their power to advance the interests of the 

 association. 



After the general meeting, a meeting of the board of directors was held 

 and routine work in connection with the 'duties of the directors was transacted. 



In the evening over a hundred men assembled at the Commercial Club at 



the smoker tendered by Mr. Otto Luebkert, treasurer of the association, and 



they had a most instructive and enjoyable time. A couple of hours were taken 



up in hearing short addresses about various features of the work of the 



association and in the interests of forest conservation, the addresses being by 



Governor Robert P. Bass, president of the association ; Prof. H. H. Chapman, 



>f the Yale Forest School, the moderator for the evening; Frederick H. 



Newell, Director of the Reclamation Service; F. H. Coville, of the Department 



of Agriculture; W. B. Greeley, of the Forest Service; William L. Hall, of the 



Forest Service; George Otis Smith, Director of the Geological Survey; J. G. 



Peters, of the Forest Service; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Willet M. 



Blanchard, of the Reclamation Service; A. D. Hopkins, of the 



Entomology ; Overton W. Price, of the National Conservation Asso- 



Commissioner Fred Dennett, of the General Land Office ; Dr. David T. 



?airchild, of the Department of Agriculture, and W. R, Brown, of NCAV 



Hampshire. 



After these talks, lunch was served and there was a general personal 

 discussion of forestry and conservation work. 



