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location; and that in the case of townships now under license 

 which are found to contain more than fifty per cent, of land 

 suitable for agriculture, the licensee be given a reasonable time 

 in which to remove the merchantable timV)er before the land is 

 opened for settlement. 



Resolved, — That this Association views with satisfaction 

 the improvements made in the forest fire protective services 

 of the Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec, 

 Ontario and British Columbia. 



Resolved, — That a Committee be appointed by the 

 President of this Association to consider the following methods 

 of advancing popular forestry education: (1) The preparation 

 and distribution of forestry bulletins suitable for use in both 

 country and city schools; (2) The inclusion of elementary 

 forestry instruction in the text-books on Agriculture and Nature 

 Study now in use in the public and high schools ; (3) The prepara- 

 tion and distribution of maps and lantern slides suitable for 

 addresses on forestry topics to be delivered in schools and at 

 Farmers' Institute meetings. 



Resolved, — That a text-book on forestry should be com- 

 piled from the reports and other literature published by this 

 Association, and distributed for use in our schools and colleges. 



Moved by Mr. Achille Bergevin, seconded by the Hon. Mr. 

 Grimmer, and Resolved, — That Mr. Wm. Little's eulogy of 

 the service rendered this Association by the late Sir Henri Jolv 

 de Lotbiniere be published in the report of this Convention. 



Resolutions were also passed thanking the Board of 

 Governors of the University for the use of Convocation Hall; 

 to the Toronto Board of Trade for their invitation to the Asso- 

 ciation to hold their convention and for the banquet ; to the 

 press throughout the Dominion for pubHshing the Association's 

 bulletins and the accounts of the Convention and to the railways 

 for granting the reduced fares. 



Those in Attendance. 



Among those present at the various sessions of the Con- 

 vention were His Excellency the Governor-General; His Honor 

 J. M. Gibson, Lieut. -Governor of Ontario; Hon. W. C. Edwards, 

 Ottawa; Hon. Frank Cochrane, Minister of Mines and Lands 

 for Ontario; Hon. W. C. H. Grimmer, Surveyor-General of New 

 Brunswick; Messrs. Wm. Little, Montreal, Que.; H. M. Price, 

 Quebec, Que., and Aubrey White. Toronto, ex- Presidents of 

 the Association; T. Southworth, Toronto, Vice-President; R. 

 H. Campbell, Ottawa, Dominion Superintendent of Forestry; 

 Dr. B. E. Fernow, Dean, Faculty of Forestn*, University of 

 Toronto ; Prof. Walter Mulford, of the Department of Forestry 

 of the University of Michigan ; Rev. Dr. A. E. Burke, of Toronto • 



