THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING 



DEPARTING from its usual plan 

 of holding the annual meeting 

 in Washington the American 

 Forestry Association held its 

 34th annual session in New York City 

 on January 11th, and the change met 

 with great favor among the many mem- 

 bers in New England, New York, New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania and other con- 

 tiguous territory who were but seldom 

 able to get to Washington for a meeting. 



There was a gratifyingly large at- 

 tendance and much enthusiasm over 

 the work of the Association and what 

 it has been able to accomplish, while 

 the papers and discussions during the 

 day resulted in many admirable sugges- 

 tions for the activities of the Association 

 during the present year. 



The officers elected are : 



President, Dr. Henry S. Drinker, 

 president of Lehigh University, who 

 was reelected. 



New Vice-presidents: Hon. Wm. H. 

 Taft, former president of the United 

 States; Hon. John W. Weeks, U. S. 

 Senator from Massachusetts; Hon. 

 George Pardee, former Governor of 

 California; Mr. Theodore L. Bristol, 

 former president Connecticut State 

 Forestry Association ; and Mrs. Emmons 

 Crocker, of Fitchburg, Mass., former 

 chairman of the Conservation Depart- 

 ment of the General Federation of 

 Women's Clubs. 



Treasurer, John E. Jenks. Washing- 

 ton, D. C, reelected. 



Directors for three years W. R. 

 Brown, Berlin, N. H.; John E. Jenks, 

 Washington, D. C. ; Charles F. Quincv, 

 New York City; E. A. Sterling, Phila- 

 delphia; and Capt. J. B. White, Kansas 

 City, Mo. ; all reelected. 



Director for two years William B. 

 Greeley, Washington, D. C. 



Auditor E. A. Sterling, Philadelphia, 

 reelected. 



President Drinker reported that the 

 financial statement for the year, which 

 was being examined by the auditing 

 committee, showed that the Association 

 was sound financially and without any 

 debts. 



The Secretary's report in brief was as 

 follows : 



Nineteen hundred and fourteen was 

 marked by considerable development 

 work by the Association. A campaign 

 was successfully conducted in Virginia 

 for the passage of a State forestry law 

 and the creation of a State forester; 

 and the people of South Carolina, 

 Alabama and Texas were aroused by 

 publicity measures to a realization of 

 the need of similar laws in their States. 

 Texas organized a State Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, which, aided by the American 

 Forestry Association, is now striving 

 to get a forestry law passed by the 

 Legislature. A draft of a model forestry 

 law was prepared for Game and Fish 

 Commissioner John H. Wallace, of 

 Alabama, and is embodied in his 

 recommendations to the Legislature. 

 The Association also cooperated in the 

 organization of some county and town- 

 ship forest conservation and fire protec- 

 tive associations. There was a marked 

 increase in requests for advice and 

 information about trees, woodlots and 

 forests from all over the country, 

 indicating not only an increase in inter- 

 est but extension of the knowledge of 

 the work the Association is doing. 

 Forest schools were supplied with valu- 

 able unpublished reports of the Forest 

 Service needed for their libraries, and 

 to a number of schools, societies and 

 individuals was sent information relating 

 to forest conservation. 



"Among other features of the Associa- 

 tion's educational work was the main- 

 tenance of a booth and the distribution 

 of forest literature at the Forest Prod- 

 ucts Expositions at Chicago and New 

 York, and the addresses on forestry 

 at the Chautauqua, New York assembly, 

 were valuable. Another feature of this 

 work is the wide publication in maga- 

 zines and newspapers during the year of 

 articles about the Association and its 

 work, and the republication of illustra- 

 tions and articles from American For- 

 estry in some of the leading magazines 



of -the country. 



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