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for speed and not worry over the factor of safety, should be applied. We have 

 not put on enough speed, but I hope that our new Board of Directors will take your 

 remarks to heart and pay less attention to the factor of safety and a little more 

 to the increase of speed. 



Mr. E. G. Joly de Lotbiniere. Gentlemen, There is one more resolution I 

 wish to propose, and I know you will receive it with enthusiasm and unanimity. 

 I wish to propose a vote of thanks to our President for the splendid way in which 

 he has conducted this meeting, and not only that, but to thedevoted wayin which he 

 has attended to the routine business of the Association during the year. (Applause) 

 I know that he is a very busy man, yet I know that whenever the Forestry meet- 

 ings came up this year, no matter what his other engagements might have been, 

 he was always ready to sacrifice them and go to Ottawa or wherever the meeting 

 was and attend to the work. He has been a devoted President and as such I wish 

 to offer him the thanks of the Canadian Forestry Association. I trust that this 

 resolution of mine will be received as it should be with unanimity. 



The resolution was carried with loud applause. 



The PRESIDENT. Gentlemen, It is very difficult for me to thank you suffi- 

 ciently for the kind words from my friend Mr. Joly de Lotbiniere, which you have 

 so warmly endorsed. It is a very great compliment in the first place to be elected 

 President of this Association, and in the second place it is a much greater compli- 

 ment, that at the end of a year of office the members of the Association should 

 have given me so warm a token of their approval. I am afraid Mr. Lotbiniere 

 has painted too highly colored a picture. I have merely tried to do my duty, and 

 I think it is the duty of any man elected President of this Association to put the 

 business of the Association in the first place and his own affairs in the second place. 

 Any man not prepared to do that should not offer himself as President of this Asso- 

 ciation. 



Mr. STEWART. Before we part, I think it will meet with the approbation of 

 everyone present that I should present a motion calling for a hearty vote of thanks 

 to our retiring Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. R. H. Campbell, for the able manner in 

 which he has conducted our business for so many years. When our Association 

 was first formed I agreed to become Secretary if he would become my assistant, 

 and during all those years he has done the bulk of the work. Even when I was 

 nominally Secretary, he did most of the clerical work,- and I have great pleasure 

 in moving a hearty vote of thanks to him. 



Mr. LITTLE. I have the greatest pleasure in seconding this motion. Mr. 

 Campbell has probably done more than any other person in the Association, with 

 the exception perhaps of Mr. Stewart, to advance its interests. 



The PRESIDENT. I heartily concur in all that has been said. It was only the 



