CANADIAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



were received during the year, and the Secretary was instructed to write 

 these Governments respectfully requesting an increase of grant; and also 

 to write to Governments which had not contributed, placing before them 

 the claims of the Association. This has been done, but so far no increases 

 have been granted, nor have Governments taken up the work, which were 

 not doing so before. 



Several of the leading banks the Montreal, Commerce, Merchants 

 and Molsons have assisted by making their branch managers members 

 of the Association, and the Bank of British North America has encouraged 

 its managers to join. The Bank of New Brunswick was added to this list 

 upon the solicitation of the Secretary during his visit to New Brunswick. 

 It is felt that these institutions should be thanked for their assistance and 

 that others be urged to co-operate with the Association in like manner. 



The total receipts for the year 1909, including a balance of $416.74 

 from 1908, were $6,856.45, and the expenditure $4,295.35, leaving a bal- 

 ance of $2,561.10 on hand. The details of this will appear in the Treas- 

 urer's statement. 



The total number of members, now on the list, is 2,471, as compared 

 with 1905, at the last Annual Meeting, an increase of ^66. This total 

 will be somewhat reduced upon the scrutiny of the list when those in ar- 

 rears who will not continue will have to be dropped. 



The publication work has gone on during the year without much 

 change. The Journal has been issued quarterly with an average of about 

 2,750 copies of each issue, the surplus copies being used to send out to 

 probable members, with the view of extending the membership. The ef- 

 forts during the year to secure the publication of the Journal monthly 

 were not successful, the publishers approached demanding more than it 

 was felt the Association could give. Of the English edition of the Annual 

 Report 3,000 copies were printed, and of the French edition 2,000. The 

 thanks of the Association in regard to the latter are due to Mr. G. C. 

 Piche who, personally, and through his students, arranged for the editing 

 and translating of the Report. The copies of this Report were sent out to 

 the Cures and to municipal officers in Quebec and to the French news- 

 papers. 



The plan of sending out bulletins to the newspapers has been contin- 

 ued, and these have been freely used. These will be further explained in 

 the report of the Assistant Secretary. 



During 1909 the Dominion Forestry Branch published the first com- 

 prehensive statistics of the forest products of Canada in Bulletin No. 4, 

 compiled by Mr. A. H. D. Ross, and Bulletin No. 8, compiled by Messrs. 

 H. R. McMillan and G. A. Gutches, both of which are important ad- 

 ditions to our knowledge of Canadian forest wealth. 



The organization of the Canadian Commission of Conservation, the 

 undertaking of a forest survey in Nova Scotia, the extension of the fire 

 protection system in Ontario and Quebec, and the establishment of a fire 

 protection system in New Brunswick, the great increase in the work of the 

 Forestry Branch in the West, the adoption of new regulations in British 

 Columbia, the growth of the Forestry Departments of the Universities of 

 Toronto and New Brunswick, and the increased interest shown by the 

 people everywhere in the Conservation of Natural Resources show that 



