been a part of the Michigan World's Fair exhibit at 

 St. Louis, Mo., in 1904. The arrange- 

 The rnent of cross sections of logs and 



Exhibit boards was very artistic and the room 



was decorated with numerous photo- 

 graphs of lumbering scenes. Mottoes upon the walls 

 indicated the importance of forestry and outlined the 

 needed work to be accomplished through a Michigan 

 Forestry Association. 



Prof. Bogue of the Agricultural College had brought 

 very interesting specimens of seedlings of various spe- 

 cies of forest trees of different ages, to illustrate their 

 rapidity of growth from the seed. 



A local committee from the Grand 

 Committee Rapids Board of Trade consisting of 



on Saml. M. Lemon, Amos S. Musselman, 



Reception Jas. R. Wylie, Danl. McCoy and Robt. 



D. Graham, was in evidence on the 

 morning of the Convention greeting friends from out- 

 side and making people acquainted with each other 

 who had never met before, and paving the way for the 

 opening of the Convention. 



Promptly at 10 o'clock on the morning of Sept. 29, 

 1905, Chas. W. Garfield called the Convention to order 

 in the vestry of Park Congregational Church, and in- 

 troduced Mr. A. W. Bell who led the congregated peo- 

 ple in singing America. Every voice 

 The seemed to be in evidence and the 



Opening music put the membership of the 



Convention in hearty sympathy with 

 each other. Dr. R. W. McLaughlin was next intro- 

 duced and led the assembly in a most appropriate 

 prayer service. Again Mr. Bell, who had distributed 

 copies of the verses in advance, led in singing Michi- 

 gan, My Michigan. 



On motion of Prof. Roth, Hon. Arthur Hill, of Sagi- 

 naw, was made temporary chairman of the meeting, 

 Mr. T. A. Green, of Ontonagon, acting as temporary 

 secretary. Mr. Hill, in taking the chair, spoke strongly 

 of the needs of Michigan in matters of 

 Mr. Hill reforestation and stated that we were 



Chairman ripe for the organization of a society 



which should devote its best endeavors 

 in creating an interest in reforestation and especially 

 in the matter of rehabilitating State lands which were 

 not only a menace, but a blemish upon the fair fame of 

 our State. He stated that there was really no set pro- 

 gram of speeches, and it was expected that from the 

 abundance of the heart the work of the Convention 

 would develop. He then called upon Mr. Green to 

 make a statement to the Convention 

 Mr. Green's concerning the preliminary work which 

 Story had been accomplished through his in- 



terest and exertion. Mr. Green in a 

 very pretty speech, recounted the story of how he be- 

 came interested in the forest movement and how suc- 

 cessful he had been in gathering membership for the 

 opening of this Convention, stating, however, that his 

 optimism had received something of a check because 

 he had laid out to start this Convention with the state- 

 ment that 1,000 people had already enrolled themselves 

 upon its roster of members. While lie had not reached 

 this number, he hoped that very soon after the Asso- 

 ciation should be organized, people would rally to its 

 support and the thousand names would be in evidence. 



""" On motion of Prof. Roth, the chairman was author- 

 ized to name a committee on permanent organization, 

 whose duty should be to present articles of association 

 and nominate a roster of permanent officers; also a 

 committee on resolutions, who should prepare a state- 



