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B. White, Montreal; W. C J. Hall, Quebec; 

 J. E. Kotherv, Mount Laurier; Geo. DeLisle, 

 M.P.P., W. 'h. Parker, W. J. MacGowan, 

 F. M. Sjiai-lal, ami James Lawler, Secretary 

 of the Cauailian Forestry Association. The 

 speeches were all of au encouraging nature, 

 anil a feature of the ilinnor was the dis- 



play of a nuinlier of lantern slides showing 

 comlitions in the St. Maurice Valley. 



This work is of such an encouraging na- 

 ture that no excuse will he made for re- 

 ferring to other features of this meeting in 

 future issues of the Canadian Forestry 

 Journal. 



With the Forest Engineers. 



(Contributed by the Ganadian Society of Forest Engineers.) 



Annual Meeting, C. S. F. E. 



The annual meeting of the Canadian So- 

 ciety of Forest Engineers for 1914 was held 

 in Ottawa on February -Ith, beginning at 

 three o 'clock p.m. In the absence of the 

 President, Dr. B. E. Feruow, who was pre- 

 vented by pressure of other duties from 

 being present, the chair was occupied by the 

 Vice-President, Mr. E. H. Campbell. Mem- 

 bers in attendance were Messrs. D. R. Cam- 

 eron, J. B. Dickson, T. W. Dwight, E. H. 

 Finlavson, F. W. H. Jaeombe, A. Knechtel, 

 C. Leavitt, W. N. Millar, G. C. Piche, H. C. 

 Walliii, Ellwood Wilson and E. J. Zavitz 

 (active) and R. G. Lewis and B. R. Morton 

 (associate). 



The Secretary-Treasurer reported the total 

 number of members now on the roll as fifty- 

 nine — forty-four active, thirteen associate, 

 and two honorary — and a substantial cash 

 balance to the credit of the society. 



Important changes were made in the Con- 

 stitution, the one on Mr. Wilson's notice of 

 motion, amending the qualifications for ac- 

 tive membership, and the other, in accord- 

 ance with the Executive Committee's report, 

 making extensive alterations in the method 

 of nomination and election of officers. The 

 clause (Article III, Section 3) regarding the 

 qualifications for active membership in the 

 Society now reads as follows: — 



'Active members shall consist of trained 

 foresters, and the following named persons, 

 in recognition of their eminent services in 

 the interest of forestry previous to the ad- 

 vent of professional foresters, viz., E. 

 Stewart, W. C. J. Hall, E. G. Joly de Lot- 

 biniere, R. H. Campbell and Thos. South- 

 worth. Active members shall be graduates 

 of a forest school in good standing and shall 

 have been in the practice or teaching of some 

 branch of forestry for at least two years, 

 or shall be men who, while not grailuates 

 of a forestry school, have been engaged in 

 active forestry work for at least five years 

 and have, in the opinion of the Executive 



Committee, achieved sufficient distinction to 

 entitle them to active meml)er!-hip. The 

 character and achievement of all such can- 

 didates must be approved by the Executive 

 Committee. All names of candidates must 

 be submitted to the Executive Committee for 

 approval before being submitted to the So- 

 ciety. Only active members shall have the 

 right of voting and holding office. ' 



The change in the method of election of 

 officers consists in the appointment of a 

 Nominating Committee, to be named by the 

 President within four weeks of his election; 

 this committee is to submit to the members, 

 at the time of balloting, a list of three 

 nominees for each office. The right of in- 

 dividual members to make nominations is 

 not, however, done away with. Elections 

 are to be decided on the proportional sys- 

 tem. 



The proposal to form ' District Executive 

 Committees' was approved. These take the 

 place of the Advisory Committees, and con- 

 sist of three members for each district. The 

 districts are (1) Quebec and the Maritime 

 Provinces, (2) Ontario, (3) the Prairie Pro- 

 vinces, and (4) British Columbia, to be elect- 

 ed, at the time of the regular elections of 

 officers, by the members resident in the dis- 

 trict. These District Executive Committees 

 are to take charge of all business pertain- 

 ing exclusively to their respective districts, 

 subject to an appeal to the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the Society. The chairman of the 

 committee is to be designated on the ballot 

 electing the members of the committee, and 

 is to be a member of the Society 's Executive 

 Committee, which now consists of seven 

 members. 



The election of members by general vote 

 of the active members of the Society is 

 done away with. Hereafter the name of the 

 nominee, together with his record, is to be 

 submitted, first, to the District Executive of 

 the district in which he is located. Their 

 judgment, whether favorable or unfavour- 

 able, is to be sent to the Central Executive, 



