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Canadian Forestry Journal, February, ipi6. 



The Annual Meeting 



450 New Members Joined — Revenues Increased — "Contributing 

 Memberships" Added to Constitution — Excellent Addresses 



on Variety of Topics. 



Lt.-Col. J. B. Miller, President of the Poison Iron Works, 

 Toronto, elected President of the Association for 1916; Hon. 

 Sydney Fisher, Vice-President. New Directors: Alex. Mac- 

 Laren, F. C. Whitman, and Albert Grigg, Deputy Minister of 

 Lands and Forests for Ontario. New Territorial Vice-Presi- 

 dents : Hon. T. C. Norris for Manitoba, and Hon. Walter Scott 

 for Saskatchewan. 



The Constitution of the Association was amended to per- 

 mit of a new classification of membership, known as "Contri- 

 buting," the annual fee for which was placed at five dollars. 

 The Annual Membership retains the same status as formerly, 

 the fee being one dollar. The Life Membership was raised 

 from ten dollars to twenty-five dollars. 



The attendance was large at both morning and afternoon 

 sessions. 



An illustrated lecture on "Closer Utilization of Forest 

 Products" was given during the afternoon by Hon. W. R. 

 Brown, President of the New Mampshire- Forestry Commis- 

 sion; "The Work of the St. Maurice Forest Protective Associa- 

 tion" by S. Lawrence de Carteret ; "Forestry and the Future" 

 by R. H. Campbell, Director of Forestry; "Forestry Work in 

 Ontario" by E. J. Zavitz, Provincial Forester of Ontario ; "For- 

 estry and the Lumber Industry" by W. T. Van Dusen, of the 

 B. C. Forest Service. 



A Joint Banquet was held with the Canadian Lumber- 

 men's Association, Commission of Conservation, and Canadian 

 Society of Forest Engineers at the Chateau Laurier, January 

 19th and was regarded as a highly successful event. 



While not assuming the dimen- 

 sions of a convention, the annual ga- 

 thering of the directors and members 

 of the Canadian Forestry Associa- 

 tion on January 20th, at Ottawa, 

 extended the usual brief programme 

 of business into an all-day session, 

 with several special addresses on 

 important topics. The meetings 

 proved of keen interest to the audi- 

 ences which throughout the day 

 were uniformly of good size. The 



large convention room, loaned for 

 the occasion by the Chateau Laurier, 

 proved ideal for the purpose. About 

 the walls were built up special ex- 

 hibits by the Forestry Branch, in- 

 cluding an elaborate display by the 

 Forest Products Laboratories, by 

 the Entomological Branch, the U. S. 

 Forest Service (which kindly loaned 

 a set of model forests illustrating 

 "good and bad lumbering"), and ex- 

 hibits of other organizations. These 



