A Decexxiai. Recokd 



THE DECENNIAL 



The culiiiiiiation of the first ten years of the hfe of 

 the laboratory came with the Decennial Celebration on 

 July 22 and 23, 1920, at Madison, Wisconsin. That the 

 ten years was fruitful of no small measin*e of service and 

 establishment of good will among those whom the lab- 

 oratory was intended to serve is shown by the registra- 

 tion during the two days' festivities, which were attended 

 by 269 visitors from 22 states and Canada and Porto 

 Rico. Largely drawn from the nation's wood-using 

 and forest and lumbering interests, these representative 

 business men and friends were given opportunity to 

 study the development of the laboratory as it stands 

 today in physical e(iuipment and facilities for future 

 service. On the part of the laboratory, it was the laying 

 of a new foundation stone for the erection of a greater 

 laboratory, the gaining of inspiration to press on to the 

 making of a new ten-year record. Service to the wood- 

 using industries of the country indirectly, and primarily 

 the extension of the usefulness of America's forests, so 

 vital to the welfare of our present standard of civiliza- 

 tion, were the keynotes of the decennial. 



The program and proceedings of the celebration 

 follow. 



