140 The Foeest Products Laboratory 



We have a letter from Dr. Stanley Coulter whom all of you know 

 as one of the most prominent men in conservation movements : 



"I acknowledge with thanks invitation to be present at the De- 

 cennial Celebration and regret that it was not received in time to allow 

 me to arrange my j^lans so as to be present. As a matter of fact it was 

 forwarded me here. 



"The work of the Forest Products Laboratory has been of such 

 scope and significance that anyone interested in conservation prob- 

 lems would feel eager to have a part in a celebration recognizing its 

 past achievements and at which one would doubtless learn something 

 of its plans for the future." 



Those of you who have been in touch w^th the development of the 

 naval stores industry and the conservation of rosin due to the improved 

 methods of tapping yellow pine trees for resin are familiar with the 

 name of Dr. Charles Herty who did such excellent pioneer Avork in the 

 development of the present methods of turpentining. Dr. Herty wires 

 congratulations and best wishes to the Forest Products Laboratory 

 regretting his inability to attend the Decennial Celebration. 



Xot only Dr. Herty who started the work but those who have 

 benefited by the researches of the laboratory in pine distillation feel 

 regret at not being here. We have from the Turpentine and Rosin 

 Producers' Association a telegram reading as follows — "Congratula- 

 tions on accomplishments during your ten years at Madison." 



Not only in the United States are there those who wish the lab- 

 oratory well but Ave have from Erie, Pa., a telegram from the repre- 

 sentative of the Norwegian Government — "Heartiest congratulations 

 to you and all your friends at your grand institution." 



The following letter from Cheltenham, England, was received— 

 "I thank you and your committee for your invitation to attend the 

 Decennial Celebration on July 22nd, but regret that it is impossible 

 for me to attend. I take this opportunity of expressing to the General 

 Committee and esi3ecially to Professor Winslow, the great assistance 

 which the publications which he was good enough to send me, have been 

 to the Committee on Aeroplane Timber, of which I was Chairman, 

 and thank you most heartily on behalf of the Committee for these most 

 valuable papers." 



As you all know there is in the United States a Cham])er of Com- 

 merce which represents in the business life the institution which is sup- 



