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PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May, 1908. 
there is no entomologist who can recall without 
sadness or bitterness some favorable collecting place wiped out 
“existence by the extension of towns or cities, or by the re- 
Pia of woods and thickets. Even without mentioning the 
i a of forests as sources of lumber supply, as conservers 
____ Of moisture, as health-restoring agencies and as recreation- 
areas, our fraternity ought readily to sympathize with those 
who are doing what they can to save the few large tracts of . 
_ woodland which still remain in the eastern United States. 
___ One of these is in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, 
ea is in the Southern Appalachians. Bills to acquire these 
ee ond ape as federal forest reservations are now before the 
pa of Representatives at Washington, and have been ap- 
proved do American Civic Association. At the present 
3 igen J bills are in the hands of the Judiciary Commit- 
_ tee of the House where, some fear, they will slumber undis- 
___ turbed until the end of the session. 
i Let all those who desire to see their country’s natural re- 
and strengthened, all those who love na- 
ife, all naturalists, botanists and entomolo- 
by spoken word or written letter to make 
ives and Senators at Washington 
forests must be acquired for the Nation and for- 
action of this present Congress. 
suggested that in addition to the members from each 
state and district, letters and resolutions insisting 
action be addressed at once to the speaker, Hon. Joseph 
: Hon, John J. Jenkins, Chairman of the Judiciary 
Committee; Hon. James A. Tawney, Chairman of the Appro- 
priations Committee; and the Hon. Charles F. Scott, Chair- 
man of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representa- 
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