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country who may wish to spend a summer in 

 the mountains. The usua,l cool weather and 

 the abundant recreational facilities make the 

 mountains an ideal place for summer work. 



I. E. W. 



PROGRAM ON CONSERVATION OF THE 



SECTION OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC 



SCIENCES OF THE AMERICAN 



ASSOCIATION 



Section K will hold several sessions at the 

 Boston meeting devoted to the various aspects 

 of our natural resources and their conserva- 

 tion. Invitation papers by many leading spe- 

 cialists have already been promised. This pro- 

 gram will constitute a symposium, or a series 

 of symposia, that promises to be nationally of 

 very great importance. It will interest all 

 scientists and all workers in education, as well 

 as all Avho are looking forward toward the 

 betterment of national and international wel- 

 fare and living conditions generally. The sec- 

 tion is particularly fortunate in having, as its 

 vice-president and chairman for the current 

 year. Colonel Henry S. Graves, dean of the 

 School of Forestry of Yale University. The 

 tentative program for these sessions, as far as 

 it has been an-anged, is given below, with the 

 names of those who have been invited to pre- 

 sent papers. The majority of those invited to 

 speak have already accepted. 

 Introduetory address, by the vice-president and 

 chairman, Colonel Henry S. Graves, dean of 

 School of Forestry, Tale University. 

 I 



THE CONSERVATION OP HUMAN AND MATERIAL 

 RESOURCES 



1. The conservation of human energy, by Dr. 

 Thomas S. Baker, secretary, Carnegie Institute 

 of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



2. Conservation of lahor power, by Dr. L. C. Mar- 

 shall, School of Administration, University of 

 Chicago. 



3. Conservation of health, by Dr. Eugene E. 

 Kellet, state health commissioner of Massa- 

 chusetts. 



4. Conservation of motherhood, by Dr. H. B. 

 Hemenwat, State Health Department, Spriag- 

 field, Illinois. 



II 



CONSERVATION OT FUEL AND POWER 



5. Our national coal problem, by Db. D. L. Wing, 

 Washington, D. C. 



6. Economic aspects of the oil problem. (Not 

 yet assigned). 



7. Conservation of power, by Mr. William S. 

 Murray, Grand Central Terminal, New York. 



8. Problems of flood control, by General Harrt 

 Taylor, in charge of government flood control 

 work, Corps of U. S. Army Engineers, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



9. Conservation and industrial waste, by Dr. 

 John T. Black, state health commissioner, 

 Hartford, Conn. 



Ill 

 conservation of capital and credit 



10. Conservation of capital, by Mr. H. T. New- 

 comb, general solicitor, Delaware & Hudson 

 Company. 



11. Conservation of wealth through insurance, by 

 Mr. Chamberlain, superintendent of the 

 Group Insurance Department, Travellers Insur- 

 ance Company, Hartford, Conn. 



12. Conservation of America's economic inde- 

 pendence, by Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, dean 

 of Advanced Department, Babson Institute, 

 Wellesley Hills, Mass. 



IV 

 conservation and rural development 



13. The national problem of land reclamation, by 

 Mb. F. H. Newell, Washington, D. C. 



14. Problems of rural economics, by Professor 

 E. G. Nourse, chief of agricultural economics, 

 Iowa State College. 



15. Conservation of the qualities of the rural 

 population, by Dr. Kenyon L. Butterfield, 

 president Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



16. Home economics, by Mr. C. F. Langworthy, 

 States Eelation Service, Washington, D. C. 



V 

 conservation op forest resources 



17. The forests of the world, by Mr. Raphael 

 ZoN, forest economist, U. S. Forest Service, 

 Washington, D. C. 



18. Economic aspects of our timber supply, by 

 Colonel W. B. Greeley, chief forester, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



19. Forest research and the forestry movement, 

 by Professor E. T. Fisher, head of Division 

 of Forestry, Harvard University, Cambridge, 



