December 22, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



707 



of California; thait is, for grazing purposes and 

 for timier other tha,n the big sequoia trees, which 

 will always be preserved." (From a letter by 

 A. B. Cammerer, aoting direotor National Park 

 Service, to H. S. Watson, o£ date May 19, 1922). 



' ' The transfer of the three townships now in the 

 park is not particularly with the avowed object of 

 permitting the cutting of much of the standing 

 timber. As a matter of fact, the timber re- 

 sources do not anywhere nearly compare in value 

 with those upon other national forest lands read- 

 ily available for purchase bmt for which no de- 

 mand has yet arisen. Some small cuttings might 

 be necessary to supply local needs, and ultimately 

 good silvicultiiral practice would require the har- 

 vesting of the mature timher. There is no prob- 

 ability that the timber will be sold or even in 

 demand for some time to come." (From letter 

 from L. F. Kneipp, assistant forester U. S. Forest 

 Service, to C. G. Abbott; date October 2, 1922). 



That the park as provided for by the Bar- 

 'bour Bill 'will cooitaiii little in the way of for- 

 ests, we 'have ihe assurance of the chief of the 

 Forest Service who in addressing the Public 

 Lands Committee of the House of Representa- 

 tives at the hearing on the Banbour BUI, De- 

 cember 13, 1921, said, "Aside from the giant 

 forests [the sequoia groves] the areas of com- 

 merciai timber remaining within the area are 

 of negligible extent and of negligible future 

 importance to the forest industries of Cali- 

 fornia." This icacludes both the land added 

 and the part of the present park that the public 

 is to be allowed to keep. The Baifbour Ball, 

 moreover, will make a park of extraordinary 

 shape. An immense bay fifteen miles deep and 

 many miles wide will extend into the very 

 heart of the park, its object being to avoid 

 adding to the park some magnificent forests 

 containing immense pines and sequoias. The 

 lumbennen can therefore operate almost in the 

 center of the park, though legally outside it. 



The Sequoia Park should not be cut in half. 

 No reason for doing so has been given other 

 than the desire of private interests to exploit 

 the forests of the park and the desire of the 

 Forest Service to control such exploitation. In 

 view of these facts, can we regard the severe 

 condenmation of the measure expressed in the 

 San Diego Society's resolution as unwarranted? 

 Should not its protest be backed up by every 



scientific association and every organization 

 interested in real conservation? 



W. G. Van Name 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR 



THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



THE MEDICAL SCIENCES 



Foe a number of yeara Section N has held a 

 S3rmposium on suhjeots of outstanding interest 

 to medical and allied workers. There were 

 symposiums on "Gi'owth and Development of 

 the Child"; "Medical Lessons of the Wai-"; 

 "Ductless (jUands"; "Growtih Problems," eitc. 

 Each of these symposia was an in^ditation pro- 

 gram. 



These meetings were extraordinarily Well 

 attended, always taxing the capacity of *he 

 large halls provided for ,the meetings. They 

 met a real and large demand on the part of the 

 members of the section, the membei-s of the 

 ■association, and the non-members in the fields 

 of public health, medicine, baoteriology, etc. 

 The section committee, after mature delibera- 

 tion, has decided that the section could be 

 more useful by changing its policy. It has 

 decided, beginning with the Boston meeting, to 

 hold a symposium to which will be invited rep- 

 resentatives from the fields of medicine, para- 

 sitology and medical entomology. It is planned 

 that each representative will discuss his re- 

 searches with the workers in "the allied fields. 

 It is expected that these mwtings will afford 

 the long-sought opportunity for the discussion 

 of common problems. 



The Entomological Society of America and 

 the Parasitologists have planned to meet with 

 the section at Boston. 



The new plan has met with such a wide- 

 spread and strong response that it is hoped 

 more groups may join with ithe section in the 

 fuittu'e, to make the annual meeting as broad, 

 as significant and as useful as possible. 



The program for the Boston mee-ting is to he 

 held in the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology buildings at 1 :30 on Decemiber 29. The 

 program is as follows: 

 Professor A. B. Macallum, retiring vice-president 



of Section N, McGill University, Montreal: 



