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School faculty, will discuss the situation in 

 Europe. 



Three other meetings are scheduled during 

 the remainder of the college year. On Wed- 

 nesday, March 9, a meeting will be held in 

 the Law School and the subject for discussion 

 will be " Statistical Methods." On Wednes- 

 day, May 25, the society will meet in the 

 botanic gardens and discuss " Fertile Border 

 Fields in Scientific Eesearch." The final 

 meeting of the year will be a joint meeting 

 (with Phi Betta Kappa in Houston Hall, on 

 Monday, June 13. 



The last meeting of thei society was held on 

 Tuesday, November 23, at the Art Alliance, 

 1823 Walnut Street. At that time there was 

 an illustrated lecture on "Modern American 

 illustrations," by Thornton Oakley, '06. Dr. 

 Erwin F. Faber, the illustrator for the med- 

 ical department, spoke on " Scientific illustra- 

 tion." Dr. Clarence E. McClung, head of the 

 zological department spoke on " What a sci- 

 entific illustration should contain." Dr. Mc- 

 Climg was recently made national president 

 of the Sigma Xi for a period of two years. 

 Dr. MeClung was on leave of absence from 

 the university last year engaged in some spe- 

 cial investigation for the government. 



FIRST MEETING OF THE CELLULOSE SECTION 

 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 



• At the cellulose .symposium held by the In- 

 dustrial Division of the American Chemical 

 Society at the meeting in Chicago last Sep- 

 tember, it was voted to form a permanent Cel- 

 lulose Section. Following the meeting the 

 necessary steps for organization were taken, 

 and President Noyes appointed Professor Har- 

 old Hibbert, of Tale University, chairman of 

 the new section with Gustavus J. Esselen, Jr., 

 secretary. One of the objects of the section is 

 ■to provide an opportunity for those interested 

 in the practical application of cellulose to get 

 together with those concerned with the more 

 strictly scientific aspects of cellulose chemis- 

 try and to afford an opportunity for discus- 

 sion which should prove mutually helpful. 

 I An interesting program is being arranged 

 for the first meeting of the new section in con- 



nection with the meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society in Rochester, N. T., begin- 

 ning on April 26. Those having papers which 

 they would like to present before the section 

 are requested to send title and abstract before 

 April first to the secretary, who may be ad- 

 dressed, care Arthur D. Little, Inc., 30 Charles 

 River Road, Cambridge, 39, Massachusetts. 

 G. J. EssELN, Jr., 



Secretary 



FORESTRY LEGISLATION BY THE NATIONAL 

 GOVERNMENT 



Hearings on the national forestry program 

 bill, which calls for the expenditure of $11,- 

 000,000 a year for the protection and develop- 

 ment of forests, were begun on January 7, 

 before the subcommittee on appropriations of 

 which Representative Anderson is chairman. 



Newspaper publishers, paper manufactures, 

 lumbermen, timberland owners wood-using in- 

 dustries, the United States Forest Service and 

 the American Forestry Association were rep- 

 resented. 



One million dollars a year for cooperating 

 with the states in protecting the forests from 

 fire, and $10,000,000 a year for securing addi- 

 tional forest land for the government isi being 

 asked as a forward step in the endeavor to 

 secure sufficient lumber and paper pulp for 

 future needs. 



R. S. Kellogg, chairman of the national 

 forest program committee, has made the fol- 

 lowing statement: 



This is a paper age, and in the United States, 

 at least, a newspaper age. From an annual eon- 

 sumption of three pounds of news print paper per 

 capita in 1880 we have gone to thirty-five pounds 

 in 1920. The news print paper produced in the 

 United States and Canada this year, if put in the 

 form of a standard roll seventy-three inches wide, 

 such as is used "by many of the large newspapers, 

 would unwind 13,000,000 miles. Our daily papers 

 have a circulation in excess of 28,000,000 copies, 

 and there are more than 100 dailies between the 

 Atlantic and Pacific whose circulation exceeds 100,- 

 000 copies, and some of them have several times 

 that number. 



The proposed legislation has been indorsed 

 by the National Lumber Manufacturers' Asso- 



