June 20, 1919] 



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est problems of New Jersey, Maryland, Vir- 

 ginia and West Virginia had been discussed 

 by representatives of those states and the For- 

 est Service of the Department of Agriculture 

 the following resolution was presented by Col- 

 onel Eugene C. Massey, former member of the 

 Virginia state legislature, and was adopted: 



Forestry questions are national questions as weU 

 as state and local questions, and it is the sense of 

 this conference that the national government 

 should assume leadership in these matters and aid 

 and cooperate with the several states in furnishing 

 adequate protection from forest fires, in perpetu- 

 ating existing forests, and in reforesting devastated 

 forest districts or regions, upon such conditions as 

 may seem just and necessary. 



Some of the delegates suggested that the fed- 

 eral government should cooperate with the 

 states in forestry work on lines similar to those 

 prescribed in the federal aid road act and the 

 Smith-Lever Act providing for agricultural 

 extension -work, and should make appropria- 

 tions, to be matched by the states. 



Among those attending the conference were: 

 F. W. Besley, Maryland State forester, Bal- 

 timore; Dr. A. F. "Woods, president, Maryland 

 State Agricultural College, College Park, Md. ; 

 "W. McCulloh Brown, member Maryland State 

 Board of Forestry, Oakland, Md. ; Alfred Gas- 

 kill, New Jersey conservation commissioner, 

 Trenton, N. J.; E. Chapin Jones, Virginia 

 state forester, Charlottesville, Va. ; A. B. Hast- 

 ings, assistant Virginia state forester, Char- 

 lottesville, Va. ; Eugene C. Massie, former 

 member of Virginia legislature, Richmond, 

 Va. ; Edwin P. Cox, member of Virginia State 

 Geological Commission, Richmond, Va. ; Nat 

 T. Frame, state director of agricultural exten- 

 sion, Morgantown, W. Va. ; H. S. Vandervort, 

 assistant state agent, Morgantown, W. Va. ; VT. 

 Hoyt Weber, representing Central West Vir- 

 ginia Fire Protective Association ; W. D. 

 Tyler, Dante, Va. ; F. L. Dakin, Philadelphia, 

 Pa.; P. S. Ridsdale, American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, Washington. D. C. ; David T. Mason, 

 Bureau of Internal Revenue, Washington, D. 

 C; and a number of representatives of the 

 Forest Service of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



The second conference of the series is to be 

 held in Asheville, N. C, June 4, for North 

 Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL 

 ASSOCIATION 



Dr. Frank Billings in reporting for the 

 board of trustees at the Atlantic City meeting 

 of the American Medical Association stated 

 that the increase in subscriptions of the Jour- 

 nal of the association for the year 1918 was 

 small — 229 all told — but this under the cir- 

 cumstances must be regarded as satisfactorj-. 

 The weekly circulation during the first four 

 months of the current year was greater than 

 that in any previous four months, averaging 

 over 70,000. The foreign circulation was also 

 steadily increasing. The advertising stand- 

 ard of the Journal had been maintained, or, 

 if anything censorship had been more rigid. 

 The wisdom of establishing the Cooperative 

 Medical Advertising Bureau became more evi- 

 dent each year. This bureau had demon- 

 strated that it was possible to secure for the 

 state journals a fair amount of advertising of 

 which the profession need not be ashamed. 

 The bureau began this year with twenty-six 

 state journals ; the only state journal not rep- 

 resented was that of Illinois. The Archives 

 of Internal Medicine had been conducted at a 

 loss, while the American Journal of Diseases 

 of Children showed a small profit. The Span- 

 ish edition of the Journal was now issued on 

 the first and fifteenth of each month and con- 

 tained practically all the scientific material 

 in the regular edition but matter that was 

 ephemeral or of local interest was not in- 

 cluded. The subscriptions were coming in 

 rapidly and at present it had a circulation of 

 1,400. In response to a petition signed by a 

 large number of leading neurologists and psy- 

 chiatrists the Archives of Neurology and Psy- 

 chiairy had been established. It was pub- 

 lished on the same terms as the Archives of 

 Internal Medicine. This journal might al- 

 ready be regarded as a success. It was of the 

 highest order, a credit to American medicine, 

 and to the association. It was to be empha- 

 sized that the association was not publishing 

 these journals for financial gain ; its sole ob- 



