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President, C. D. Cliamberlin, National Pe- 

 troleum Association, Cleveland, Ohio; Vice- 

 ■president, E. Galbreath, Independent Oil and 

 Gas Producers' Association of Oklahoma, 

 Tulsa, Okla. ; Secretary, Irving C. Allen, U. S. 

 Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Treasurer, 

 "Warren 0. Piatt, Independent Petroleum 

 Marketers' Association of the United States, 

 Cleveland, Ohio; Acting Past President, Frank 

 B. Fretter, Western Petroleum Eefiners' 

 Association, Coffeyville, Kansas. In addition 

 to the foregoing these members were also 

 elected to serve on the executive committee: 

 Ealph Arnold, Geological Society of America, 

 Los Angeles, Cal. ; C. F. Clarkson, Society of 

 Automobile Engineers, Neve York City; G. M. 

 Swindell, Chamber of Mines and Oil, Los 

 Angeles, Cal.; Edmund O'Neill, American 

 Chemical Society, University of California, 

 Berkeley, Cal.; E. B. Eich, Gasoline Produ- 

 cers' Association, Parkersburg, W. Va. ; 

 George H. Taber, American Society for Test- 

 ing Materials, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



The first annual meeting will be held at 

 New Orleans, La., October 16 and 17, 1914. 

 and the second annual meeting will be held at 

 the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 

 in San Francisco, October 25 to 30, 1915. 

 At the 1915 meeting it is anticipated that all 

 of the petroleum societies in the country will 

 meet in one great congress where many things 

 of interest and of value will be presented. 



An official invitation has been sent from the 

 president of the Exposition at San Francisco 

 to the president of the International Petro- 

 leum Commission, Karlsruhe, Germany, to hold 

 the 1915 meeting of the International Petro- 

 leum Commission in San Francisco. This 

 meeting will be part of the great meeting of 

 the petroleum industries where the foremost 

 petroleum technologists and scientists of the 

 world will congregate. Plans are already be- 

 ing formulated for this great 1915 meeting. 

 Irving C. Allen 



Bureau of Mines 



TEE AMESICAN BISON SOCIETY 

 At the annual meeting of the American Bison 

 Society, held in New York on January 8, 1914, 



unportant action was taken relative to extending 

 the work of the society by the passage of the fol- 

 lowing resolution, proposed by Professor Henry 

 Fairfield Osborn and seconded by Dr. Wm. T. 

 Hornaday: 



Besolved, That the protection and propagation 

 of the prong horn antelope be immediately under- 

 taken by the American Bison Society in connec- 

 tion with its work for the buffalo, and that the 

 board of managers be asked to request the presi- 

 dent and officers to formulate and execute a plan 

 whereby this purpose may be carried out. 



At the annual meeting of the board of managers, 

 after a brief discussion of this matter, the presi- 

 dent and executive committee were instructed to 

 take such action as they might deem best as soon 

 as possible. 



President Hooper, in his annual report, gave an 

 interesting summary of the work already accom- 

 plished by the society, and pointed out several di- 

 rections in which effort should be directed during 

 the coming year. He called attention to the fact 

 that when the society was organized some eight 

 years ago only 1,100 pure-blooded bison were 

 known to exist in North America, while on Jan- 

 uary 1, 1913, 3,453 animals were listed in the 

 census compiled by the society, an increase of 

 over 300 per cent. During the past year the Wind 

 Cave National Game Preserve has been estab- 

 lished at the instance of this society, and has been 

 stocked with fourteen bison presented by the New 

 York Zoological Society from its herd in the 

 Bronx Park. 



The work awaiting the society during the coming 

 year was listed by President Hooper under three 

 heads: (1) The establishment of a herd in Sully's 

 Hill National Park, North Dakota, (2) the estab- 

 lishment of a state herd in New York state or else- 

 where, (3) encouragement of the preservation of 

 the prong horn antelope, and possibly of other 

 species of big game animals. 



Dr. T. S. Palmer, of the U. S. Biological Sur- 

 vey, called attention to the possibility of estab- 

 lishing a state herd in West Virginia on the pre- 

 serve of the Allegheny Sportsmen's Association. 

 He also stated that the Montana, Wind Cave, 

 Niobrara and Wichita ranges were all well suited 

 to antelope. 



It was felt that the society could well take pride 

 in its recent achievements, but that its efforts must 

 not in any way be relaxed during the coming year. 

 William P. Whaeton, 



Secretary 



