January 17, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



91 



In discussion, brief remarks were made 

 by I. C. White, A. P. Brigham and A. W. 

 Grabau. 



In the absence of the authors the fol- 

 lowing papers were read by title: 

 Notes on Mts. Hood and Adams and their 



Glaciers: H. F. Reid. 

 Keewatin and Laurentide Ice Sheets in 



Minnesota: A. H. Elptman. 

 Devonian Interval in the Ozarks: C. R. 



Keyes. 

 Devonian Fish-Fauna of loiva: C. R. 



Eastman. 

 Geological Section in Northern Alaska, 



along the 152d Meridian: Frank C. 



SCHRADER. 



Notes on the Geology of Southeastern 



Alaska: Alfred H. Brooks. 

 Geology of the Yirgilina Copper District in 



Virginia and North Carolina: Thomas 



L. Watson. 

 Cuttyhunk Island: F. P. Gulliver. 

 The Mohokea caldera on Hawaii: C. H. 



Hitchcock. 



A resolution of thanks to the president 

 and trustees of the University of Roches- 

 ter and to the professor of geology, the 

 secretary of the Society, was offered by 

 Professor Emerson, and after some re- 

 marks by Professor Coleman was unani- 

 mously adopted. After some closing re- 

 marks by the vice-president, the Society ad- 

 journed until December, 1902. 



A large proportion of the fellows re- 

 mained in Rochester to attend the evening 

 reception given by President and Mrs. 

 Rush Rhees, of the University of Roches- 

 ter. The afternoon was devoted to short 

 excursions to the Genesee gorge and other 

 localities about Rochester, and to an inspec- 

 tion of the establishments of Ward's Nat- 

 ural Science Bureau, the Bauseh and Lomb 

 Optical Company, etc. 



Amadeus W. Grabau. 



Columbia Univeesitt, 

 Depaetment op Geology. 



FORESTRY IN NEW YORK STATE. 



The New York State School of Forestry, 

 located at the New York Land Grant Col- 

 lege, with its laboratories in the form of 

 trained man in this department in the 

 Adirondacks, is discovering that the diffi- 

 culties which have attended so generally 

 the promotion of pure science in our col- 

 leges and schools, during the past gener- 

 ation and earlier, are not necessarily evaded 

 or lessened when the question becomes one 

 of promotion of applied science and the 

 utilization of scientific method directly in 

 the promotion of the highest interests of 

 the State and of its people. 



New York was the first of the States of 

 the Union to provide, on a suitable work- 

 ing scale, for the introduction of the art 

 of forestry into this country by systematic 

 and scientific instruction in a technical col- 

 lege, purely and professionally devoted to 

 that work. It established the ' College of 

 Forestry ' as a department of the State 

 college, Cornell University, authorized the 

 purchase of a large tract of forested land, 

 gave directions that the work should be 

 done under the supervision of an expert, 

 scientific and practically trained forester, 

 and conferred ample authority upon the 

 College of Forestry, its director and the 

 university board of trustees, to establish 

 and permanently sustain the college and 

 its work. The primary purpose of the col- 

 lege was the education of professionally 

 trained foresters. This provision was made 

 in 1898 and was at once put into opera- 

 tion. Land was purchased — outside the 

 State Reservation and thus not subject to 

 the constitutional limitations affecting that 

 reservation — and work promptly begun. 



Hardly had this long-needed and im- 

 mensely important enterprise been inaugu- 

 rated by the appointment of Director Fer- 

 now, the most experienced, professionally 

 trained man in this department in the 

 country, and the schedule of work and 



