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civic organizations have been active, as have 

 been a number of scientific bodies, beginning 

 with the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, which appointed a 

 strong committee at the Chicago meeting, and 

 whose president is a leading speaker at the 

 conference. 



The conferees with the president include 

 the governors of the states and territories, 

 each with three advisors; the justices of the 

 Supreme Court; the members of the Cabinet; 

 the senators and representatives in the 

 Sixtieth Congress; the Inland Waterways 

 Commission; the presidents of leading 

 national and interstate scientific, technical 

 and industrial organizations dealing with 

 natural resources ; together with a limited 

 number of special guests, representatives of 

 the press, etc. 



While no formal program was framed in 

 advance, the preliminary calendar was as 

 f oUows : 



CALENDAR 



May 12, 7:30 p.m. — Meeting of the Governors and 

 special guests with the President at dinner in 

 the White House. 

 May 13, 10:00 A.M. — Assembling of Governors and 

 their advisors with otner conferees in the 

 East Room. 

 11:00 A.M. — ^Address by the President: "Con- 

 servation as a National Duty." 

 2:30 P.M. — Session on Mineral Resources. 

 Opening statements: 



" The Conservation of Ores and Related 



Minerals," by Andrew Carnegie. 

 " The Waste of Our Fuel Resources," by 

 Dr. I. C. White. 

 General discussion — opened by John Mitchell. 

 7:30 P.M. — Meeting of the President and Gov- 

 ernors as Guests of the Washington Board of 

 Trade at dinner in the New Willard Hotel. 

 May 14, 10:00 a.m. — Session on Land Resources. 

 Opening statements : 



" 'Ihe Natural Wealth of the Land and its 



Conservation," by James J. Hill. 

 " Soil Wastage," by Professor T. C. Cham- 



berlin. 

 " Forest Conservation," by R. A. Long. 

 " Conservation of Life and Health by Im- 

 proved Water Supply," by Dr. George 

 M. Kober. 

 General discussion. 



2:30 P.M. — Session on Land Resources. 

 Opening statements: 



" Interdependence of Resources, Illustrated 

 by California's Rivers and Forests," by 

 Ex-Governor George C. Pardee. 

 " Grazing and Stock Raising," by Hon. H. 

 A. Jastro. 

 General discussion. 

 9:00 P.M. — Reception to meet the Governors and 

 the Inland Waterways Commission at the 

 residence of Mr. Gilford Pinchot. 

 May 15, 10:00 a.m. — Session on Water Resources. 

 Opening statements : 



" The Public Lands and Land Tenure," by 



Ex-Senator Joseph M. Carey. 

 " Navigation Resources of American Water- 

 ways," by Professor Emory R. Johnson. 

 " The Conservation of Power Resources," by 

 H. S. Putnam. 

 General discussion. 

 2:30 P.M. — General Session. 

 4:30 P.M. — General meeting of the conferees 

 with ladies accompanying them, as guests of 

 Mrs. Roosevelt, in the White House Grounds. 

 7 : 30 P.M. — Any session thought desirable by the 

 Governors. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 In the place of Professor Dr. Max Verworn, 

 professor of physiology at Gottingen, who was 

 unable to accept. Dr. Albrecht F. K. Penck, 

 professor of geography at Berlin, has been 

 appointed by the Prussian Ministry of Educa- 

 tion to serve as Kaiser Wilhelm professor for 

 1908-9 in this country, and has been assigned 

 to a seat in the Columbia University faculties 

 of pure and political science. He will give 

 courses in historical and physical geography. 

 President Eliot returned from his trip 

 through the middle west on the morning of 

 April 27, after having been absent from Cam- 

 bridge since March 31. During his absence 

 he delivered, in addition to the six lectures on 

 university organization on the Harris founda- 

 tion at Northwestern University, no less than 

 twenty-eight other addresses and speeches. 



At the annual meeting of the Society of the 

 Sigma Xi of the University of Pennsylvania 

 held at Randal Morgan Laboratory on May 5, 

 Dr. A. W. Goodspeed was elected president; 

 Dr. John W. Harshberger, vice-president; J. 



