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SCIENCE. 



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North America is dependent upon irriga- 

 tion. 



The answer to the third question, 

 ' ' What specific legislation should be en- 

 acted to remedy the evils now confessedly 

 existing? " will be found in the series of 

 proposed bills appended to this report. 

 They present the following recommenda- 

 tions : 



1. That the Secretary of War, upon the 

 request of the Secretary of the Interior, 

 shall be authorized and directed to make 

 the necessary details of troops to protect 

 the forests, timber and undergrowth on 

 the public reservations, and in the national 

 parks not otherwise protected under exist- 

 ing laws, until a permanent forest bureau 

 in the Department of the Interior has been 

 authorized and thoroughly organized. 



2. That the Secretary of the Interior 

 shall be authorized and directed to issue the 

 necessary rules and regulations for the pro- 

 tection, growth and improvement of the 

 forests on the forest reserves of the United 

 States ; for the sale from them of timber, 

 firewood and fencing to actual settlers on 

 and adjacent to such reserves, and to the 

 owners of mines legally located in them for 

 use in such mines; for allowing actual set- 

 tlers who have no timber on their own claims 

 to take from the reserves firewood, posts, 

 poles and fencing material necessary for 

 their immediate personal use ; for allowing 

 the public to enter and cross the reserves ; 

 for granting to county commissioners rights 

 of way for wagon roads in and across the 

 reserves; for granting rights of way for 

 irrigating ditches, flumes and pipes, and 

 for reservoir sites; for permitting pros- 

 pectors to enter the reserves in search of 

 valuable minerals; for opening the reserves 

 to the location of mining claims under the 

 general mineral laws ; and for allowing the 

 owners of unperfected claims or patents, 

 and the land-grant railroads with lands 

 located in the reserves, to exchange them 



under equitable conditions for unreserved 

 lands. 



3. That a bureau of public forests shall 

 be established in the Department of the In- 

 terior, composed of officers specially selected 

 with reference to their character and attain- 

 ments, holding oflice during eificiency and 

 good behavior and liberally paid and pen- 

 sioned. 



4. That a board of forest lands shall be 

 appointed by the President to determine 

 from actual topographical surveys to be 

 made by the director of the Geological Sur- 

 vey what portions of the public domain 

 should be reserved permanently as forest 

 lands and what portions, being more valu- 

 able for agriculture or mining, should be 

 open to sale and settlement. 



5. That all public lands of the United 

 States more valuable for the production of 

 timber than for agriculture or mining shall 

 be withdrawn from sale, settlement and 

 other disposition and held for the growth 

 and sale of timber.' 



6. That certain portions of the Rainier 

 Forest Reserve in Washington and of the 

 Grand Canyon Forest Reserve in Arizona 

 shall be set aside and governed as national 

 parks. 



THE AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 The fourth special meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Physiological Society was held in 

 Washington, D. C, on May 4, 5 and 6, 

 1897, in conjunction with the fourth Con- 

 gress of American Physicians and Surgeons. 

 The sessions were held at the Columbian 

 University. The following communica- 

 tions were presented and discussed : 

 A neiv form of Gastric Cannula. W. T. Por- 

 ter. 

 Phlorhizin Diabetes in Dogs. G. LusK. 



The continued frequent administration 

 of phlorhizin to dogs produces in them a 

 form of diabetes in which, during starvation 

 or meat nutrition, sugar is eliminated in the 



