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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIV. No. 344. 



THE AMEBIC AN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



The principal summer meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association for 1901 will be held 

 at Denver, Colorado, Tuesday, Wednesday and 

 Thursday, August 27-29, in affiliation with the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, as we learn from the Forester, the 

 official journal of the Association. 



There will be two sessions daily, at 10 a. m. 

 and 2:30 p. m., which will be held in the Den- 

 ver High School building, and, in addition, an 

 open evening meeting, in the Central Presby- 

 terian Church, Wednesdaj^, August 28, at 8 

 p. m. At the latter meeting there will be short 

 addresses by Hon. Thomas M. Patterson, Hon. 

 Thomas F. Walsh, Hon. Piatt Eogers, and oth- 

 ers, followed by an illustrated lecture by Mr. 

 Giffi^rd Pinchot, Forester of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, entitled ' The Gov- 

 ernment and the Forest Eeserves.' This meet- 

 ing will be a distinctively Western one, and its 

 proceedings of special interest to all concerned 

 with the forest problems before the Western 

 States — fires, grazing, relation of forests to 

 water supply, etc. 



The address of welcome at the opening ses- 

 sion, Tuesday, August 27, 10:30 a. m., will be 

 delivered by Hon. Thomas M. Patterson, United 

 States Senate. It is expected that the Presi- 

 dent of the Association, Hon. James Wilson, 

 Secretary of Agriculture, will attend the meet- 

 ing, and preside at one or more sessions. 



A partial list of speakers at the meeting, and 

 their subjects, follows : 



Mr. A. L. Fellows, Denver, Col., ' The 

 Hydrography of Colorado ' ; Mr. Geo. B. Sud- 

 worth. Chief of Division of Forest Investiga- 

 tion, Bureau of Forestry, Washington, D. C, 

 ' Forests and their Relation to Agriculture and 

 Manufacturing Industries ' ; Mr. S. J. Hol- 

 singer, Phoenix, Arizona, ' The Boundary Line 

 between the Forest and the Desert ' ; Professor 

 R. H. Forbes, Tucson, Arizona, ' The Open 

 Range and the Irrigation Farmer ' ; Mr. R. L. 

 Fulton, Reno, Nevada, ' The Reclamation of 

 the Arid Region ' ; Mr. William L. Hall, 

 Superintendent of Tree Planting, Bureau of 

 Forestry, Washington, D. C, ' Progress in Tree 

 Planting ' ; Professor A. J. McClatchie, Phoenix, 

 Arizona, ' The Eucalypts as American Forest 



Trees ' ; Mr. T. P. Lukens, Pasadena, Cali- 

 fornia, ' The Reforestration of Watersheds ' ; 

 Professor L. H. Pammel, Ames, Iowa, ' Some 

 Phases of the Growth of the Cultivated Trees 

 in Iowa ' ; Mr. F. H. Newell, Hydrographer, 

 U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C, 

 ' Forests as Reservoirs ' ; Mr. Gifford Pinchot, 

 Forester, Washington D. C, 'Grazing in the 

 Forest Reserves.' Other speakers are : Pro- 

 fessor William R. Dudley, Stanford University, 

 California ; Mr. William H. Knight, Los An- 

 geles, California ; Mr. George H. Maxwell, 

 Chicago ; Edward M. Griffith, Bureau of For- 

 estry, Washington, D. C. 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 

 ADVANCE3IENT OF SCIENCE. 



For the benefit of members who will attend 

 the Denver meeting of the Association be- 

 ginning on August 24, we reproduce the ar- 

 rangements made with the railways : 



The Western Passenger Association, covering 

 the territory west of Chicago and St. Louis, has 

 made a rate of one fare plus $2 for the round 

 trip, from all points in their territory to Den- 

 ver, tickets to be sold July 10 to August 31, 

 with final return limit of October 31. 



The New England, Trunk Line, Central and 

 Southeastern Passenger Associations, covering the 

 territory east of Chicago and St. Louis, have 

 made a rate of a fare and one-third for the 

 round trip from all points in their territory to 

 Denver, on the certificate plan, the conditions 

 of which are as follows : 



1. Each person desiring to avail himself of 

 the reduced rate must purchase a first class 

 ticket ( either limited or unlimited) to the place 

 of meeting, at the regular tariff rate and at the 

 same time procure from the ticket agent a cer- 

 tificate of the standard form. If through 

 ticket cannot be procured at the starting point, 

 the person should purchase to the most con- 

 venient point at which such ticket can be ob- 

 tained and there repurchase through to the 

 place of meeting, procuring a standard certifi- 

 cate from each agent from whom a ticket is pur- 

 chased. 



2. It is absolutely necessary that certificates 

 be procured, indicating that the full fare has been 

 paid for going passage and the route for which 



