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The Forest Service, as a result of a recent conference between 

 representatives of the War Department and the Forest Service, 

 has received requests from Fort Mead, South Dakota, and Fort 

 Leavenworth, Kansas, for an examination of the forests at those 

 posts. In 1908 working plans were made by the Forest Service 

 for West Point, thus supplying the post with part of the necessary 

 forest products, such as cordwood, hurdle poles, and tan bark. 

 Similar plans have been made for the military forests at Rock 

 Island, Illinois, at Pecatinny, New Jersey, and at Fort Wingate, 

 New Mexico. 



The Hudson River Forest Preserve is discussed by Dr. Edward 

 L. Partridge in Country Life in America for September, urging 

 action by the State rather than by the National Government. A 

 bill, he says, will be introduced in the Legislature of New York 

 at its next session to create a Forest Reservation in this region, 

 and he rightly adds that to give an object-lesson in forest reser- 

 vation no more suitable region could be selected. The proposed 

 bill provides that the State shall exercise a certain forest super- 

 vision over an area of more than one hundred and twenty-five 

 square miles through which the Hudson River passes. 



The College of Agriculture, Cornell, has planned an "edu- 

 cational special," carrying several members of the faculty of the 

 College of Agriculture, which is to be run on several Imes in central 

 and western New York, stopping to allow for forty-five minute 

 talks to the farmers about improved methods of farming. Ten 

 days will be spent on this trip, which is being fully advertized, that 

 the farmers may be prepared to ask questions. According to 

 the New York Tribune a similar experiment has been tried this 

 month by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, representatives 

 of the Pennsylvania State College of Agriculture leaving Philadel- 

 phia November 10, for a three-day trip in eastern Pennsylvania. 



The corrected program of the Darwin anniversary meeting of 

 the American Association for the Advancement of Science * is 

 practically complete. According to Science the papers (which 

 will probably be presented on Friday, January i) are as follows : 



* In the June Torreya the preliminary announcement was confused with that of 

 the summer meeting of the A. A. A. S. at Hanover. 



