14 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1918. 



people themselves ; it is to organize these departments of higher en- 

 joyment, to give impetus to the art and literature of outdoors, to 

 popularize natural science, and to encourage outdoor living that the 

 committee is established. 



The committee will support a plan of systematic selection and 

 development to secure for American national parks the recognized 

 first place in world scenery, thus realizing their value as a national 

 economic asset. Its educatioal plans are based upon views of national 

 parks as popular classrooms and museums of nature. It will seek 

 the cooperation of public schools and universities in the interpreta- 

 tion of natural scenery in terms of popular science. Among its first 

 acts was the passage of a resolution, offered by Leonidas Dennis, of 

 New Jersey, favoring the bill which has passed the Senate and is now 

 before the House to make the Grand Canyon a national park. 



The committee will enlarge itself so as to become representative 

 of every section and State in the country. It is the initial stage in 

 a broad national organization to be perfected after the war under the 

 title of the National Parks Association. The members at present are 

 as follows : 



Wallace W. Atwood, department of physiography, Harvard University. 



Arthur E. Bestor, president of Chatauqua Institution. 



Belmore Browne, explorer, author, artist. 



Henry G. Bryant, president Geographical Society of Philadelphia, explorer. 



John B. Burnham, president American Game Protective and Propagation 

 Association. 



William E. Colby, president Sierra Club. 



Leonidas Dennis, conservationist, lawyer. 



J. Walter Fewkes, chief Bureau of American Ethnology. 



John H. Finley, president University of State of New York. 



William B. Greeley, chairman conservation committee Camp-Fire Club. 



George Bird Griunell, Boone and Crockett Club, pioneer of Glacier National 

 Park. 



William H. Holmes, curator of National Academy of Art, head curator anthro- 

 pology. United States National Museum. 



William Kent, former United States Representative, donor of the Muir Woods 

 National Museum. 



George F. Kunz, president of American Scenic, and Historic Preservation 

 Society. 



E. M. Lehnerts, department of geology, University of Minnesota ; pioneer in 

 national parks geology classes. 



Henry B. F. Macf arland, publicist ; lawyer. 



J. Horace McFarland, president American Civic Association. 



La Verne Noyes, president board of trustees, Chicago Academy of Science. 



George D. Pratt, conservation commissioner, State of New York ; president 

 Camp Fire Club. 



D. W. Roper, director Prairie Club ; engineer. 



Edmund Seymour, president American Bison Society. 



Charles Sheldon, Boone and Crockett Club ; explorer, author. 



