396 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



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; lor 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 settlers who have no tim- 

 ber on their own claims to take from the reserves firewood, posts, 

 poles, and fencing material necessary for their immediate per- 

 sonal 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 ; and 

 for permitting prospectors to enter the reserves in search of 

 valuable minerals; lor 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 Interior, composed of officers specially selected 

 with reference to their character and attainments, holding office 

 during efficiency 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 Survey, what portions of 

 the public domain should be reserved permanently as forest lands 

 and what portions, being more valuable 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 be withdrawn from sale, settlement, and other disposition and 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. 



Yours, respectfully, Charles S. Sargent, Henry L. Abbot, A. 

 Agassiz, Wm. H. Brewer, Arnold Hague, Gifford Pinchot, Wol- 

 cott Gibbs. 



To the President of the National Academy of Sciences. 



2. National Academy of Sciences : Washington Meeting. — The 

 following is a list of the papers presented at the meeting of the 

 Academy held at Washington, April 19 to 22. 



A. Agassiz: The coral reefs of Fiji. 



A. Agassiz and W. McM. Woodworth: The Fiji bololo. 



A. Agassiz and A. a. Mayer: The acalephs of Fiji. 



J. 8. Billings: The variation in virulence of the Colon bacillus. 



Theo. Gill : Biog-raphical memoir of Edward D. Cope. 



Alpheus Hyatt: New classification of Nautiloidea. 



A. A. Michelson : A new spectroscope. 



Ira Remsen and B. E. Reid: On the hydrolysis of acid amides. 



