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York State Breeders’ Association, Syracuse, N. Y. ; I. D. Gra- 
ham, Editor the Kansas Farmer and Secretary of the Kansas Im- 
proved Stock Breeders’ Association, Topeka, Kansas; Geo. S. 
Walker, Secretary of the National Wool Growers’ Association 
and Secretary of the State Board of Sheep Commissioners, 
Cheyenne, Wyoming; Jos. E. Wing, Agriculturist and Secretary 
of the Dorset Horn Association, Mechanicsburg, Ohio ; Dr. B. F. 
Dixon, Auditor for the State of North Carolina, Raleigh, N. C. ; 
Charles W. Bush, Counselor-at-Law, Wilmington, Del.; Jas. 
Handly, Horticulturist and Publisher, Quincy, 111. ; Robert P. 
Lyon, Treasurer, Hartford, Conn.; E. Alexis Taylor, Director 
General of the Company. 
ADVISORY BOARD. 
An Advisory Board, numbering over 250, represents every 
phase of agricultural and industrial interests and every section of 
the country. The members of the Board representing the for- 
estry department are among the leading professors and scientists 
of the country. 
The forestry members of the Advisory Board are : Prof. H. S. 
Graves, Chief of Forestry Department, Washington, D. C. ; Miss 
L. A. Finch, Corresponding Secretary Tri-Counties, Reforesta- 
tion Committee, Riverside, Cal.; Jas. S. Whipple, Commissioner 
State of New York, Forest, Fish and Game Committee, Albany, 
N. Y. ; C. H. Bailey, Secretary Conservation Association, Seattle, 
Wash. ; F. W. Besley, State Forester, Baltimore, Md. ; Prof. F. J. 
Phillips, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.; W. R. Brown, 
Secretary Forestry Committee, Berlin, N. H. ; Elleworth Bethel, 
Secretary Colorado Forestry Association and President Colorado 
Academy of Science, Denver, Col. ; R. T. Fisher, Forest School, 
Harvard, Cambridge, Mass. ; Dr. C. A. Shenck, Biltmore For- 
est School, Biltmore, N. C. ; E. E. Ring, Forest Commissioner, 
Augusta, Maine; Thos. V. Wells, Editor of Forestry and Irriga- 
tion, Washington, D. C. ; Ralph S. Hosmer, Superintendent of 
Forestry, Honolulu, H. I. ; Prof. Alfred Ackerman, State College 
of Agriculture, Athens, Ga. ; Fred J. Grace, Reg. and Com- 
missioner of Forestry, Baton Rouge, La. ; Edwin A. Start, 
Executive Secretary American Forestry Association, Washing- 
ton, D. C. ; John H. Wallace, Commissioner Department of Game 
and Fish, Montgomery, Ala. 
Thirty-eight governors have personally accepted the position of 
vice-president for their states, assuring the management of their 
full sympathy with the project, offering their unreserved aid to 
start the American Exposition to a successful career. 
The Exposition is not to be a world’s fair, but a permanent na- 
tional exhibit, an exposition which will present all the resources 
and handicraft in the United States, before all her people, not in 
