New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-27
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SCIENTIFIC MEN TOGETHER
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION CONTINUES ITS
SESSION-EDWARD ATKINSON TALKS.

SESSION-EDWARD ATKINSON TALhS.
The American Association for the Advancement
of Science continued in Havemeyer Hail. Columola
university Yesterday its forty-nnth general ses-
sion while at the same time the sixteen allied
scientific organizations held their annual meet
incs in the various buildings within the coheSe
grounds The American Chemical Society con-
tinued its session at the Chemists Club NO 1oS
West Fifty-ffth-st. instead of in Havemeyer Hail.
where it met on Monday. The rest OF the socle-
ties met in the Columbia University buildings as
signed TO them All of the meetings were wei! at
tended and from early morning until late IN the
evening there was such reading OF papers ana
outpouring of scientific information as would make
the ordinary person weary at the bare thought
Of it.
The meeting of the American Forestry Associa-
ton over which James Wilson, Secretary OF Agri-
culture presided was especially interesting to the
many persons who anxious to preserve the
forests Of America from extinction at the hands
Of the woodman's axe. c. c. Vermeule read a
paper on The Forests of Northern New-Jersey
and Their Relation to the Water supply" He
spoke of New-Jersey's wealth of forests and COM
mented with wonder the thickness of forest
growth near New-York City, as. for instance along
the Palisades, where there are eleven thousand
acres Of forest. He said that forested meant
a larger and better water supply for big cities
near those areas.
william E. Clark, State Geologst of Maryland
read a paper on The Forestry Work of the
Maryland Geological Survey" and ]. b. Brown,
secretary of the Indiana Forestry Association, told
of forest conditions in Kansas. Mr.. Brown said
that few years ago Kansas was nothing but
prairie but that now, through the energy and
farsIghtedness of her citizens, she supplied
bountifuly with trees A paper on The Fungus
Enemies of Forest Trees read by Hermann
Won Schrenk, Special Agent for Timber Diseases
of the United States Department of Agriculture,
Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology,
and Mr.. Ayres, of the United States Geological
Survey, read a paper on Cutting, Burning and
Fire Protection" showing the difference between
the East and the West in the matter of liability
10 forest fires. Mr. Hopkins spoke Forest In
sects" and President Charles w. Garfield of the
Michigan Forest Commission contributed in
teresting paper Forestry in Michigan" Mr..
Garfield told of the many difficulties which had TO
be contended with by those who would preserve
the forests, but he said that such interest had
been aroused in the forests that the prospects of
their preserV alton were encouraging John Gift
ford interested the scientists by q paper on 'SyI-
vicuItured Prospects in Cuba arguing strongly
for the planting of forests in Cuba and the estab-
lishnent there Of an economical botanic garden.
There were other interesting papers, and in the
afternoon the association adopted resolutions ask
ing Congress establish National forest reserves
in the Southern Appalachian region and in North
Minnesota
Edward Atkinson, OF ant-ImperiaIistio notoriety
read papers in the section on Social and
Economic Science. The first was on The Distri-
button OF Taxes. and in this tho speaker denounced
the high rate in this country, which he said
was a result of the present National policy of
militarism. The second paper on The Do
minion of Iron" In this he said among other
things
The principal manufacturing States and coun-
tries except the United States, are dependent
countries to whose people the export of manufact-
is necessary to the supply of the means Of liv-
ing The foundation of all manufacturing and me-
chalical arts rests upon coal and iron. As yet no
substitute for coal coke has been found for the
smelling Of iron and steel, natural gas having
served only a small and temporary sIbstit1ite
Without iron, steel and coal Great Britain could
never have established her power TO which so
much Importance Is given by the advocates of
power. and war is becoming as absurd and our of
date as II is brutal ana demoralizng.
Incidentally Mr.. Atkinson said that the United
States Government is spending S5OOOOOOO for the
killing OF Filipinos William Henry Hale a mem
Der of the Section and a classmate of one of the
members of President McKnIeys Cabinet took
the speaker task for injecting seditious utter
ances' into a paper which would bear the indorse-
ment OF the American Association for the Advance
hoped the PostmaSter-Cieneral would steal some
more of his literature out OF the mails, and limited
that If his paper We're printed in fun the official
report of the proceedings of the Association for
the Advancement OF Science might possibly be
barred by the PostOtice Department.
In the evening general session of the American
held in the lecture room OF the Museum of Natural
History a which G. X. Gilbert of the Geologic al
Survey the retiring president OF the association
spoke '-RhythmS and Geologic Time
This evening the General Committee Of the as
ISOLATION will meet at o'clock At the Hotel Ma
jestic to elect officers and TO agree a time and
place for the next meeting. Some will favor the
holding Of the hftieth session in December. The
general session will close Friday. but the section
Mechanical Science and Engineering will hold
its annual meeting on July . and next.