Forestry, 1911 - 1914

1911 August 8 Michigan College of Mines 25th Anniversary “The Contribution of the Mining Profession to the Conservation of our Natural Resources” 1913 February 4 Sterling Hotel, Wilkes Barre Dinner of the Engineering Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania re:importance of conservation, President Roosevelt focus on national attention 1913 February 11 Dinner of the University Club of Brooklyn (see previous) 1913 October 18 Tome School, Port Deposit, MD “The Conservation of the Natural Resources of the Nation” mentions Gifford Pinchot and President Roosevelt and taking better care of our natural resources (16 typed pages and two reprint of published paper) 1913 Meeting of the Maryland Conservation Association Drinker’s speech “The Spread and Strength of the Conservation Movement” (12 typed pages) 1914 January 16 Oberlin College Forestry Address to Students “The Spread and Strength of the Forestry Movement” (12 typed pages), two reprints of Extracts of the speech summarized address as given at the Tome School) 1914 January 22 Albany Meeting of the New York State Forestry Association mentions that N.Y. has over 1,600,000 acres of forest reserves more than any other state 1914 February 25 McCoy Hall, Baltimore Meeting of the Maryland Conservation Association (13 typed pages) remarks about visit to Panama and Tome School 1914 March Reprint of article from American Forestry, Vol. XX, No. 3 Extracts from speech at Oberlin College 1914 May 15 Cornell University remarks that the first talk about forestry and conservation issues occurred forty years ago by the American Institute of Mining Engineers in Wilkes Barre in 1871 (2 copies) 1914 July 9 Chautauqua, N.Y. meeting of American Forestry Association (7 typed page rough draft and reprint) 1914 December 8 Phoenixville, Pa. Woman’s Club (21 typed pages, 2 copies, newspaper article from Daily Republican) re: American forestry and conservation as a beautiful profession quoting Douglas Mallock’s poem about an old American woodsman