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Show SAVANTS OPEN Ii S. LMEETING F. S. Baker of Ogden Forest Office Among Experts Speaking SAIT LAKE, June 23. Outstand-I Ing features of the first day's -f-inn of the American Association for th Advancement of Science conference at the i nlverslty "f Utah yesterday were the address on ' The Conservation :inl Proper Utilisation of Our National Resources. by Dr. Barton Warren Kvermann retiring president of the Pacific division of the association an address on "The Law of Geniinitei 3pei les ' by Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus of Leland Stan- t f..r.l. Jr , university. Callforni.i, the I address on "LonK-rans" forecasting'! by tho Rev. J S. Rlcard. S J . of tne j University of Santa Clam: an aJ- dress on Reforestation Problems in Utah " by P S. Baker of the United States forestrj service at Ogden. and :i two-session conference on "Alkali Reclamation ' by a score of agronD-ml agronD-ml ta and soli experts from all o er tho west ui( hest ix nr.sourtcES. lr Kvermann's presentation of the; conservation Ojueanon given at the general session cf the Pacific division di-vision of the society held at the as- sembl hall c,f the university In tho . mu'cun building. In part, he said: ' The natural resources of tho I nited States jio the richest und most varied of anv country In the world. To re&IIxe the truth of this statement n Is only necessary to ;iTl attention 1 to oirr great coal and oil fields and natural gns. forests of hard and soft ! woods, our multitude of species of I wild game mammal:1, game birds and ' fur-bearing anlinnls; our hundreds nf s(jcics of Valuable and predacious birds, and ihe rich fisheries of our Atlantic and gulf coasts great lakes iind interior water, and of our Pacific Pa-cific coast and Alaska. "And this very richness of our na'' ural resources has had much to d with making us the most short-sighted, the most extravagant and mo;l wasteful people In all the world II. D GAME 'AM UBIjE. In our wild game we have .e-sourcea .e-sourcea of f.ihulou value The annual an-nual kill of deer In the I nlted State'i is about 100. Oiio. valued at 3,000 00". and the rabbit S veritable resource Is the rabbit. In one year there vrere killed 466,p00 In Xew York. L719.-879 L719.-879 In Pennsylvania. 293.66;. In Virginia, Vir-ginia, and not fewer than 10,000.000 in the other state. Doubtless 16. -000.000 rabbits are killed every year in the I'nlted States. At 20 cents each a very conservative estimate, I the value would be $3. 000. 000. The annual catch of fur-bearing animals : probably totals more than ; $10,000,(100. in in.- uu- M.iir ui i . . i 11 i there were killed in 1&20 more than' J two million ducks and other game birds worth $1,000,000; The value of i those killed In other states would r.ile the total probably to $.".0,000,000. . DEGR1 I DM I KIU.D. in rscogrnltion of the Importance' of the gathering and to commemorate1 the occasion .M well as to pay honor to their distinguished scholarship President George Thomas of the L'nl-, varsity of Utah conferred tho degree of doctor of laws In the university upon Barton Warren Kvermann of the association and James ILarvey Robinson, head of the school for so- lal research of Xew York. The ceremony was performed immediately im-mediately at the conclusion of Dr. Evermunn's address. Dr. Thomas, In presenting the degrees, paid tribute to th-' high scholastic records of both recipients and they in kind replied with brief expressions of their gratitude grati-tude President Kvermann was Introduced Intro-duced by Professor George E. Fel-iou Fel-iou .if the department of history and Dr. Robinson by Professor Levi Edgar Ed-gar Young of the department of western west-ern history. Attendance at the various special meetings and the pen.-ral session last night was thoroughly representative the last at registration headquarters, a busy place all day, showing tho presence of many men whoso names are widely known in tho realms of scientific thought |