THE PRESIDENT: Inasmuch as the author of the paper is not present to answer questions, the only thing that may be done is to ask further contributions of knowledge in the same field. Has anyone any contribution to make?
MISS LOUISE LITTLEPAGE: I would like to ask how long the chestnut tree has been able to live with the blight?
DR. METCALF: Do you refer to the Asiatic ones or to the ones that grow here in America?
MISS LITTLEPAGE: The American.
DR. METCALF: It is almost impossible to answer that question because you have to define just what you mean by "living." If the chestnut tree is attacked first or early on the trunk, it is girdled and dies shortly, but if it is attacked first on the top there develop conditions like what is shown in this picture (showing photograph). I am not certain that you can see these bunches of suckers a little way up the tree. Now those trees will sometimes exist four or five years. I can say safely that I have seen trees last five years.
DR. MORRIS: I can add three years to that.
THE PRESIDENT: If there is no further discussion, we may adjourn.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, AT 8.15 P. M.
Meeting called to order by the President.