216 EDITORIAL NOTES. [Aug. 



Sill JoHX Lubbock's Pakliamentaey Committee, — This move- 

 ment is now in working trim. The House of Commons have 

 nominated the following of their number the Select Committee on 

 Forestry : — 



Mr. Wm. Corbet, Dr. Farquharson, Mr. Fremantle, ]\Ir. ^Ynl. 

 Henry Gladstone, Sir G. Macpherson Grant, Sir John Kennaway, 

 Sir Edmund Lechmere, Sir John Lubbock, Dr. Lyons, Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell, Colonel Nolan, Colonel King-Harman, Mr. Parnell, Mr. 

 Plunket, Mr. Portman, Mr. Piound, Mr. Seely, jun., Mr. Moore 

 Stevens, and Mr. Villiers Stuart. Sir John Lubbock has been 

 appointed chairman ; and the Conmiittee have already begun to 

 take evidence. 



Despite the individual preference expressed in the House by the 

 present Chief Commissioner of H.M. Woods and Forests for Coopers 

 Hill as the site of the future School of Forestry, the Edinburgh 

 Committee for promoting the Scottish Forest School are hopeful 

 that the claims of their institution may be recognised. We under- 

 stand that they have determined to suspend active operations mean- 

 while, till the Select Committee of the House of Commons issues 

 some certain sound. 



Diseased Elms. — At a meetiug in London, Dr. Masters mentioned 

 that an avenue of elms fifteen years old, in Guernsey, had some 

 thirty or forty trees dying without any apparent cause. 



New Zealand. — Sir J. Vogel has announced his intention to 

 bring a bill into the New Zealand Parliament at its next session to 

 preserve the forest trees of the colony, as well as to promote tree- 

 planting on Government lands. Professor Kirk, formerly curator 

 for the Auckland Acclimatization Society, and whose fame has 

 spread in British botanical circles, will probably be appointed to 

 carry out the provisions of the Act. 



Chicory Cultivation ix Otago. — Already forty acres are in 

 crop this season at Messrs. Gregg & Co.'s Chicory farm and mill 

 at Lichclutha ; and next year fifty acres will be sown. The colonial 

 chicory is said to far surpass that imported by our coffee merchants 

 from Holland. Fully a dozen hands already find constant work 

 on the Otago plantation. 



