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Editorial Notes. 



We understand that a final meeting of the Executive Committee 

 of the Forestry Exhibition took place on February 16th, when the 

 balance of funds in hand, amounting to nearly £200, was formally 

 transferred to the School of Forestry Committee, of which the 

 Marquis of Lothian is President. It was also decided at the same 

 meeting to hand over a large collection of valuable and rare 

 specimens of woods and other forest products, which had been 

 presented to the committee by various exhibitors, to the Director of 

 the Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgli, for the purpose of 

 forming part of a museum for forestry students at Edinburgh. This 

 is encouraging and liberal on the part of the Executive Committee 

 of the late Forestry Exhibition, and we hope it will be followed up 

 by those who have at heart the advancement of forest science in 

 this country with increased energy, so as to bring about the estab- 

 lishment of the much-wanted Forestry School. 



We are informed that the Committee of the great International 

 Industrial Exhibition, which is to be opened in Edinburgh in ]\Iay 

 next, has placed at the service of the Council of the Scottish Arbori- 

 cultural Society, a suitable amount of sj^ace in the Exhibition to 

 make an instructive display of forest products, and of articles con- 

 nected with forestry. We understand it is proposed to erect a 

 " Trophy " of carefully selected specimens from the Society's large 

 collection ; and to arrange around the court, and upon the walls, a 

 choice selection of natural and manufactured wood articles ; tools, 

 implements, scientific instruments, books, maps, plans, etc. ; all of 

 which will form an attractive and instructive feature in the Exhibi- 

 tion, and prove a centre of great interest to the numerous visitors 

 interested in forests and their products. 



Desteuction of Woods by the Late Storm. — We hear that in 

 the plantations of the Auchterarder district of Perthshire many of 

 the Scotch fir-trees have been sadly broken and disfigured by the 

 late heavy snow. The rabbits also have done great havoc among 

 young trees — limes, elms, and ashes being stripped of their bark 

 round and round. 



