HE deeply regret to announce the death of one whose name 

 figured prominently in our pages during our recent discussion 

 of the important question of forest destruction in America. 

 In forestry circles Mr. James Little's name was widely known, and 

 his loss will he w^idely deplored. We give, elsewhere, an extract from 

 a Canadian contemporary that will serve to show the estimation in 

 which ]\[r. Little was held in America. Forestry can ill afford to 

 lose such men. In the case of Mr. James Little, however, the cause 

 of American forestry has an admirable defender in the person of his 

 son, whose interesting articles on the subject of the destruction of 

 American forests attracted so much attention in recent numbers of 

 * Forestry.' Mr. William Little has already taken up the work in 

 which his father was so long engaged, and we trust that ere long his 

 labours will produce the desired impression upon the American and 

 Canadian governments and upon the transatlantic public. 



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The Annual General Meeting of the Scottish Arboricultural Society 

 lias passed off again, with considerably more than the accustomed 

 amount of success. Occurring at a time when the public mind is 

 full of anticipations of the Great International Forestry Exhibition, it 

 attracted more attention to its proceedings, than any previous 

 meeting of the Society could have done. And after a study of the 

 details of the business done — a full report of which we give in our 

 present issue — we believe that most readers will agree with us when 

 we say that the Society is doing excellent work in advancing the 

 interests of forestry, and bids fair to command success in the noble 

 efforts it is making to raise the science and arc of forestry in this 



