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so as to enable it at an early date to enjoy the benefits of a Eoyal 

 Charter, which is the only thing now wanting to render the Society 

 one of the permanent, as it is now one of the leading institutions of 

 the country. We also trust that the well-timed and judicious remarks 

 of the President, upon the great necessity for something being done 

 for the early establishment of a School of Forestry in this country, will 

 have its due weight with the members of the Society, and stir them 

 up to take an active interest in a matter that so deeply affects the 

 future of forestry in the British dominions. This subject was after- 

 wards prominently brought before the meeting in an interesting paper 

 read by our able correspondent, the Eev. J. C. Brown, LL.D., and we 

 are gratified to see it set down for one of the subjects to be discussed 

 at the next Annual Meeting ; but in the meantime we would much 

 like to see the Council, as representing the Society, and comprising 

 some of the ablest and most experienced members, taking an active 

 and leading part in promoting the establishment of a Forest School. 

 The advice and influence which the Council could bring to bear upon 

 this important matter would be invaluable towards its speedy accom- 

 plishment, and no hesitation should be made in using it w^hen it 

 involves the Society in no pecuniary responsibility, and is of such 

 vital importance to the future prosperity of British forestry. 



As we give in another place a full report of the meeting, we need 

 make no farther comment than to say that the arrangements for con- 

 ducting the business were most complete, and satisfactorily carried 

 out under the active superintendence of the experienced and energetic 

 Secretary, Mr. John Sadler, F.E.Ph.S., and to wish the Society the 

 utmost success in its future proceedings, which it has so well merited 

 in the past by its praiseworthy and persevering endeavours to stimu- 

 late an interest in forestry, and to spread a knowledge of its best prin- 

 ciples throughout the length and breadth of the land. 



The deep interest taken by our readers in the various methods of 

 seasoning and preserving timber, fence-posts, &c., from rot and prema- 

 ture decay, has been fully evinced in our pages during the last few 

 months, and shows the great importance of the subject to foresters, and 

 all others who have the construction and keeping in repair of build- 

 ings and wooden erections upon landed estates, or the supply of 

 timber for the various wants of railways, mines, &c., where fungoid 

 rot, and consequent quick decay, causes such a waste in timber, and 

 a heavy expense in having so often to renew it. Our attention has 

 lately been drawn to a new process of seasoning and preserving timber, 

 which we think is likely to be found much more efficient and generally 

 applicable than any of the methods formerly in use. 



