Journal of the Department 

 OF Agriculture. 



Vol. II. FEBRUARY, 1921. No. 



Published monthly in English and Afrikaans by the Department of Agriculture, 



Union of South Africa. 



Editor: G. W. Klerck. 



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NOTES. 



Meeting of Forest Department Officers. 



There are many problems connected with forests which can 

 only be solved by the close co-operation of the botanist and the 

 forester, e.g. the correct determination of forest trees, the causes 

 responsible for their distribution, their fungous and bacterial diseases, 

 etc., and the co-operation existing' between the Forest Department 

 and the Botany Division was more closely knit on the 6th January last, 

 when the officers attending the Forestry Conference in Pretoria were 

 entertained by Dr. I. B. Pole-Evans and his staff. At tlie meeting. 

 Dr. Pole-Evans briefly reviewed the work of both scientific and 

 economic importance carried out in co-operation between his Division 

 and the Forest Department. Reference was made to the investiga- 

 tions of Dr. Phillips, Miss Hofmeyr, and Miss Verdoom at the 

 National Herbarium on important groups of forest trees, which have 

 elucidated some of the confusion which has hitherto existed. A 

 number of interesting lantern slides were sliOAvn by Dr. Pole-Evans 

 illustrating the vegetation of the various botanical regions of South 

 Africa. Mr. Legat, Chief Conservator of Forests, referred in the 

 course of a speech to the co-operation and goodwill which has 

 hitherto existted between the two departments and foreshadowed 

 greater assistance still in the future from one 1o the other. In one 

 direction alone this was assured, and that was in connection with the 

 botanical survey, the speaker having been appointed to the commiftee 

 to watch forest interests. 



The visitors were shoAvn the various laboratories, the Botanical 

 Museum, and the National Herbarium. The meeting was most 

 successful, and it is felt much benefit will ensue from the mutual 

 understanding it has further engendered between the officers of the 

 two departments of the many directions in whicli they are inter- 

 dependent. 



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