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only approximate figures taken from the 

 yield given in German forests. 



There is one matter to which I musl: 

 draw attention, that is the scale of 

 charges levied to give animals a fre^ 

 right to destroy young trees, which 

 varies from Is. 6d. for a horse, to 3d. 

 for a goat, one of the most destructive, 

 if not the most destructive animal that 

 can be turned into a forest, except, per- 

 haps, a camel. 



The great necessitj^ for a Forest De- 

 partment is to see that the young trees 

 which make the forest of the future are 

 cared for. Without this a forest is 

 either destroyed by being cut down, or, 

 in due course, it perishes naturally, and 

 disappears of itself. In either case the re- 

 sult is deeply to be deplored, for when 

 once a forest disappears it can onlj^ be 

 replaced at a great expense of time and 

 money. 



As a proof of Vv-hat has already been 

 effected in India by forest officers edu- 

 cated in European schools, I may men- 

 tion that in 1884 there were in that 

 country 9,820,000 acres of reserved for- 

 ests, the whole of which are managed on 

 the principles taught in the European 

 Schools of Forestry, and 2,493,010 which 

 are protected from fire, as well as cattle 

 and sheep grazing, and goats, and con- 

 sequently are now in 'a condition to 

 reproduce themselves, under the natural 

 system, and as perhaps the most con- 

 vincing proof, from a financial point of 

 view of the value of the sj^stem, the 

 forest revenue, which in 1S70 was ^57,- 

 OOO, of which =£52,000 was profit, in 1830 

 reached j6545,0u0 with a net profit of 

 c£215 000; and in 190O the gross revenue was 

 .£1,235,425, with a net profit of .£50o,250. 

 These figures speak so very eloquently 

 that no comment is needed. 



A Forest Act was passed in South 

 Australia in 1878, and in 1883 a quarter 

 of a million trees Avere planted out, and 

 the forest revenue amounted to .£6,517, 

 against ^an expenditure of .£6,200. Last 

 year the revenue was ^£14,421; the ex- 

 penditure, as far as can be seen from 

 the Blue book, .£12,675. 



Why cannot we also secure the pre- 

 servation of our forests, and plant, when 

 forests are destroyed for the purpose of 

 of agriculture, to restore, or rather 

 maintain, what Nature has done to ren- 

 der the Tasmanian climate one of the 

 most perfect in the world. 



Adjourned Discussion. 



A proposed discussicn on Mr. Heyn's 



paper was jDostponed till next meeting. 



Vote of Thanks. 

 On the motion of His Excellency, a 



vote of thanks was passed to those who 

 had read papers. 



The proceedings then terminated. 



Geographical 



1st session, 



List of works presented to the Royal 

 Society's Library during the month of 

 June : — 



Atti della Reale Acsdemia dei Science, 

 Roma, current numbers, from the So- 

 ciety. 



Records of the Australian Museum, 

 vol. VI., No. 6. From the Trustees. 



Journal of the Linnean Society, 

 London, vol. XXVIII., Zoologv, No. 

 184, XXXV., Botany, No. 244. " From 

 the Society. 



Proceedings of the 

 Society of Australasia, 

 1885-6, vol. I. 



From the Society. Notes sur les 

 Fourmrs et Les Guepes Extracts 

 des Comptes rendus de<s Seances 

 de I'Academie des Sciences. Rapports 

 des Animaux. Myrmecophiles avec les 

 Fcurmis, 1897. _ Liste des Travaux 

 Scientifiques. Les habitations a Bon 

 Marche dans Villes les de Moyenne Im- 

 portance. Sur I'Emploi de Desinences. 

 Caracteiistiques dans les Denominations. 

 des groupes etablis pour les Classifica- 

 tions. Reclierches sur L'Anatomie de la 

 Fourmi et es^ai sur la Constitution. 

 Mcrpholcgique L'Esthetaque dans les 

 Sciences. De la Nature. From the 

 Academie, Paris, 



Contribution to Canadian Palseon- 

 tolop-v. vol. 11., part 2. "Canadian Fcssil 

 InsEcts,'' by S. H. Scudder. Additions 

 to the Coleopterous fauna of the Inter- 

 glacial ciays of the Toronto district. 

 With an appendix, by A. D. Hopkins, on 

 the Scolytid borings from the same de- 

 posit, vol. IV., part 2. A revision of the 

 genera, and species of Canadian Palaeo- 

 zoic Corals, the Madreporaria aporosa 

 and M. rugosa, by L. M. Lambe, F.G.S. 

 Catalogue of the Marine Invertebrata 

 of Eastern Canada, by J. F. Whiteaves, 

 LL.D., F.G.S. From, the Geological 

 Survey of Canada. 



Journal of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment of Victoria, vol. I., part 6, 1902. 

 From the department. 



A Trencsen Varmegyei Termeszet- 

 tud Qmanyi Egylet, 190(3-1. From the 

 Society. 



The Quarterly Journal of tbe Geologi- 

 cal Society, vol. LVIII.. May 15, 1902, 

 No. 230. From the Society. 



The "Emu," vol. II., No. 1. Fnm ihe 

 Societv. Melbourne, 



The Indicator on Gold Mining, No. 3, 



