LVIII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
ally with respect both to the wooded and prairie districts of Canada, 
and to teach the rising generation the value of the forest with the view 
of enlisting their efforts in its preservation. 
In accordance with a resolution passed at the tirst annual meeting, 
arrangements were made with the publishers of “ Rod and Gun in 
Canada,” a monthly periodical devoted to the fishing, game and forest 
‘interests of Canada, by which this publication was made the official 
organ, and certain of its pages have since been set apart for forestry. 
Provision was made over a year ago for the conduct of the Forestry 
Department in the official organ by the appointment of Mr. E. Stewart 
as editor and Mr. R. H. Campbell as sub-editor. The editors are 
endeavouring to render this department as interesting and useful as 
possible, and so far as the space at their disposal will permit they give 
attention to all branches of the work of the Association. 
A number of meetings in the interests of forestry have been held 
in different parts of the country during the past year. In British 
Columbia, through the efforts of our honoured President, who is now 
the Lieutenant-Governor of that province, several meetings have been 
held and a decided interest awakened in forestry in that part of the 
Dominion. By the kindness of the Canadian Institute a well-attended 
meeting was held in Toronto under the joint auspices of the Institute 
and our Association on the 12th of January last, and on the 21st and 
22nd of the same month, a conference on the subject of forestry educa- 
tion was held at Queen’s University, Kingston. The conference was 
not initiated by the Association, which was, however, represented at its 
deliberations. These meetings have done much to call attention to the 
work of the Association and arouse an interest in forestry. 
A large number of meetings were held in Manitoba and the North- 
west Territories during the past winter by Mr. E. Stewart, the Dominion 
Superintendent of Forestry. As a result considerable addition has 
been made to our membership there, local forestry circles have been 
formed at a number of places, and a very lively interest has been awak- 
ened in the cultivation of shelter belts and forest groves where none 
exist in a natural state. 
The second annual meeting of the Association was held in the 
railway committee room of the House of Commons, and was well 
attended by gentlemen representing various interests in the country. 
It was gratifying to find that those who had made a scientific study 
of forestry were not by any means left alone to take part in the delibera- 
tions, but that the leading lumbermen of the country showed by their 
presence and addresses that they are alive to the necessity of the adoption 
of more rational methods in their operations than formerly prevailed. 
Papers were also read dealing with the subject of forest cultivation on 
