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large supplies of pitwood are sent to this country, we may 
presume that we are indebted to our French neighbours for 
much of the trouble we have with insect pests in our young 
pine plantations. 
For several years we have had a recurrence of severe attacks 
of the Branded Weevil, Pissodes notatus, notwithstanding our 
constant efforts to root it out. This year, however, I have 
discovered what appears to be the real source of the attack, those 
insect-infested derelict logs, and since then I have carefully 
stripped off and burned the bark of every log washed askore. It 
is possible that similar attacks are occurring in other parts of the 
country, which, if inquired into, may perhaps be traced to the same 
source—imported timber, seriously infested with insect pests. 
ARCHIBALD MITCHELL, Forester, Dunraven Castle. 
THe DEPUTATION TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BoaRD OF 
AGRICULTURE. 
At a meeting of the Council, held in the beginning of September 
last, Mr Munro Ferguson, the President of the Society, mentioned 
that the Right Honourable Walter H. Long, President of the 
Board of Agriculture, had agreed to visit Edinburgh for the 
purpose of conferring with the leading agriculturists of Scotland 
on agricultural matters, and suggested that advantage should be 
taken of this opportunity to ask Mr Long to receive a deputation, 
which should represent the views of the Society regarding matters 
affecting Forestry in Scotland. The suggestion was unanimously 
adopted, and on being appealed to, Mr Long very courteously 
agreed to receive the deputation in the office of the Secretary for 
Scotland, Parliament Square, on Wednesday, 23rd October, at 
12 o'clock noon. A notice was inserted in the newspapers 
intimating the meeting, and inviting the members of the Society 
and others interested in Forestry to accompany the deputation. 
The result was a large attendance of members, and the Scottish 
office being too small for the meeting, the use of the New Court 
Room was obtained for the purpose. 
Mr Long was accompanied by his private secretary, Mr Arthur 
W. Anstruther, and Sir Jacob Wilson, Director of the Land 
Division of the Board of Agriculture. 
