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as Mr Hutchins's paper had already been accepted, the Council 

 considered that two papers on forestry in one session would be too 

 much for the members. Since then, that is to say in June 1900, 

 Monsieur Melard, Inspector of Forests at Paris, has published a 

 pamphlet on the "Insufficiency of the Production of Timber in the 

 World." This pamphlet is drawn up on lines similar to those 

 of my lecture given at the Imperial Institute in 1897, but 

 Monsieur Melard brings in a number of non-European countries 

 with which I had not dealt, as not directly affecting the British 

 Empire. Some of Monsieur Melard's data referring to non- 

 European countries and to France I have utilised ; but as regards 

 the principal sources of supply I shall give my own figures, 

 which in many cases differ considerably from those given by 

 Monsieur Melard. 



In order to do justice to my task, I must give a considerable 

 amount of statistics. For simplicity's sake I have arranged them 

 into numerous small Tables, each of which presents a particular 

 point. I have rounded off the figures to full thousands, a departure 

 from accuracy which is quite inappreciable. 



In some cases I could give the quantities and values of the 

 imports and exports ; in others, unfortunately, only the one or the 

 other. 



I shall begin with Europe, and then deal with non-European 

 countries. My data referring to the former are fairly complete, 

 which, however, cannot be said of those referring to the latter. 



I need scarcely point out that, within the space of one hour, 

 I can only touch very lightly on many points, on which I should 

 have liked to go into details. 



The first Table to which I desire to invite your attention, is that 

 which shows the areas classed as forests in the several European 

 countries. 



