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It would be of the greatest assistance to the Committee if I could be 

 furnished, as early as possible, with a short summary of the evidence 

 that your Society may propose to offer, and also, if possible, with copies 

 of any tables or documents to which your representative may intend 

 to refer. — I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 



R. H. Hooker, 

 Secretary to the Covimittee. 

 The Secretary, 



Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, 



5 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh. 



{Enclosure referred to.) 



" The Right Hon. R. W. Hanbdry, M.P., President of the Board of 

 Agriculture, has appointed a Departmental Committee to inquire into 

 and report as to the present position and future prospects of forestry, 

 and the planting and management of woodlands in Great Britain, and 

 to consider whether any measures might with advantage be taken, 

 either by the provision of further educational facilities or otherwise, for 

 their promotion and encouragement. 



" The Committee consists of the following gentlemen, viz. : — 



" Mr Ronald C. Mimro Ferguson, M.P. (Chairman) ; Sir John F. L. 

 Rolleston, M.P. ; Mr Edward Stafford Howard, C.B., a Commissioner 

 of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues ; Professor W. 

 Schlich, C.I.E., Ph.D., Professor of Forestry, Royal Indian Engineering 

 College, Coopers Hill ; Colonel Frederick Bailey, R.E., Lecturer on 

 Forestry, Edinburgh University; Professor John R. Campbell, B.Sc, 

 an Assistant Secretary to the Department of Agriculture and other 

 Industries and Technical Instruction for Ireland ; Mr John Herbert 

 Lewis, M.P., Mr George Marshall, and Dr William SomerviUe, an 

 Assistant Secretary to the Board of Agriculture. Mr Reginald H. 

 Hooker, of the Board of Agriculture, is the Secretary to the 

 Committee." 



Board of Agriculture, 

 4 Whitehall Place, London, S.W., 

 2Qth February 1902. 



The Secretary explained that he had furnished the Committee 

 with copies of the pamphlet containing the views of the Society 

 on the establishment of State Model Forests for Scotland; and 

 that, at the request of the Council, Mr Donald Robertson, 

 Forester, Dunrobin, had attended in London, and had given 

 evidence on behalf of the Society before the Committee. 



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