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have had M'Corquodale, Dr Brown, the late Professor Balfour, 

 our late lamented friend Malcolm Dunn, and many others I 

 might mention. The Society has done a great work in the past; 

 I trust it will do as much in the future. Its influence in foster- 

 ing the objects of its existence has been far-reaching. It has 

 stimulated Forestry through its literature, because its Transactions 

 are a mine of information to all who have the subject at heart. 

 It has fostered the subject through the encouragement that it 

 has given to young foresters to put their best efforts into their 

 work, to record their experience, and to publish their literary 

 eff'orts for the benefit of others. It has done a great deal to 

 stimulate the Government, by voicing public opinion, by making 

 representations to Ministers, and by securing such Committees 

 as that which has recently reported. I really doubt very much 

 whether we all realise how much the Society has done in that 

 respect. The Report of the Forestry Committee has, of course, 

 by no means yet borne its full fruit, but, as a consequence of 

 that Report, we have had enormous activity. We have the 

 College of Bangor preparing a scheme showing how it is qualified 

 to give advice to the wood-owners of North Wales, how it is 

 prepared to establish a lectureship, to set up model plantations; 

 we have Aberystwyth in the same condition ; we have Newcastle 

 coming to us with a scheme; we have the Midland Institute; 

 we have the South-Eastem College at Wye. As the result of 

 this Committee, which this Society has secured by representations 

 to Ministers, we have had in this respect an enormous influence 

 on education. The Committee, further, has been the means of 

 starting a forest school in the Forest of Dean for the benefit of 

 working foresters. We have the Woods and Forests Commis- 

 sioners putting Alice Holt, one of the Government properties, 

 under a definite working scheme, as recommended by the 

 Forestry Committee. In these and many other ways this 

 Society has done an enormous deal to stimulate this important 

 subject. Now we look back on the past with pleasure, and, I 

 may say, with satisfaction; but our eyes in future must be to the 

 front. We, I think, may profit by what we have experienced, 

 but, in the main, I think we should not be badly advised if we 

 pursued the same moderate, well reasoned, and sensible course 

 that we have pursued in the past, leaving no opportunity neglected 

 to stimulate interest in our subject, and in every way encouraging 

 the success of the craft that we have all so much at heart. With 



