as possible. About one hundred cards have already been returned. 

 If considered desirable, the Council will endeavour to arrange 

 that those Members who cannot spare the time to undertake the 

 whole trip, may return home after inspecting the Forest School 

 at Nancy and the State Forests in that neighbourhood. The 

 expense of this part of the trip would be rather more than half 

 the expense of the whole tour, but this cannot be ascertained 

 for some time. 



Register of Foresters. 



The Society's Register of Foresters and others is now in opera- 

 tion, and a considerable number of men, wishing either employment 

 or promotion, have sent their names to the Secretary. The 

 Council appeal to proprietors and others requiring Estate men to 

 make use of the Society's Register. 



.S7 Louis Exliibition. 



At the General Meeting in July, it was remitted to the Council 

 to procure photographs of American Conifers grown in this 

 country, to send to the St Louis Exhibition, and Mr Richardson, 

 the Society's Photographer, was authorised to prepare the 

 photographs, a sum of ;^2o being voted for the purpose. 



It is understood that, owing to the unsuitable weather, Mr 

 Richardson has as yet been unable to procure all the photographs 

 required, but that he hopes to get the remainder in the course of 

 next month. 



Railway Rates. 



In the course of the year, the Council appointed a Committee 

 to collect information on the subject of alleged preferential 

 Railway Rates on Foreign timber. The result of their labours 

 has been recorded in a note which will be found at page 318 of 

 last year's Transactions. Further communications on the subject 

 will be welcomed. 



Coopers Hill. 



At a recent meeting of the Council, Mr MuxRO Ferguson 

 mentioned that a Committee of Inquiry was then sitting, in 

 connection with the Forestry Branch of the Engineering College 

 at Coopers Hill. He thought that the Coopers Hill establish- 

 ment should be transferred to a University centre, and he 

 recommended that the Council should lay before the India 

 Office a representation in favour of Edinburgh being made that 

 centre. The Council approved of Mr Ferguson's suggestion, and 

 he was authorised to make such a representation, which he did 

 by calling personally at the India Office and the Board of 

 Agriculture. 



