104 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE 

 HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1887, ON FORESTRY. 



The Select Committee on Forestry — extracts from the Reports 

 of which have appeared in the Traiisactions for the last two 

 years — was ordered by the House of Commons to be re-appointed 

 on the 16th of May 1887, " <o consider whether, hy the estahlish- 

 meMt of a Forest School, or otherwise, our Woodlands could 

 be rendered more remunerative." 



The Committee was nominated on the 20th of May, and con- 

 sisted of the following members: — Viscount Ebrington, Sir Edmund 

 Lechmere, Sir John Lubbock, Sir Richard Temple, Colonel King- 

 Harman, Colonel Nolan, Dr Farquharson, and Messrs C. Acland, 

 Biddulph, Craig Sellar, Evelyn, Farquharson, Munro Ferguson, 

 Gilhooly, Egerton Hubbard, Fuller Maitland, Rankin, and Mark 

 Stewart ; five members to be a quorum. Sir Edmund Lechmere 

 was elected Chairman of the Committee. 



At six meetings held by the Committee on the 8th, 15th, and 

 28th June; 6th, 12th, and 20th July, for the examination of 

 witnesses, the following gave evidence : — William Barron, land- 

 scape gardener, Borrowash, Derby ; John Wrightson, Professor 

 of Agriculture, Downton College, Hants ; Rev. John B. M'Clellan, 

 Principal of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester ; Earl of 

 Ducie, Tortworth Court; Thomas J. Elliot, Professor of Estate 

 Management, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester ; Earl 

 Bathurst, Oakley Park, Cirencester; Sir James Campbell, 

 Bart., Deputy-Surveyor, Dean Forest, Gloucestershire; H. A. 

 Britton, Timber Valuer, Wolverhampton ; Hon. G. Lascelles, 

 Deputy Surveyor, New Forest, Hants; John M'Gregor, Forester, 

 Dunkeld, N.B.; William M'Corquodale, Forester, Scone, Perth; 

 John G. Thomson, Forester, Grantown, N.B. ; Robert Dundas 

 of Arniston, Midlothian ; Rev. T. E. F. Flannery, Parish Priest, 

 Carna, County Galway ; Andrew Gilchrist, Forester, Powerscourt, 

 County Wicklow ; John Glutton, Ex-President of the Surveyors' 

 Institution, London; Evan Powell, Land Agent, Llanidloes, Wales; 

 Sir Joseph D. Hooker, Ex-Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew ; 

 Rev. John C. Brown, Haddington, N.B. ; Viscount Powerscourt, 

 Powerscourt, County Wicklow ; Sir Alexander Taylor, President of 



