222 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
annual grant of £500, would suffice to provide the required area ; 
and the concluding section of the note shows why privately owned 
forests would not answer the object in view, and why the Society 
is therefore compelled to ask the Government to aid it in these its 
first efforts towards the improvement of Forestry in this country, 
by providing a State Model Forest in connection with the Forest 
School in Edinburgh. 
We trust that you will consider our representations favourably, 
and will use your influence to induce Her Majesty’s Government 
to accede to the petition of the Society. 
We have the honour to be, 
SIR 
Your obedient Servants, 
(Signed) FRED. BAILEY, President. 
3 R. C. MUNRO FERGUSON, J/on. Secy. 
* R. GALLOWAY, Secy. 
