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brought home to Mr Munro, so that he might know in what 

 respect he might help us," 



The proposal was unanimously agreed to. 



The Chairman, in proposing a cordial vote of thanks to Sir 

 John Stirling-Maxwell for his address, said they were always glad 

 to hear him upon a subject which he had made his own. He 

 had always something interesting to say, and they appreciated 

 his kindness in agreeing to open the discussion. Sir John 

 Stirling-Maxwell, in acknowledging, said their thanks were 

 also due to Sir Charles Bine Renshaw and Mr Carlow. A 

 vote of thanks was awarded to Sir Andrew Agnew for presiding, 

 on the motion of Mr Charles Buchanan, Penicuik, and the 

 meeting afterwards closed. 



2. State Forest Policy in America. 



By Edgar C. Hirst, State Forester of New Hampshire (on leave). 



Among the several forestry contingents which the great need 

 for lumber in Britain and France have brought from Canada 

 and the United States to carry on logging and milling opera- 

 tions on this side of the Atlantic, there is a civilian complement 

 of over three hundred men recruited in the lumbering regions 

 of northern New England and now operating ten saw-mills in 

 north-eastern Ross-shire and south-eastern Sutherlandshire. 

 The writer, who is in charge of these operations, has been 

 asked to contribute an article to the Transactions of the Royal 

 Scottish Arboricultural Society on state forest policy in America. 

 An apology must be made at the start for the lack of reference 

 material at hand, and the fact that various phases of the subject 

 must therefore be treated in general terms. Most of the 

 examples cited are from the north-eastern states, with which 

 the writer is most familiar. 



The most striking difference in appearance between the 

 scenery in the uplands of New England and the Highlands of 

 Scotland is due to the absence here, over large areas, of natural 

 forest growth. The topography of the two regions is very 

 similar, and the climate not radically different, although in 

 New England there is more snow, steady cold, and lower 

 temperatures. 



