REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 119 
REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE 
HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1885, ON FORESTRY. 
On the 15th of May 1885, on the motion of Sir John Lubbock, 
Bart., it was ordered—“ That a Select Committee be appointed to 
consider whether, by the establishment of a Forest School, or other- 
wise, our Woodlands could be rendered more remunerative.” 
The Committee was nominated on the 8th of July, and ulti- 
mately comprised the following nineteen members of the House of 
Commons :—Mr William Corbet, Dr Farquharson, Mr Fremantle, 
Mr William Henry Gladstone, Sir G. Macpherson Grant, Sir John 
Kennaway, Sir Edmund Lechmere, Sir John Lubbock, Dr Lyons, 
Sir Herbert Maxwell, Colonel Nolan, Mr Parnell, Mr Plunket, Mr 
Portman, Mr Round, Mr Seely, jun., Mr Moore Stevens, Mr 
Villiers Stuart, and Colonel King Harman. 
It was ordered that Five Members form a Quorwm, and that the 
Committee have power to send for Persons, Papers, and Records. 
The Committee met for deliberation on the 14th July, when Sir 
John Lubbock was elected Chairman, and adjourned till the 21st 
July. On that date the Committee met and examined two wit- 
nesses—Mr William G. Pedder and Colonel James Michael, C.S.L., 
and then adjourned to the 24th July, when it heard the evidence 
of Dr Hugh Cleghorn, Colonel George Pearson, Mr W. T. Thisel- 
ton Dyer, and Mr Julian Rogers ; after which the following report 
was proposed by the Chairman, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., duly 
read, and agreed to :— 
“ Your Committee are of opinion that at this late period of the 
Session it will not be in their power to conclude their investigation ; 
they have therefore agreed to Report the Evidence already taken to 
the House, and to recommend that a Committee on the same subject 
should be appointed in the next Session of Parliament.—24th July 
1885.” 
The evidence tendered by the witnesses during their several 
examinations is of a very comprehensive nature, and although the 
details are more or less interesting, they are too voluminous 
to be given in full in the Society's Z’ransactions. However, 
those who desire to peruse the Parliamentary Report may pro- 
cure it for 74d. through any bookseller. In the following copious 
extracts the gist of the inquiry and its bearings on British forestry 
is given. 
