TRANSACTIONS 



OF THR 



ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBOR I CULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I. Discussion on Forestry Administration and Forestry 

 Education at the General Meeting held on 3rd 

 July 1918. 



The Duke of Buccleuch, President of the Society, who was 

 Chairman of the Meeting, called on the Secretary to read the 

 resolution on Forestry Administration, which was in the follow- 

 ing terms : — 



" This General Meeting of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society welcomes the announcement that a Committee 

 of the Cabinet has the question of Forestry Administra- 

 tion under consideration. 

 " The Meeting desires to impress on Lord Curzon and 

 Mr Barnes the paramount necessity (1) of placing the 

 Central Control of Forest Policy under men conversant 

 with the subject; (2) of freeing the local administration 

 in Scotland from the subservience to agricultural 

 administration under which it has hitherto laboured ; 

 and (3) of making immediate progress with the replant- 

 ing of cleared areas and the planting of large additional 

 areas, so that public opinion may be satisfied that steps 

 are being taken to protect the country from the grave 

 national danger of a timber famine in the future. 

 "The Meeting respectfully repeats to the Government a 

 request made to the Minister of Reconstruction that 

 this Society should have an opportunity of considering 

 and expressing its views upon schemes in contemplation 

 before they are actually adopted." 



Mr A. D. Richardson, Edinburgh. — "I have been asked to 

 move this resolution, and I am sorry that some one more able 

 to do justice to it than I am has not been selected for the 

 purpose. In the first place, I think it is a matter of much 



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