8 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



connection between agriculture and forestry. You will note 

 the curious parallel. In America the agricultural branch 

 existed under the Secretary for Agriculture, but there was no 

 forestry branch. During the same period in India there was 

 a forestry branch but no specialised agricultural one. In 

 both countries the two absent branches came into being at 

 about the same time. But in each case there was no differ- 

 ence of opinion as to the department they should be included 

 under. 



" We have, therefore, as an example to us, two of the greatest 

 agricultural countries in the world, in both of which forestry 

 forms a branch under the Secretary for Agriculture thus 

 assuring that these two important industries, which are so 

 intimately connected and dependent upon each other, should 

 work hand in hand. Should we not consider this evidence 

 good enough ? Remember if we make a mistake now we 

 shall put back the cause of forestry by decades." 



Mr Menmuir, Edinburgh. — " I would like to alter the resolu- 

 tion. Instead of having ' placing the Central Control of Forest 

 Policy under men conversant with the subject,' I think it would 

 be better if it read, ' placing the Central Control of Forest Policy 

 in Scotland under men conversant with the science and art 

 of Forestry.' There is a great difference between a man 

 who knows the scientific or theoretical aspect of forestry and 

 one who is acquainted with the practical side of the subject, 

 and I think the expression 'conversant with the subject' does 

 not very well carry out the idea of the Society, because a man 

 may consider he is conversant with the subject and may be only 

 a theorist in forestry. I think this Control Board should be 

 made up of men thoroughly conversant with the whole subject 

 of forestry, both theoretical and practical, and considering what 

 was said in Parliament on Saturday in regard to the governing 

 of the different countries, I think it would be for our benefit to 

 put ' in Scotland ' in, because there is no doubt that this idea of 

 managing our internal affairs ourselves is a question of practical 

 politics." 



The Chairman (the Duke of Buccleuch). — " Do you move an 

 amendment?" 



Mr Menmuir. — " Well, I might put that in as an amendment 

 — To leave out the clause marked (i) in paragraph 2 of the 

 resolution, and to substitute 'of placing the Central Control of 



