78 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



The Great War. 



The Society's Roll of Honour. 

 Eighth List. 1 



Bremner, John, Clerk of Works, Balmoral Castle. 2nd Lieut., 



R.A.F. 

 Doull, Donald. Private, 2nd Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. 

 Fraser-Tytler, Major Neil, D.S.O., of Aldowrie. R.H.A. 

 M c Kay, John B., Edinburgh. Captain, 4th K.O.S.B. 

 Prior-Wandesforde, Capt. R. H., of Castlecomer. R.F.A. 

 Stewart, Peter, Benmore, Kilmun. Sapper, 76th Field Coy., 



R.E. 



1 For First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Lists see 

 Vol. xxix. p. 192, Vol. xxx. pp. 47 and 129, Vol. xxxi. pp. 66 and 168, 

 Vol. xxxii. pp. 97 and 203, respectively. 



Collection of Statistics. 



The Interim Forest Authority has indicated to the Society 

 that it would be glad to have the assistance of the members 

 in completing the statistical work which the Board of Agri- 

 culture and Fisheries in England and Wales, and the Timber 

 Supply Department in Scotland have been carrying on. The 

 work is proceeding on uniform lines in England and Wales, 

 Scotland and Ireland, and its objects are broadly twofold — 



(r) To determine the timber-producing capacity of the 

 various types of land which are now under woodland 

 or may be available for afforestation. 

 (2) To determine the quality of the timber which may be 

 grown. 

 The attainment of the first object is being sought by measur- 

 ing on a set plan plots of growing timber (chiefly conifers), and 

 several hundred plots have already been dealt with. As regards 

 the second object, timber samples are being collected and tested. 

 It is intended to publish the results of these investigations 

 in due course. The publications will probably take the form 

 of a series of bulletins dealing with — 



(1) The individual species. 



(2) The silvicultural characteristics of different districts. 



