part will be ready for issue in the course of this month. It will 

 include amongst other articles a report of the conference with 

 the Interim Forest Authority and a list of members elected 

 since the beginning of the war. Owing to the unexpectedly 

 large increase of members the Council has found it necessary 

 to reprint the Transactions for last year, so as to admit of each 

 member receiving the two parts for that year. The Council 

 also determined that members serving with the Forces, either at 

 home or abroad, should receive the Transactions free durin°- 

 their absence from civil employment. 



Essays. 



Two essays were received and reported on by the Judges. 

 Major Leather of Middleton Hall was awarded a bronze medal 

 for his essay on an estate creosoting plant. The other essay 

 was not considered of sufficient merit to obtain an award. 



Development of Afforestation. 



The following Resolution, which was unanimously passed at 

 last Annual Business Meeting, was sent to Ministers and 

 Government Departments interested in forestry : — 



"That this Meeting of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society welcomes the publication of the Report of the 

 Forestry Sub-Committee of the Reconstruction Com- 

 mittee, and urges the Government to adopt the scheme 

 of afforestation recommended in the Report and to 

 bring it into operation without delay." 



A doubt was, however, expressed by one or two members as 

 to whether the Resolution was wide enough in its terms to 

 embrace the approval of the proposed Central Forest Authority, 

 and with the view of removing any dubiety on the point it was 

 agreed to call a Special Meeting to deal with the matter. This 

 meeting was held in Edinburgh, on 15th March, and was 

 attended by over 50 members. The following Resolution was 

 then submitted, and was supported by 44 members, only one 

 member supporting the direct negative. 



"That this Meeting of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society, specially convened, hereby approves of the 

 recommendations of the Forestry Sub-Committee of 

 the Reconstruction Committee, and particularly of the 

 recommendation that a Central Forest Authority, 

 equipped with funds and powers, be created for Great 

 Britain and Ireland, and urges the Government to 

 carry these recommendations into effect without delay." 



This Resolution was also forwarded to Ministers and others, 

 as formerly. 



