CONTENTS. 



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i. Report of the General Meeting held in the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society's Show, The Meadows, Edinburgh, 

 on ioth July 1919 ...... 1 



2. The Forestry Act, 1919 . . . . . .13 



3. Forestry Exhibition in the Showyard of the Highland and 



Agricultural Society, held at Edinburgh, 8th to nth July 



1919 . ...... . . . .24 



4. Forestry Considered as a Key Industry (with Plate). By 



James Fraser . . . . . . .31 



5. Conference on the subject of the Grading, Seasoning, and 



Utilisation of Home- Grown Timber, held in the Christian 

 Institute, Bothwell Street, Glasgow, on Wednesday, 

 6th August, at 2 p.m. . . . . -35 



6. Continental Notes — France. By A. G. Hobart- Hampden 53 



7. Coniferous Forest Trees in Great Britain. By H. M. 



Steven, B.Sc. . . . . . . .61 



8. A Note on the Financial Results of Pine and Beech Forests 



in Normandy. By A. D. Hopkinson . . .82 



9. Variation in the Scots Pine (Pinus si/uestn's, L.). By J. M. 



Murray, B.Sc. ....... 87 



10. Abstract View of Trees Planted by the Right Honbl. Fras. 



ioth Earl of Moray, from 1767 to 1810 . . .91 



11. Aberdeen University Forestry Society . . -93 



12. Reports of the Swedish Forestry Research Institute. Nos. 



13, 14, 1916-1917. By J. M. Murray . . -97 



13. Species of Pityogenes of Interest in Scottish Woodlands 



(with Plates). By James Fraser, B.Sc. . . .101 



Notes and Queries : — The Forestry Commissioners — Timber 

 Measurement: A Suggestion — Observation on Timber 

 Measurement Suggestion — The Highland and Agri- 

 cultural Society and Home Timber — The Pine Beetle 

 {Myelophilus piniperda) — The Forests of British Columbia — 

 — Forestry Propaganda in Western Canada — State 

 Forestry in New Zealand ..... 107 



