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place, we will be able to add other samples of our home 

 commercial timber." 



Mr A. D. Richardson. — "With regard to the proposal to 

 have the exhibit housed permanently, some time ago this 

 Society made representations to the Royal Scottish Museum 

 Authorities to have an exhibit of British Columbian timber 

 housed in the Museum, but the application was refused on the 

 ground that they had no room for it. A very large addition 

 has, however, been made recently to the Museum, and I think 

 that is the place where this very excellent exhibit should be 

 housed, and become the nucleus of a great national timber 

 collection. I do not agree at all with the Council's idea ot 

 applying to the Corporation for housing accommodation for this 

 exhibit. It is far more than a municipal thing. It is a national 

 thing, and the proper place for it is in a national institution, 

 and the proper institution is the Royal Scottish Museum, and I 

 think application should again be made to the Museum Authori- 

 ties to have this exhibit housed there." 



Mr Allan. — "The Council have very carefully considered the 

 matter, and this arrangement is not supposed to be permanent. 

 It is only a stop-gap. We hope that there will be other exhibits 

 of an educational kind, which, in the near future, will require to 

 be housed in some national building. We hope that will come. 

 We also considered the question of the British Columbian 

 exhibit, but Mr Richardson knows the difficulty we have always 

 been up against in connection with the Museum." 



Roads of Remembrance. 



Colonel Sutherland. — "The motion which has been allotted 

 to me will, I hope, not take many words to ensure your support. 

 A movement has taken life in America and in France in which, 

 I think, we ought to participate in this country. The movement 

 aims at the beautifying of the country and the towns in 

 memory of the men who have suffered and fallen in the Great 

 War, now fortunately ended. An Association has been formed 

 in England, with which, I think, we ought to co-operate in 

 Scotland, and it is hoped by the Association in England that a 

 strong Executive will be created in Scotland to further the 

 object. It is said that a large number of new roads are to be 

 made in this country, and many new schemes for the promotion of 

 housing are supposed also to be on the tapis, and in the making 



