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List No. 7 was made up of various samples showing timber 

 in the converted and unconverted state. 



As already stated, samples were also staged in the pavilion 

 showing some of the ornamental features of home-grown woods, 

 such as oak, ash, elm and sycamore burr, walnut, plane and 

 oak curl, veneers, etc. 



It is unnecessary to detail the full list of samples displayed, 

 nor was it possible to bring together in this exhibition a com- 

 plete series of specimens to show all the uses to which home- 

 grown timber has been and can be put. 



In addition to the above there was a fine set of photographs, 

 sent by Colonel Sutherland, which showed Army timber opera- 

 tions in France which were carried out under the direction of 

 Brigadier-General Lord Lovat. These were taken in the Basse 

 Foret d'Eu, the Foret d'Eaury, the Foret de Lyons, the Haute 

 Foret d'Eu, and the Brotonne Forest. The photographic section 

 proper is discussed in the article which follows. 



A large map was also on view which showed the locations of 

 the various timber corps — American, Australian, Canadian and 

 Newfoundland — which were operating in Scotland during the 

 war. 



The pavilion in which the collection was housed was formed 

 from some of the huts which had been used in the forest by the 

 Canadian Forestry Corps. 



The exhibition entirely fulfilled its function, in that it showed 

 that the kind and quality of timber principally required by our 

 great wood-consuming industries can be grown in this country. 



The Society's pavilion was crowded by visitors during the 

 four days of the show, and the numerous questions asked by 

 visitors and the keen interest aroused by the various exhibits 

 were an unmistakable sign that the importance of forestry, and 

 all it means, to the country in times of peace and war, is now 

 taking a firmer hold on the public mind. X. 



Photographic Section. 



In this section nineteen 53-inch by 38-inch and forty- 

 seven 24 - inch by 18 - inch enlargements were exhibited. 

 They were selected from a large set which has been taken 

 in conjunction with the Forest Statistical Survey of Scotland. 

 Forestry owes one more debt to Sir John Stirling-Maxwell 

 for having initiated and carried through, at his own expense, 



