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has apparently not been before the Council. The Universities 

 give a degree in forestry, and the degree ought to be the highest 

 stamp of education in forestry in the United Kingdom. The 

 question arises whether a diploma is really necessary in addition 

 to a University degree. The Universities would, I am sure, be 

 only too pleased to strengthen the position of that degree, if 

 it is possibly not good enough, but to start a diploma in 

 competition with the University degree, as was done by the 

 Agricultural societies some years ago, is, to my mind, a step in 

 the wrong direction. I am quite certain a great deal of injury 

 has been done to the cause of agricultural education, by the so- 

 called Agricultural diploma, as a means of gaining what was 

 regarded as a University distinction. I do not know whether 

 the case is beyond remedy, but I am quite sure that similar 

 diplomas in competition with the University degrees must do 

 harm rather than good to forestry. 



Mr Richardson. — "There is another matter in connection 

 with the Transactions. I have not seen the last part, which is 

 not yet issued, but in the July part most of the articles are 

 unsigned articles. Now, there is a notice at the top of the 

 table of contents, which appears in every part, that the Society 

 does not hold itself responsible for statements of views expressed 

 by authors of papers. What is the position in regard to those 

 articles which are not signed? The longest article is a very 

 pungent review of a book to which eleven pages are devoted, 

 but the reviewer's name does not appear. I remember once 

 sending a review of a book at the request of the Honorary 

 Secretary, and it was thrown back to me because it was too 

 severe, though my name was attached to it. Here is a far 

 more pungent review, and the sum and substance of it is that 

 the book is not worth anything. If it is not, surely two or three 

 lines were sufficient, instead of spending the funds of the Society 

 on a thing which very few people have much interest in. But 

 who is responsible for it? We are all made responsible for 

 these things if they are unsigned, and the bulk of the articles in 

 this part are unsigned. I think if an article of that sort is put 

 in the writer should put his name to it." 



The President, in formally moving the adoption of the report, 

 said that the points raised would be taken up by the Council 

 afterwards. In regard to the question raised by Professor 

 Wallace, his own view, and he believed the view of the Council 



