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Society, and also, as you know, very energetic members. The 

 work they have done was only what we would expect they 

 would do, and far the best thanks they can get is the knowledge 

 that their efforts have reached a successful termination. That, 

 I make certain, would be all they want, but we thought it would 

 be a graceful act on the part of this Society if we were formally 

 to move, as I now move, this resolution, although it is perfectly 

 well known to them what our feelings are as regards the work 

 they have done. Mr Sutherland, particularly, we all know has 

 done a great deal for forestry in the past, and I know I can 

 speak for myself that anyone who had dealings with him at the 

 Board of Agriculture knows that his extreme courtesy and 

 fairmindedness made matters easier than they might have been 

 otherwise. I do not think I can say too much, on behalf of the 

 Society, as regards his services to forestry and in other ways for 

 the country. It is suggested that Mr Acland be made an 

 Honorary Member of this Society, and we have reason to know 

 that if this proposal is sanctioned he would very much appreciate 

 the honour. It is the best compliment we can pay him, and 

 I am sure his colleagues on the Commission, and those who 

 belong to the Society, would agree that it is probably the most 

 appropriate way to recognise his services. Therefore, I beg to 

 move the resolution that the best thanks of the Society be given 

 to the gentlemen named, both for what they have done to 

 further the views of the Society, and still more for what we think 

 they are going to do for the good of the nation in general and 

 Scotland in particular." 



Mr Whitton seconded, and the motion was carried 

 unanimously. 



Colonel Steuart Fothringham of Murthly, member of the 

 Forestry Commission, then addressed the meeting. He said : — 

 " Last year when the Interim Forestry Authority was in exist- 

 ence, you were good enough to listen to a few words I had to 

 say then, and I have been asked to speak again this year on 

 behalf of this Forestry Commission. First and foremost, in my 

 own name and in the name of the various gentlemen mentioned 

 in the resolution, I have to thank you very much for the kind 

 expression of your feelings and for the resolution you have just 

 passed. It has been part of the business of the Forestry 

 Commission to keep in touch with the arboricultural societies 

 in England, Scotland and Ireland, and I think it is distinctly an 



