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present, that it will give a reasonable return to those who carry 

 it out. Planting has been begun. A few trees have been put 

 in. It has as yet been a bad planting season in certain places, 

 but we have been able to make a start. The same applies to 

 England, and by a curious coincidence the first trees were 

 Dlanted in the South of England — Devonshire — on the same day 

 as in the North of Scotland— Aberdeenshire — so both countries 

 started exactly level. We can only hope the Forestry Com- 

 mission will be able to produce some results. If what we have 

 done in two and a half months may be taken as a criterion, I 

 hope we will be able to produce some satisfactory results before 

 the period of our office expires." 



The Chairman. — " Might I ask whether the figures you 

 gave — 16,000 acres and 40,000,000 seedlings— apply to Scotland 

 or the United Kingdom ? " 



Colonel Fothringham. — " To Scotland only." 



The Chairman. — " We are very much obliged to Colonel 

 Fothringham." 



This concluded the business. 



15. Report of Annual Excursion. 



Six years have passed since the Society held its last annual 

 excursion in 1914. On that occasion the meeting was of an 

 international character, in celebration of the Society's diamond 

 jubilee year. Much has happened in the forestry world during 

 the years that have elapsed since then. Planting has been 

 more or less at a standstill, while many of our finest mature and 

 middle-aged woods have fallen to the axe and saw to provide 

 material of vital necessity to the nation in her hour of need. 

 In the present year the resumption of the excursions has 

 coincided with the holding of a conference in this country, 

 among imperial forestry delegates from all parts of the British 

 Empire. It cannot be too often repeated and emphasised that 

 the concensus of opinion among all foresters, whether home, 

 imperial, or foreign, is that this country is eminently suited for 

 the development of forests on an economic basis. 



The selection of the district in which the excursion took place 

 was a happy choice, and the arrangements, made by Mr 

 Galloway, the secretary, and Mr Young of the Forestry 



