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"The Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, in Annual 

 Meeting assembled, desires to put on record its appreciation 

 of, and warmest thanks for, the great services to Forestry 

 rendered by the following in connection with the passing 

 of the Forestry Act, 19 19, viz.:— 



1. The Right Hon. F. D. Acland, M.P., Chairman of the 



Sub-Committee on Forestry of the Reconstruction 

 Committee, Chairman of the Interim Forest Authority, 

 and Member of the Forestry Commission. 



2. The Right Hon. Lord Lovat, K.T., D.S.O., etc , Member 



of the Sub-Committee on Forestry of the Reconstruction 

 Committee, Director of Forestry with the Forces in 

 France, Member of the Interim Forest Authority, and 

 first Chairman of the Forestry Commission. 



3. Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, Bart., Hon. Secretary and 



Ex-President of the Society, Assistant Controller 

 (Scotland), Timber Supply Department, Member of 

 the Sub-Committee on Forestry of the Reconstruction 

 Committee, and Representative of Scotland on the 

 Forestry Commission. 



4. Colonel W. Steuart Fothringham of Murthly, etc., 



Ex-President of the Society, Assistant to Assistant 

 Controller (Scotland), Timber Supply Department, 

 Member of the Interim Forest Authority, and Repre- 

 sentative of Scotland on the Forestry Commission. 



5. Mr John Sutherland, C.B.E., formerly Member of the 



Board of Agriculture for Scotland, having charge of 

 the Forestry Department of the Board, Director of the 

 Home Timber Committee, Assistant Director of Forestry 

 with the Forces in France, Member of the Sub-Committee 

 on Forestry of the Reconstruction Committee, and Assist- 

 ant Commissioner for Scotland under the Forestry Act." 



The Society further desires, on the recommendation of the 

 Council, to confer upon Mr Acland the Honorary Membership 

 of the Society, in recognition of his successful discharge of the 

 very onerous duties which devolved upon him in connection 

 with the promotion of the Forestry Bill and its passage 

 through Parliament.'' 

 The Resolution was unanimously adopted. 



