CONTENTS. 



The Society does not hold itself responsible for the statements 

 or views expressed by the authors of papers. 



1. The Duty of the State as regards Afforestation. By a 



Correspondent, ....... i 



2. Afforestation and Local Taxation. By Sir Kenneth Mac- 



kenzie, Bart., ....... 3 



3. The Sitka Spruce as a Tree for Hill Planting and General 



Afforestation (with Plate). By John D. Crozier, . 7 



4. The Financial Aspect of Forestry. By Percival Trentham 



Maw, ........ 17 



5. Afforestation of Catchment Areas, . .22 



6. Vegetable Remains from the Site of the Roman Military 



Station at Newstead, Melrose, . . . .31 



7. Underplanted Larch Plantations at Novar. By William 



Mackenzie, ....... 35 



8. Continental Notes— Germany (with Figures). By B. Ribben- 



trop, CLE , . . . . . . 38 



9. The Timber Trade Conference. By Geo. U. Macdonald, . 51 



10. Continental Notes— France. By A. G Hobart- Hampden, 



late Indian Forest Service, • • • • • 57 



11. The Forest Nursery Station, Indian Head, Saskatchewan. 



By Mr Kay, Assistant Nurseryman, . .67 



12. Visit to the Forests of Bavaria, 1909. By Sir Andrew N. 



Agnew, Bart., ....... 72 



13. The Thirty-second Annual Excursion, August 1909 (with Plates), 80 



14. The Forestry Exhibition held in the Highland and Agri- 



cultural Society's Showyard at Stirling, lOi 



Notes and Queries : — The Beech Tree in Scotland — Effects 

 of Frost on Plants of Larix europcea and L. leptolepis 

 Compared— Suggested use of Abies nobilis for Planting up 

 Blanks in Old and in Young Woods — Planting with the 

 Mattock — Forest Fires in Canada — Japanese Oak — Sir 

 William Schlich, K.C.I.E., F.R.S.— The Japanese Larch 

 versus the European Larch— Afforestation of the Inverliever 

 Estate — Value of Work done by the " Unemployed " — The 

 Pulp Industry of Canada — The Timber Trade of Eastern 

 Siberia— Pitting versus Notching (with Plates) — Lectures 

 at Murthly— Death of a Nancy Professor— The Forests 

 of the British East Africa Protectorate— The Forests of 

 the Central Vosges Mountains, .... 103 



