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Mr Langhammer's Visit. 



Mr Langhammer, a Norwegian gentleman, who came to 

 Scotland in 1908 in order to study the raising of Scots pine 

 woods, has published a report of his visit. He gratefully 

 acknowledges the assistance afforded to him by the Secretary 

 of the Society in arranging his tour through the woods of Scone, 

 Murthly, Dunkeld, Grantown, Beauly, Novar, and Balmoral ; 

 and he records his thanks to the owners and managers of those 

 estates. 



Seeds of North American Conifers. 



Cameron of Lochiel permits us to intimate that Mr Angus 

 Cameron, Diboll, Texas, U.S.A., has, through him, most 

 generously offered to send small packets of the seeds of Thuya 

 ^/^<?«/^^, the Red cedar of the North Pacific Coast, Chamcecyparis 

 Lawso7iiana, the White cedar of Southern Oregon, and other North 

 American conifers, to any Scottish proprietor who may apply 

 to him for them. He desires to do all in his power to assist in 

 the re-timbering of the Scottish mountains and glens, knowing 

 full well the benefit this would confer on coming generations of 

 his countrymen. 



In regard to the two above-mentioned species, Mr Cameron 

 says that they produce timber which equals that of larch in 

 durability, while it is more easily worked, and does not warp 

 during seasoning. He thinks they will prove to be rapid 

 growers anywhere in Scotland, but especially on the West coast, 

 where, however, they will need shelter from the western gales. 

 Of the seeds sent to Lochiel, those of the Red cedar were 

 collected for Mr Cameron in the Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C., 

 where the trees attain a diameter of 14 feet,i and those of the 

 White cedar were collected on the Port Oxford river, Oregon, 

 where he has seen trees of 16 feet in diameter. 



The Development and Road Improvement 

 Funds Act, 1909. 



Mr W. L. Haldane, a member of the Society's Council, and 

 Mr Eardley-Wilmot, CLE., formerly Inspector General of Forests 

 in India, have been appointed two of the Commissioners for the 



^ I have measured a Red cedar tfiere whicli had a diameter of 18 feet. — F. B. 



