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charge of landed estates who desire advice in connection with 

 the management of woodlands under their control, but has 

 decided not to proceed with the scheme in the meantime. 



Depiitatioi to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 



The Resolution passed at last Annual Meeting was duly 

 forwarded to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Deputa- 

 tion then appointed met him at the House of Commons on 

 22nd March last. A full report of the Meeting was taken by 

 an Official Reporter for the Government, but was not made 

 public. A short report, adjusted by the Government Officials 

 and the Deputation, was afterwards handed to the Press. A 

 copy of this report and of that part of the Chancellor's Budget 

 speech relating to forestry will be found at page 200 of 

 Vol. XXII. of the Transactions. As suggested by the 

 Chancellor, a small committee of the Council was appointed to 

 give him any further information he might call for. 



The Development Act. 



Shortly after the Development Bill was introduced into the 

 House of Commons, the Council had under consideration a 

 suggestion that the Society should ask for a grant out of 

 the Development Fund, to enable a complete survey of all 

 unafforested land in Scotland, situated below the 800 feet 

 contour level, being undertaken by competent judges of its 

 capacity for afforestation, and that the Society might carry out 

 this work. It was pointed out that the Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer had accepted the Society's programme as contained 

 in their Resolutions, and had been informed of the appointment 

 of the Committee to give him any further information he might 

 call for, and it was decided that it would be inexpedient at this 

 stage to make a representation through any other Department. 

 The following Resolution was then passed, and sent to the 

 Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer : — 



"The Council of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society 

 supports the Deputation from the Society which met the 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer, and thanks Mr Lloyd George for 

 his reception of the Deputation, and for the excellent outline 

 of silvicultural policy laid down by him in his Budget speech. 

 The Council urges that the Government should, as soon as 

 possible, give practical effect in Scotland to the intentions 

 expressed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his reply to 

 the Society's Deputation and in his Budget speech — {a) By 

 creating a Board of Forestry ; {b) By providing Demonstration 

 Forests and Forest Gardens, and by otherwise assisting the 

 development of University and other Educational enterprise ; 

 and (<:) By carrying out a survey of all areas throughout the 

 country suitable for commercial planting." 



