training-ground attached to it, which would be available, not only 

 for purposes of instruction but also as a Station for Research and 

 Experiment, and as a Model Forest, by which Landowners and 

 Foresters throughout the country might benefit. The Society has 

 accordingly drawn up a Scheme for the Establishment of a State 

 Model or Demonstration Forest for Scotland which might serve 

 the above-named objects. Copies of this Scheme were laid 

 before the Departmental Committee on British Forestry, and in 

 their Report the Committee recommended the establishment of 

 a Demonstration Area and the provision of other educational 

 facilities in Scotland. 



The Government has recently acquired the Estate of Inverliever 

 in Argyllshire; and while this cannot be looked on as a 

 Demonstration Forest, it is hoped that it may prove to be the 

 first step in a scheme of afforestation by the State of unwooded 

 lands in Scotland. Meantime Mr Munro Ferguson, M.P., for a 

 part of whose woods at Raith a Working-Plan has been prepared, 

 and is now in operation, has very kindly agreed to allow Students to 

 visit them. 



In view of the passing of the Development Acts of 1909 and 

 1 910, the Council passed a Resolution urging that the Govern- 

 ment should, as soon as possible, create a Board of Forestry, 

 with an adequate representation of Scottish Forestry upon it, and 

 an Office in Scotland, where the largest areas of land suitable for 

 Afforestation are situated, which would provide Demonstration 

 Forests and Forest Gardens, and otherwise assist the development 

 of University and other Educational enterprise, and would carry 

 out, as an essential preliminary to any great scheme of National 

 Afforestation, a Survey of all areas throughout the country suitable 

 for commercial planting. The Society's policy for the development 

 of Forestry in Scotland has also been fully laid before the Develop- 

 ment Commission. 



Excursions. 



Since 1878 well-organised Excursions, numerously attended 

 by Members of the Society, have been made annually to various 

 parts of Scotland, England, Ireland, and the Continent. In 

 1895 a Tour extending over twelve days was made through the 

 Forests of Northern Germany, in 1902 a Tour extending over 

 seventeen days was made in Sweden, during the summer of 1904 the 

 Forest School at Nancy and Forests in the north of France were 

 visited, and during the past summer a visit was undertaken 

 to the Bavarian Forests. These Excursions enable Members whose 

 occupations necessarily confine them chiefly to a single locality to 

 study the conditions and methods prevailing elsewhere; and the 

 Council propose to extend the Tours during the next few years to 

 other parts of the Continent. They venture to express the hope 

 that Landowners may be induced to afford facilities to their 

 Foresters for participation in these Tours, the instructive nature of 

 which renders them well worth the moderate expenditure of time 

 and money that they involve. 



