6 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



an advance from the fund, with a scheme framed after examina- 

 tion of the forestry requirements of Great Britain as a whole : 

 and they have therefore forwarded a copy of the Society's 

 letter to the Board for their consideration in preparing their 

 scheme. 



3. The Society are no doubt aware that under the Development 

 and Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909, the Commissioners 

 can only take into consideration schemes and applications for 

 advances from the Development Fund, received from bodies 

 other than Government Departments, after such applications and 

 schemes have been referred to and reported on by the Govern- 

 ment Departments concerned. 

 I am. Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 



H. E. Dale, 

 The Secretary, Secretary. 



Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society. 



[The undermentioned members of the Development Commission 

 form a committee to confer, if necessary, with the Government 

 Departments and unofficial associations interested, and to 

 report on questions of forestry policy, and on schemes for that 

 purpose which have been, and are about to be, submitted to 

 the Commissioners from England, Scotland, and Ireland : — Mr 

 Eardley Wilmot (chairman), Mr Jones- Davies, Mr Ennis and 

 Mr Haldane. — Hon. Ed.] 



2. The Vegetation of Woodlands. 



By Dr W. G. Smith. 



During the past ten years several investigations on the 

 vegetation of Britain have been in progress, and a consider- 

 able amount of information on woodlands and other forms of 

 vegetation has been brought together. The papers and 

 botanical maps of the late Robert Smith, published in 1900, 

 are generally admitted to have opened a new era in the study 

 of British vegetation, and led ultimately to the formation of the 

 Central Committee for the Study and Survey of British Vegeta- 

 tion, which consists of active workers most of whom have 

 published memoirs and vegetation maps. Although mainly 

 botanical, this type of work is intimately related to economic 



