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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Grants from the Development Fund. 



We understand that the Development Commissioners have 

 approved of the purchase of an area in Scotland, to be converted 

 into a Demonstration Forest, as soon as they are satisfied that 

 a suitable tract of land can be obtained ; and the Secretary for 

 Scotland has appointed a Committee : — 



"To report as to the selection of a suitable location for a 

 Demonstration Forest Area in Scotland : the uses, present and 

 prospective, to which such area may be put (including the use 

 that may be made of it by the various forestry teaching centres 

 in Scotland) : the staff and equipment required for successful 

 working : the probable cost : and the most suitable form of 

 management. 



"To report as to any further steps, following upon the 

 acquisition of the said area, which, in the opinion of the 

 Committee, it is desirable should be taken with a view to 

 promoting silviculture in Scotland, due regard being had to the 

 interests of other rural industries." 



Chairman — Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, Bart. Members — 

 The Right Hon. Lord Lovat, C.B., etc.. The Right Hon. R. C. 

 Munro Ferguson, M.P., J. D. Sutherland, Esq., Sir John 

 Fleming, LL.D., Sir Matthew Wallace and R. H. N. Sellar, Esq. 

 Secretary — H. Warre Cornish, Esq., of the Scotch Education 

 Department. 



An application of the University of Edinburgh for grants 

 to develop the higher teaching of forestry which it at present 

 provides is, we understand, now under consideration by the 

 Commissioners, who have, we believe, already recommended 

 to the Treasury a grant of ;;^2ooo, to be spread over five years, 

 for the provision of a Forest Garden in connection with the 

 University and the East of Scotland College of Agriculture. 



The partial attainment of objects for which the Society has 



