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 ; 

 (p) By providing Demonstration Forests and Forest 

 Gardens, and by otherwise assisting the development 

 of University and other Educational enterprise ; and 

 (c) By carrying out, as an essential preliminary to any 

 great scheme of National Afforestation, a Survey of 

 all areas throughout the country suitable for 

 commercial planting." 

 Oh 25th May, it was decided to amend the Resolution by the 

 addition of a request that the Forestry Board should have an 

 office in Scotland where the best areas available for afforestation 

 are situated, and that Scottish forestry should be adequately 

 represented on the Board, The amended Resolution reads as 

 follows : — 



"The Council of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society 

 respectfully 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, which he was good enough to receive on 

 22nd March 1909, and in his Budget speech thereafter, by 

 creating a Board of Forestry, with an adequate representation of 

 Scottish Forestry upon it, and an OtEce 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." 



A small Deputation was also appointed to wait upon the 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Development Com- 

 missioners in support of the Resolution. The President 

 subsequently reported that he had been in communication with 

 the Chancellor on the subject of the Society's Resolution, who 

 appeared to indicate that the expense of creating a Board of 

 Forestry would be considerable, and could be avoided as there 

 were two experts on forestry upon the Development Commission. 

 A special meeting of the Council was subsequently held, when 

 the Representation to the Development Commission, which 

 appears in the January Transactions, was adjusted and forwarded 

 to the Commissioners, with the various particulars regarding the 

 Society required by the Act. The reply received, to the effect 

 that the Board of Agriculture were understood to be preparing 



