a scheme dealing with the forestry requirements of Great Britain 

 as a whole, was also printed in the Transactions. Later, the 

 President and the Honorary Secretary had a meeting with 

 the President of the Board of Agriculture on the subject, but 

 the matter was afterwards taken up by the Scottish Office 

 and the Scotch Education Department with whom negotiations 

 have been proceeding. The Council has also had an oppor- 

 tunity of sending witnesses to appear before the Development 

 Commissioners, in support of the Representation. The following 

 reply has since been received from the Development Commission. 



Development Commission, 

 i2th January 191 1, 



Sir, — I am directed by the Development Commissioners to 

 advert to your communication forwarding a letter, dated loth 

 September 19 10, addressed to them on behalf of the Council 

 of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society by the President, 

 Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, with reference to the expenditure of 

 grants from the Development Fund on forestry in Scotland. 



2. The Commissioners caused copies of the President's letter 

 to be transmitted to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 and to the Scotch Education Department, and they referred 

 it for consideration to their Forestry Committee. They have 

 learnt with pleasure that the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society accepted the invitation of the Forestry Committee to 

 give evidence before them, and that Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, 

 the Right Hon. R. C. Munro Ferguson, M.P., Lord Lovat, 

 Captain Stirling, and Mr R. Galloway attended the meeting 

 of the Committee on the 3rd January 191 1, as witnesses on 

 behalf of the Society. 



3. The Commissioners have considered the report on the 

 Society's proposals, presented to them by the Forestry Committee, 

 and have given special attention to the application for a grant 

 towards the cost of carrying out a national Survey throughout 

 Scotland, in order to ascertain areas suitable to afforest. 



4. While favourably impressed with the Survey carried out 

 for the Society by Lord Lovat in Inverness-shire, which they 

 regard as valuable pioneer work, the Commissioners cannot help 

 thinking that a national Survey would soon become out-of-date. 

 They believe, however, that local Surveys similar to that carried 

 out in Inverness-shire, might usefully be undertaken, as occasion 

 arises, by the staff and students at a central Demonstration Area 

 of the kind the Society desires to see established. 



5. The Commissioners have concurred in proposals put forward 

 by the Scotch Education Department, for the appointment of a 

 Committee in Scotland to consider preliminary questions con- 

 nected with the provision of a Demonstration Area. In the event 

 of such an area being established in Scotland, the Commissioners 



