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ship, was referred to by Mr E. H. Finlayson in his very able 

 report of the forestry work of the Dominion of Canada. In the 

 United Kingdom a worthy part has been played in the same 

 direction by the forestry societies, whose publications, however, 

 do not reach a wider public than their own membership. 



Resolution No. 6 recommended to Governments of the Empire 

 the encouragement of tree planting by the distribution of plants 

 gratuitously or at cost price. Delegates from South Africa and 

 Australia had spoken cogently of the great advantages that had 

 accrued from the introduction of exotic species which flourish 

 as well in their land of adoption as in their native habitat. We, 

 in Great Britain, would be poor indeed had we been dependent 

 for our softwood on our one native commercially valuable 

 conifer, the Scots pine. 



Resolution No. 7 dealt with the vexed question of Terminology, 

 and proposed that the "standardisation of forest terminology" 

 and the "correct identification of timbers and standardisation 

 of their trade names " be dealt with by the Forestry Bureau for 

 the Empire which resolution No. 10 proposes shall be set up. 

 Users of wood know of the great confusion which arises from 

 the same trade name being applied to timbers — having perhaps 

 some superficial resemblance, but different not only in species, 

 but often in genus, and sometimes originating in countries 

 where the genus denoted does not occur. The same confusion 

 is, perhaps, even worse confounded in the United States, and 

 should the Bureau arrive at agreement among all English- 

 speaking peoples as to their timber nomenclature, a lasting 

 benefit would result. 



The eighth Resolution commended to the early consideration 

 of the respective Governments the scheme for research work 

 adopted by the Committee which had been appointed ad hoc. 

 The scheme is an elaborate and carefully considered treatise 

 bringing out many aspects of the paramount importance of this 

 work, and should be read in its entirety. It urged that the 

 fundamental responsibility lay with Governments for the proper 

 organisation and carrying out of scientific inquiry into the 

 especial forestry problems which concern them ; that efficient 

 research work can only be performed by highly-trained men 

 qualified by a taste for the work and "unhampered by routine 

 or administrative duties," and that their salary and status should 

 be such as to attract the right type of men. The objects of 



