lOO TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



servation would for the most part be the work of State Depart- 

 ments, but a body like this Association could do the work which 

 no State Department could do in the way of aggressive pro- 

 paganda. It was only by a policy of that kind, covering the 

 whole area of the Empire, that they could hope to get forestry 

 looked at from every point of view. This Association could do 

 much publicity work, and it could put the information derived 

 from the research and experimental work of local forestry bodies 

 into language easily understood, and into a form which could be 

 readily grasped by those interested in the subject. One of the 

 most important works of the Association would be the linking 

 up of all the forestry and arboricultural associations throughout 

 the Empire. On the utilisation side there was an even wider 

 field for this Association. Utilisation covered transport, logging, 

 merchandising, and the final commercial transactions. The 

 Association's Imperial Forestry Bureau would act as a clearing- 

 house for information as to products and tests. They could 

 link up commercial information for the benefit of the producer, 

 and they could do that infinitely better than any Government 

 Department could. The field of action was extremely wide. 

 To see the work through funds must be provided, and he urged 

 the need of financial support. 

 The resolution was adopted. 



