delivered without interruption since 1889. It is recognised, how- 

 ever, that a School of Forestry is incomplete without a practical 

 training-ground attached to it, which would be available, not only 

 for purposes of instruction but also as a Station for Research and 

 Experiment, and as a Model Forest, by which Landowners and 

 Foresters throughout the country might benefit. The Society has 

 accordingly drawn up a Scheme for the Establishment of a State 

 Model or Demonstration Forest for Scotland which might serve the 

 above-named objects. Copies of this Scheme were laid before the 

 Departmental Committee on British Forestry, and in their 

 Report the Committee have recommended the establishment of 

 a Demonstration Area and the provision of other educational 

 facilities in Scotland. 



The Government has recently acquired the Estate of Inverliever 

 in Argyllshire ; and this, it is hoped, may prove to be the first step 

 in a scheme of afforestation by the State of unwooded lands in 

 Scotland. The Society has now submitted to the Government a 

 Resolution urging the further provision of a more accessibly situated 

 tract carrying a fair proportion of growing woods, which may fulfil 

 the objects for which a State Demonstration Forest has so long 

 been needed. 



Meantime Mr Munro Ferguson, M.P., for a part of whose 

 woods at Raith a Working-Plan has been prepared, and is now in 

 operation, has very kindly agreed to allow Students to visit them. 



Excursions. 



During the past twenty-nine years, well-organised Excursions, 

 numerously attended by Members of the Society, have been made 

 annually to various parts of Scotland, England, and Ireland. In 

 1895, a Tour extending over twelve days was made through the 

 Forests of Northern Germany, in 1902 a Tour extending over 

 seventeen days was made in Sweden, and during the summer of 1904 

 the Forest School at Nancy and Forests in the north of France were 

 visited. These Excursions enable Members whose occupations 

 necessarily confine them chiefly to a single locality to study the 

 conditions and methods prevailing elsewhere; and the Council 

 propose to extend the Tours during the next few years to other 

 parts of the Continent. They venture to express the hope that 

 Landowners may be induced to afford facilities to their Foresters 

 for participation in these Tours, the instructive nature of which 

 renders them well worth the moderate expenditure of time and 

 money that they involve. 



Exhibitions. 



A Forestry Exhibition is annually organised in connection with 

 the Highland and Agricultural Society's Show, in which are exhibited 

 specimens illustrating the rate of growth of trees, different kinds of 

 wood, pit-wood and railway timber, insect pests and samples of the 

 damage done by them, tools and implements, manufactured articles 

 peculiar to the district where the Exhibition is held, and other 

 objects of interest relating to Forestry. Prizes and Medals are also 

 offered for Special Exhibits. 



