FORESTRY EXHIBITION AT ABERDEEN. 9 I 



After a Council Meeting had been held in the Shovvyard, 

 Mr A. T. Gillanders, woods manager to the Duke of 

 Northumberland, gave a lecture on the " Educational and 

 Economical Value of Forestry Exhibitions." 



Mr Gillanders, having been introduced by the Chairman, 

 expressed pleasure at having been called upon to give an 

 address to the Aberdeen Branch of the Society in the district 

 where he had been born, and within the favoured twelve miles' 

 limit of which he had received his training. He was to deal 

 with "The Economic and Educational Value of Forestry 

 Exhibitions," and it was important to notice that all forestry 

 exhibitions were primarily intended for educational purposes. 

 He held that agricultural shows were the best places for 

 giving such exhibitions, because agriculture was closely 

 associated with forestry, and might be compared, to a certain 

 extent, with arboriculture, and at agricultural shows they met 

 all classes of people who ought to be specially interested in 

 forestry. It must be particularly gratifying to foresters to 

 see that the landlords of the district of Aberdeen had taken 

 such a deep interest in the exhibition. Mr Gillanders went 

 on to say that as agricultural shows improved the education 

 of the farmer, so forestry exhibitions ought also to improve 

 his education, although there was greater difficulty in getting 

 up those exhibitions, because of the migratory character of the 

 shows, but on that account they were the more valuable. He 

 advocated that all exhibits should be of a practical nature, so 

 as to bring out information regarding the diiferent problems 

 suggested by forestry, namely, trees treated commercially, 

 trees treated for shelter, trees treated for landscape effect, 

 and so on. He maintained that much could be done for 

 forestry by laying out experimental plots on large areas. He 

 said he did not presume to dictate to the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society, but he thought it would be very satis- 

 factory if that society could get a shed after the manner of 

 the Royal Agricultural Society, and associate in it the college 

 exhibits, the nature study exhibits, and the forestry exhibits, 

 either under one roof or in buildings adjacent to one another. 

 Then they would bring together a large class of persons who 

 were especially interested in such studies. Arising from the 

 study of such exhibits, they would have to deal with various 

 problems which scientific men were now considering, as, for 



