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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. 



The Society's Resolution also asks for Example Plots or Forest 

 Gardens in connection with the various centres of Forestry 

 instruction and other educational facilities, and further, recom- 

 mends that a Board of Forestry for Scotland, or a Commission 

 under the Board of Agriculture, should be established to foster and 

 promote State and Private Afforestation in the country, with 

 special power to survey and indicate all land suitable for afforesta- 

 tion, and should be provided with sufficient funds to carry on its 

 work efficiently. 



Excursions. 



During the past thrity years, well-organised Excursions, numer- 

 ously 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, during the suminer of 1904 the 

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

 visited, and during the present summer a visit is to be undertaken 

 to the Bavarian Forests. 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 



