Laws. 
The Committee have completed the work of revising the Laws, 
but the proposed revisions have still to be submitted and 
approved of by the Council before they can be submitted to the 
Society. 
Annual Dinner. 
Members are reminded of the Annual Dinner, which is to be 
held in the Royal British Hotel this evening at 6 o’clock, and 
is to be presided over by Mr Fothringham, the President. 
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the Report, said it 
was so full that it did not require many words from him. He 
had received a letter from the Honorary Secretary, Mr Munro 
Ferguson, M.P., the gist of which he might give them. Mr 
Ferguson said that, so far as promoting the objects of the Society 
were concerned—the good and intelligent afforestation of a great 
deal of this country—he did not look upon it as a means of 
employment for all the unemployed, because he thought if the 
present somewhat unthoughtout cry of spending a great deal of 
money upon forestry was taken up, it would probably lead to ill- 
considered expenditure, which would not produce good results, 
and would be discouraging to forestry generally in this country in 
the future. Mr Munro Ferguson was of opinion that it would be 
a good thing for the Society to send a strong representation, both 
to the Woods and Forests Department and to the Treasury, 
urging that some steps should be taken towards acquiring 
demonstration areas in this country as soon as possible. Pro- 
ceeding, the Chairman said that the visit to the Talla had been 
a very interesting one. ‘Those of the Council who were present 
formed the opinion that the area was well suited for forestry, 
and he hoped the Edinburgh and District Water Trust would 
use, at any rate, a part of the land for afforestation purposes. If 
that were done, it would make a good demonstration area within 
a comparatively easy distance of Edinburgh. The advantages 
of afforestation within catchment areas was one of the outstand- 
ing features of the United States Forest Congress Report, which 
he considered well worthy of the attention of the members of the 
Edinburgh and District Water Trust. Canada was following on 
the same lines. They might reasonably hope that their efforts 
were beginning to bear fruit when others besides themselves 
