It was agreed to continue the distribution of the Commission's 

 leaflets along with the Transactions^ on condition that any 

 extra postage incurred would be refunded. 



12. Empire Forestry Associatiofi and International Institute 

 of Agriculture. 



These Institutions intimated to the Council that they would 

 be prepared to give an abatement from the price of their 

 publications to the Society's members if a notice to that effect 

 was inserted free of charge in the Transactions, and this was 

 agreed to. 



13. Afforestation and the Report of the Committee oft 

 National Expenditure. 



Early in the year the Council had this Report under con- 

 sideration, and unanimously adopted the following Resolution 

 which was sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the 

 Forestry Commission : — 



"The Council of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society 

 while reserving its judgment upon the reasons given 

 by the Committee on National Expenditure for their 

 recommendations in regard to afforestation, decided, 

 in view of the urgency of the matter, to record its 

 sense of the invaluable work done by the Forestry 

 Commission, and its concern at the prospect of a 

 suspension of its activities, believing them to be 

 essential to the production of home-grown timber and 

 the interests of the rural population. The Council 

 further recorded its emphatic protest against any 

 function of the Forestry Commission being re-trans- 

 ferred to the Scottish Board of Agriculture and 

 expressed its opinion that the Commission should be 

 continued on its present lines, though the grants 

 must admittedly be reduced in the meantime." 



A Resolution on the same subject was also received from the 

 Aberdeen Branch and duly forwarded. 



Some conversation took place in the Council, at Dumfries, on 

 the urgent need for re-afforestation of denuded areas following 

 upon a report of a discussion of that subject at Pitlochry during 

 the Excursion, and the draft Resolution then suggested was 

 submitted and approved. It was decided to submit the draft 

 with an explanation of its origin to the General Meeting which 

 followed. That meeting amended the Resolution and remitted 

 it back to the Council to adjust and forward to the Government 

 and to all the Scottish M.P.'s 



