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 

 accordingly drew 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 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 while this cannot be looked on as a Demonstra- 

 tion Forest, it is hoped that it may prove to be the first step in 

 a scheme of afforestation by the State of unwooded lands in 

 Scotland. 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. 



After the Development Act came into operation, the Council 

 passed a Resolution urging that the Government should, as soon 

 as possible, create a Board of Forestry, with an adequate representa- 

 tion of Scottish Forestry upon it, and an Office in Scotland, where 

 the largest areas of land suitable for Afforestation are situated, 

 which would provide Demonstration Forests and Forest Gardens, 

 and otherwise assist the development of University and other 

 Educational enterprise, and would carry out, as an essential pre- 

 liminary to any great scheme of National Afforestation, a Survey of 

 all areas throughout the country suitable for commercial planting. 

 The Society's policy for the development of Forestry in Scotland 

 has since been fully laid before the Development Commission. As 

 a result of these representations, the Secretary for Scotland has 

 appointed a Committee to report regarding the acquisition and uses 

 of a Demonstration Forest Area, and any further steps it is desirable 

 to take in order to promote Silviculture in Scotland. The Society 

 has also published a valuable Report on Afforestation — including 

 a Survey of Glen Mor — prepared for it by Lord Lovat and Captain 

 Stirling, which, it is hoped, may form the basis of the Forest Survey, 

 by the Government, advocated by the Society. 



The Secretary for Scotland has now promised a Department of 

 Forestry working under the Board of Agriculture for Scotland. 



Excursions. 



Since 1878 well-organised Excursions, numerously attended 

 by Members of the Society, have been made annually to various 

 parts of Scotland, England, Ireland, and the Continent. 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 summer of 1904 the 

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

 visited, and in 1909 a visit was undertaken to the Bavarian Forests. 

 These Excursions enable Members whose occupations necessarily 

 confine them chiefly to a single locality to study the conditions and 



