156 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



15. Official Notifications. 



Board of Agriculture for Scotland. 



The King has been pleased, on the recommendation of the 

 Secretary for Scotland (Lord Pentland), to approve the following 

 appointments to the Board of Agriculture for Scotland in pursu- 

 ance of the Small Landholders (Scotland) Act, igii, namely: — 



Sir Robert Patrick Wright, Agricultural Adviser to the 

 Scotch Education Department, to be a member and Chairman 

 of the Board ; Mr R. B. Greig, Staff Inspector under the Board 

 of Education, and Mr John D. Sutherland, Oban, to be 

 members of the Board. 



Mr John D. Sutherland has been appointed to be Com- 

 missioner for small holdings, and will for the present, under the 

 direction of the Chairman, superintend the forestry work of 

 the Board. 



Forestry Development. 



Advisory Committee. 



The Right Hon. Walter Runciman, ]\LP., President of the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, has appointed a Committee 

 to advise the Board on matters relating to the development of 

 forestry in England and Wales. References will be made to 

 the Committee from time to time as occasion arises. The 

 Committee will be asked in the first instance : — 



1. To consider and advise upon proposals for a forestry survey. 



2. To draw up plans for experiments in silviculture, and to 

 report upon questions relating to the selection and laying out 

 of forestal demonstration areas. 



3. To advise as to the provision required for the instruction 

 of woodmen. 



The Committee is constituted as follows : — 



Sir Stafford Howard, K.C.B. (chairman); Mr F. D. Williams- 

 Drummond ; Sir S. Eardley-Wilmot, K.C.LE. ; The Right Hon. 

 R. C. Munro Ferguson, M.I\; Lieutenant-Colonel D. Prain, 

 C.M.G., C LE., F.R.S. ; Mr E. R. Pratt, President of the Royal 

 English Arboricultural Society ; l^rofessor Sir W. Schlich, 

 K.C.LE., F.R.S. ; Professor Wm. Somerville, D.Sc. ; the Hon. 

 Arthur L. Stanley. Mr R. L. Robinson, of the Board of Agri- 

 culture and Fisheries, will act as secretary. 



