International Forest Congress. 



The International Forest Congress is to be held in Paris from 

 the 1 6th to 20th June, and the Council is arranging for a 

 representative to be present who will contribute a report of 

 the proceedings for the Transactions. 



Promised Department of Forestry, 



At last Annual Meeting it was mentioned that Lord Pentland^ 

 the then Secretary for Scotland, had promised to establish a 

 Department of Forestry which would be an integral part of the 

 administration of the new Board of Agriculture for Scotland. 

 Mr Mackinnon Wood, who succeeded Lord Pentland as 

 Secretary for Scotland, was reminded by the Council of this 

 promise and of the negotiations which had taken place with 

 his predecessor on the subject. Meantime the report of the 

 Departmental Committee on Scottish Forestry was laid before 

 the Council, and was considered along with the reply received 

 from the Secretary for Scotland, to the effect that the question 

 of the administration of Forestry matters in Scotland was 

 receivins: his attention in consultation with the Board of 

 Agriculture for Scotland, and that, as publicly announced, 

 Mr Sutherland, Commissioner for Small-holdings, would mean- 

 time, under the direction of the Chairman, superintend the 

 Forestry work of the Board. An interview with the Board 

 to discuss these subjects having been granted, the meeting was 

 held on loth June. A short report of this meeting was 

 printed in the Transactions of July last, page 202, but the 

 Council was subsequently informed that the publication of 

 the detailed report of the proceedings would be contrary to 

 official tradition. At the General Meeting at Cupar, the 

 President described the result of this meeting with the 

 Board as " bitterly disappointing." Shortly afterwards, it was 

 announced in Parliament that the Secretary for Scotland had 

 appointed an Advisory Committee to advise the Board of 

 Agriculture for Scotland in matters relating to Forestry. The 

 Board has since advertised for an estate suitable for the 

 purpose of forming a State Demonstration Forest Area, but, 

 so far as known, such an estate has not yet been acquired, 

 and nothing further has been made public as to the progress 

 that has been made in connection with the promised Department 

 of Forestry. The Board has, however, deputed Mr Sutherland 

 to represent them at the Meeting to-day, in response to the 

 Council's invitation addressed to the Board, and it is expected 

 that he will make a statement with regard to the Board's 

 Forest policy. 



