the Board must look to the Development Commissioners for 

 the funds to provide the Demonstration Forest, the School 

 and its equipment. 



Forestry Adviser for Scotland. 



The Advisory Committee recommended that Mr John 

 Nisbet should be appointed Forestry Adviser for Scotland, 

 and, with the concurrence of the Board, this appointment 

 was made in August of last year, and the Advisory Committee 

 for the last five months have had the advantage of Dr 

 Nisbet's advice in all the matters that have come under 

 their consideration. 



Advisory Ojficers. 



Among other things, I should mention that the Board 

 have determined to make a representation to the Development 

 Commissioners of the urgent necessity for Advisory and 

 Research Officers for Scotland. Five Advisory Officers have 

 been allowed for England, and they more or less traverse 

 their districts independently, working from different parts of 

 the country. In Scotland it is proposed, however, that the 

 work shall be directed from one centre, i.e., the Offices of 

 the Board, in which the results will be tabulated and recorded, 

 and this will ensure a definite and uniform policy, and one 

 which, when promulgated with the advantage of the extensive 

 knowledge of the unofficial members of the Advisory Committee, 

 ought to have the support of your Society and of those 

 interested in forestry. 



Survey. 



The Board felt that progress might be made in the direction 

 of a general survey of Scotland, if it was possible to prepare 

 plans showing the areas contained in elevations within which 

 silviculture was practicable, and the first start in this direction 

 has been made, and a map of one county has been completed. 

 The areas are divided into three sections — the first being 

 under 500 feet, the second from 500 to 1000 feet, and the 

 third from rooo to 1500 feet above sea-level. The Board 

 propose gradually to have similar maps completed for each 

 county in Scotland, and I am glad to say that they can be 

 finished at comparatively small expense. These maps are 



