DISCUSSION ON FORESTRY IN SCOTLAND. 131 



So I hope the resolution, which I will ask Mr Galloway to 

 read again, will be unanimously adopted. But in the meantime 

 we shall be delighted to hear any views on the subject from 

 individual members of the Society." 



The Secretary again read the first resolution. 



Mr Sydney Gammell, Drumtochty, said : — " I have been able 

 to see something of the work of the Advisory Committee, and 

 have taken a great interest in all they have been doing all 

 along, and I think I cannot do better, in proposing acceptance 

 of this resolution to this meeting, than express my entire approval 

 that this Society should endorse most heartily the finding of a 

 Committee in whom they can have such absolute trust. We 

 may have our individual ideas as to the suitability of one area 

 or another, possibly from geographical position, possibly from 

 some ideas which may be entirely our own and which may 

 concern ourselves or concern any particular schemes with which 

 we have been closely associated, but I think when we get a 

 report like this by such a Committee, it is very necessary that 

 we should do all in our power to carry through what they 

 propose and get something done for the advancement of forestry 

 in Scotland, which is really what we are here to promote. I 

 have great pleasure in moving acceptance of the resolution 

 read by Mr Galloway to this meeting, and I hope it will 

 be carried unanimously." 



The Chairman said: — "The resolution requires a seconder, 

 and I think it would give it all the more force if the seconder were 

 to come from some part of Scotland remote from Aberdeen." 



Colonel Martin Martin said : — " I have very great pleasure 

 in seconding the motion, particularly as I come from a very 

 remote quarter as regards Aberdeen — from the Isle of Skye. 

 I know that the Government pretend to consider the question 

 of the Western crofter. Still, travelling down from Skye, I could 

 see at every railway station the attractions offered by the 

 Colonies to take the crofter away from his country. " Come 

 to Canada" and "Send your sons to Australia" were posted 

 all over the line. That, gentlemen, is what our crofters are 

 doing now. They are leaving the country, and one cannot 

 wonder at it. Many of them say to me, "The croft only offers 

 a home; it does not offer a living." That is the position. The 

 only way the croft may offer a living is with the assistance that 

 may be given by occasional employment in forestry, and that 



