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of, namely, that he is not only a Canadian citizen, but that he is 

 a citizen of the British Empire. I must not forget, however, in 

 speaking for Canada, that I am alsogiven the further duty of speak- 

 ing for the other dominions of the Empire, and I am very ready 

 to take the responsibility of returning thanks for the other parts 

 of the Empire. I do not know that I would be prepared to take 

 responsibility for the representatives of the other dominions in 

 every respect ; but I think in this respect I am prepared to 

 take absolutely full responsibility, and to express their thanks 

 to the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society for the kind 

 invitation and for the thoughtfulness which dictated the 

 invitation, and for the splendid way in which we have been 

 entertained since we have come to the old land. We have 

 heard much of the beauty of Scotland, but I think every one of 

 us will carry away from here a still stronger impression of the 

 beauties of old Scotland. I am sure that I am expressing the 

 sentiments of the other Colonial representatives, for they have 

 so expressed themselves quite openly and strongly already. 



" We have a very important work in this forestry work, and 

 although it is new to us in these new countries, we can still 

 appreciate some of the difficulties which the Royal Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society has had to face in trying to develop 

 forestry in this country, and in fact we can understand it very 

 much better now, having come to Scotland and seen something 

 of it at closer range. When we look around we begin to 

 recognise that the difficulties here are of very much the same 

 character essentially as the difficulties we have to face. You 

 have referred, Mr President, to a suggestion that possibly the 

 Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society had outgrown its name. 

 Well, we found a little difficulty at first when we started the 

 Canadian Forestry Association in having that name, which 

 unfortunately in our country, was not a distinctive name, 

 because we had there several benefit societies which had 

 adopted the name of forestry. We have the Ancient Order ot 

 Foresters, and the Independent Order of Foresters, and when 

 Mr Stewart, my predecessor in office, was trying to work up a 

 little interest and to get the support of Forestry Associations, he 

 approached a prominent gentleman, 1 can not be sure, but I 

 think he was a member of Parliament, and said something to 

 him about forestry, and wanted to get his support. There is a 

 distinguished man of Indian blood at the head of the forestry 



