Library. 



The usual list of additions to the Library will be found at 

 the end of the " Proceedings." 



Forestry Congresses at Paris atid Ghent. 



The Society was duly represented at these Conferences, and 

 the Official Reports of the Paris Congress have been received 

 and added to the Library. 



Deputation to Railway Companies. 



A deputation, consisting of members of this Society, of the 

 Landowners' Co-operative Forestry Society, and of the Timber 

 Merchants' Association, waited, by arrangement, upon repre- 

 sentatives of the Scottish Railway Companies, in Glasgow, 

 on Friday, 28th April last, and discussed with them the 

 question of the prices of home-grown railway timber, and 

 pointed out the grievance under which growers of timber in 

 this country suffered by obtaining a smaller price for their 

 home-grown railway timber than the Railway Companies were 

 paying for foreign railway timber of the same quality. A 

 detailed report of this Conference was printed on page 188 

 of vol. xxvii. of the Transactions. Although the Railway 

 Companies made no formal promise of alteration in their 

 policy, more favourable terms have since been offered by 

 Railway Companies for home-grown railway timber. 



Development Commissioners' Third Report. 



This report was issued in the autumn, and the part dealing 

 with Forestry has been reproduced in the January Transactions. 



Forestry in the West Highlands. 



This Committee met in the course of the past year, and 

 considered a number of suggestions as to how interest in 

 Forestry might be aroused, and prejudice in the West Highlands 

 removed. It was generally recognised that this could best 

 be done with the co-operation of the officials of the three 

 Agricultural colleges with such active support as the members 

 of the Society could give in formulating schemes of operations. 



Forestry Fxaminations. 



The advisability of arranging for an examination in Forestry 

 for working foresters, and for the further provision of education 

 for working foresters, was considered by the Council, and a 



