School of Forestry, Afforestation, Etc. 



In 1882 the Society strongly urged the creation of a British 

 School of Forestry ; and with a view of stimulating public interest 

 in the matter, a Forestry Exhibition, chiefly organised by the 

 Council, was held in Edinburgh m 1884. , , , r 



In 1890, the Society instituted a Fund for the purpose of 

 establishing a Chair of Forestry at the University of Edinburgh, 

 and a sum of £s^A, 3S. lod. has since been raised by the Society 

 and handed ox'Sr to the University. Aided by an annual subsidy 

 from the Board of Agriculture, which the Society was mam y 

 instrumental in obtaining, a Course of Lectures at the University 

 has been delivered without interruption since 1889 Ihe boc ety 

 also drew up a Scheme for the Establishment of a State Model or 

 Demonstration Forest for Scotland, which was laid before the 

 Departmental Committee on British Forestry, and m their Report 

 the Committee recommended the establishment of a Demonstra- 

 tion Area and the provision of other educational facilities m Scotland. 

 The Government, in 1907, acquired the Estate of Inverliever m 

 Argyllshire; and while this cannot be looked on as a Demonstra- 

 tion Forest, it is hoped that it may prove to be the firs step m 

 a scheme of afforestation by the State of unwooded lands in 

 Scotland. Meantime Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, for a part ot 

 whose woods at Raith a Working-Plan is in operation, very kindly 



allows Students to visit them. .• .1 ^ r^nnril 



After the Development Act came into operation, the Council 



passed a Resolution urging that the G°^e[""\^"\^h°"^;^^;^^,f '" ^. 

 Board of Forestry, with an Office m Scotland, where the largest 

 areas of land suitable for Afforestation are situated, which wou d 

 provide Demonstration Forests and Forest Gardens and would 

 carry out, as an essential preliminary to any great scherne of 

 National Afforestation, a Survey of all areas throughou he 

 country suitable for commercial planting. The Society s policy 

 for the^ development of Forestry in Scotland has since been fuly 

 laid before the Development Commission. As a result of these 

 representations, the Secretary for Scotland appointed a Com- 

 mittee to report regarding the acquisition and uses of a Demon- 

 oration Forest Area, and any further steps ,t is desirable to take in 

 order to promote Silviculture in Scotland. The Committee reported 

 in the beginning of 191.^, and the Society is pressing the Board 

 of Agriculture for Scotland, being the Department now coiv 

 cerned with Scottish forestry, to give effect to the Committees 

 recommendations and to encourage the mcept.on of schemes o 

 afforestation. The Society has also published a valuable Repor 

 on Afforestation-including a Survey of Glen Mor-prepared or 

 it by Lord Lovat and Captain Stirling, which, ,t is hoped, may form 

 the basis of the general Forest Survey advocated by the Society. 



Resolutions in favour of the acquisition of part of Ballogie, on 

 Deeside,and Supplementary Areas in other districts for Demonstra- 

 tion purposes, aid of the creation of a Department of Forestry fo 

 Scotland with a separate annual grant, were passed at last Annual 

 Meeting. 



