only will be given to each prize winner, and where more than 

 one prize has been gained, a note of these prizes will be written 

 upon the certificate. 



Developmefit of Afforestation. 



The resolutions on the subject of the acquisition of a 

 Demonstration area and the appointment of Advisory and 

 Research Officers, which were passed at last Annual Meeting 

 and included in the report of the discussion on Forestry in 

 Scotland held that day, and printed in the Diamond Jubilee 

 part of the Transactions, were duly forwarded to the Prime 

 Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Treasury, the 

 Secretary for Scotland, the Board of Agriculture for Scotland 

 and the Development Commissioners. . These resolutions with 

 a reasoned statement appended were also sent to all the Scottish 

 Members of Parliament, a large number of whom wrote express- 

 ing approval of them. A letter was subsequently received 

 intimating that at a meeting the Scottish Members unanimously 

 agreed to support the resolutions. 



As no progress had been intimated these resolutions were 

 re-affirmed at the General Meeting held at Hawick, and were 

 again sent to the Ministers mentioned above. A reprint of the 

 report of the proceedings in connection with the celebration of 

 the Society's Diamond Jubilee, which, as was already stated, 

 was taken part in by a number of Foreign, Indian and Colonial 

 foresters representing their respective Governments, was sent to 

 all the Ministers mentioned above and all the Scottish Members 

 of Parliament, along with a circular drawing their attention 

 particularly to the resolution passed by those distinguished 

 guests expressing their opinion in favour of afforestation in 

 Scotland on a large scale with the active support of the nation, 

 and to the Society's resolution homologating that opinion and 

 asking the support of the State. 



A memorandum by the Development Commissioners on the 

 subject of the afforestation of privately owned lands was 

 published in the newspapers, but has now been superseded by a 

 memorandum on the same subject published by the Board of 

 Agriculture for Scotland. A copy of this latter memorandum 

 and a letter from the President on the subject appeared in the 

 Transactions. 



The fourth annual report of the Development Commissioners 

 to 31st March 1914 was issued in the autumn of last year, from 

 which it appears that in the course of the year under review 

 they had agreed to advance to the Board of Agriculture for 

 Scotland the sum of ;^ 1500 for salaries and expenses to Advisory 

 Officers to be attached to the three centres of education at 

 Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow. It is understood that the 

 Advisory Officer for the Glasgow district has now been appointed, 



