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"University of Edinburgh, 



"Department of Forestry, 

 "24//^ /wie 19 1 5. 

 " Dear Mr Galloway, 



" In reply to your letter of i6th June 1915, I write to say 

 that we shall be always delighted to see members of the Royal 

 Scottish Arboricultural Society visiting our Museum, and all 

 reasonable facilities will be afforded both to members of the 

 Society and others interested in forestry. — Yours faithfully, 



" E. P. Stebbing, 

 " Head of Department of Forestry, 

 " University of Edinburgh. 

 "The Secretary, 

 " Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society." 



The Government of Canada had an interesting exhibit of 

 Canadian timbers in Glasgow during the summer, which they 

 kindly offered to duplicate as a permanent collection for 

 Edinburgh if the Society could arrange suitable accommodation 

 for it. The space required was about 20 square yards. In 

 the circumstances the Council thought that such an exhibit, 

 being of the nature of a national collection, ought to be housed 

 in the Royal Scottish Museum, but on application being made 

 to the Director, he replied that as there was no space available 

 for the adequate display of the present possessions of the 

 Museum, the provision of 20 square yards for the accommo- 

 dation of new material was quite impossible. 



Conference with the Board of Agriculture on the subject 

 of replanting Cleared Areas. 



In March last a committee of the Council had a meeting 

 with the Board on the subject of the encouragement that might 

 be given by the Government to owners of land to replant 

 areas then being cleared of immature timber for providing 

 collieries with pit-props. The matter was fully discussed, and it 

 was agreed to recommend to the Board that proprietors who 

 replanted such areas or equivalent areas should receive a bonus 

 of a sum per acre planted equal to about half the cost of the 

 plants used. A letter was, however, subsequently received 

 pointing out that the Board was unable in present circumstances 

 to ask the Treasury to sanction the payment out of the Develop- 

 ment Fund or the Agriculture (Scotland) Fund of grants for this 

 purpose. 



The demand for timber for Government purposes having now 

 vastly increased, with the result that extensive areas are being 

 cleared and arrangements are being developed to still further 

 increase the home supplies which may end in the complete 

 clearance of a large proportion of the woodland areas of the 



