the ravages of which I then described as little short of a 

 national calamity. To the Highland and Agricultural 

 Society of Scotland and the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society I have contributed twenty-three papers on different 

 topics connected with forestry, for which special medals 

 have been awarded, while my " Practical Forestry " has 

 now passed into a fourth edition. 



In connection with the afforesting of waste lands I have 

 travelled over the greater part of the Kingdom and examined 

 much of the ground that could be set aside for this purpose, 

 including the peat bogs of Ireland; while at altitudes up 

 to 1,100 feet I have formed plantations on the bare and 

 wind-swept hill-sides of Wales and Scotland, which to-day 

 are not only a boon to the farmers in the way of shelter, 

 but a considerable source of profit to the owners as well. 



The above, combined with examinations of and reports 

 on several of the largest woodland properties in this coun- 

 try, which I made at the request of the owners, have given 

 me a wide insight into the forestry problem generally, but 

 particularly with reference to our requirements in the near 

 future, as by far the largest timber importing country in 

 the world. A. D. W. 



