CONFERENCE ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1883. 



His Excellency M. DE FALBE took the chair, when the 

 following paper was read by Mr. HowiTZ on 



FOREST PROTECTION AND TREE CUL- 

 TURE ON WATER FRONTAGES, 

 WITH THE VIEW OF PROVIDING A 

 CONSTANT AND STEADY SUPPLY 

 OF WATER, FOOD, SHADE, AND 

 SHELTER FOR FRESHWATER FISH. 



THE questions of pisciculture, its protection, and the pro* 

 tection of fisheries have been already discussed by so many 

 able and learned gentlemen, that I should not have ven- 

 tured to come forward if there had not presented itself to 

 my mind a question in which I, as a professional forester, 

 have a great interest, and one which I feel is of much 

 importance to the success of pisciculture and to all fresh- 

 water fishing. 



The value of the question which I have the honour to bring 

 before you may not at first appear so great as it really is, 

 but, while endeavouring to enlist your sympathies, I do so in 

 the sincere hope that by the introduction of it at this 

 Conference it may become a question of interest to all and 

 a special subject for future legislation. It is the question 

 of the protection, proper management, and cultivation of 



