TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION F. 621 
TEMPERANCE SECTION GENERAL SECTION 
= Expected Actual Expected Actual 
Claims Claims Claims Claims 
1866-70 (5 years) . ° : : 549 411 1,008 944 
1871-75 (5 years) . - 2 723 511 1,268 1,330 
1876-80 (5 years) . : ; 4 933 651 1,485 1,480 
1881-82 (2 years) . A . “ 439 288 647 585 
Total (17 years) s e 2,644 1,861 4,408 4,339 
Tt will be seen from this that the claims in the temperance section are only a 
little over 70 per cent. of the expectancy, while in the general section they are but 
slightly below the expectancy. 
The Whittington Life Assurance Company keep the statistics of abstainers apart 
from those who are not abstainers, but their experience is not yet enough to form 
any exact opinion upon; however, they say ‘ that teetotalism seems to be favour- 
able to longevity.’ 
The Sceptre Life Association states that ‘during the eighteen years of our 
history ending December 31 last (1882), we had 116 deaths in our temperance 
section against 270 expected deaths,’ and in this year (letter dated J uly 23, 1883) 
the same disproportion prevails, as ‘ we had 51 deaths, and only 7 of them on the 
lives of abstainers, whereas to be equal with non-abstainers there should have 
been 19,’ 
In the Emperor Life Assurance Office, they have a temperance branch, and they 
assure lives at a ‘less rate than moderate drinkers, thus giving them an immediate: 
advantage of from 3/. to 7/., according to age, each 100/. assurance,’ 
In some Accidental offices the assumed superior lives of abstainers is recognised! 
by a charge of 20 per cent. less to teetotalers than to moderate drinkers. 
3. Forestry.| By Wit.1am Borty. 
The author quoted numerous authorities in support of a School of F orestry = 
the report of the Committee of the House of Commons in 1854; Sir John Lubbock’s 
observations on the vote for Woods and Forests in the last session of Parliament cs 
Mr. Brown’s standard work ; papers read at the Society of Arts; the Congress at 
St. Louis in 1872; that at Pesth in 1879; also the Meteorological Congress held 
at Rome in 1879, which was attended by delegates from different states in Europe, 
at which the chief question was, ‘ How can the development of meteorology in con- 
nection with agriculture and forestry be forwarded by the congress ? ’ further that, 
in 1880, there was a conference at Vienna on Agvicultural and Forest Meteorology. 
It was attended by twenty-two representatives, including Austria, France, Ger- 
many, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland. The questions for- 
warded by the English Meteorological Society, with remarks, will be found in 
vol. 17 of the Royal Agricultural Society, occupying twenty pages, by R. H. Scott, 
M.A., F.R.S., and Secretary of the Meteorological Office. One of the resolutions 
at Pesth in 1876 recommended ‘ observations on the influence on climate of the 
destruction of forests and planting of trees.’ 
Observing other countries are alive to its importance, therefore, we must not 
stand still. Scotland is also moving in the right direction, and in our colonies 
Canada is leading the van. The paper concluded by pointing a few of the obvious 
advantages to be derived from the planting of trees in our country :— 
1. Employment of labour, including nurserymen and tool-makers, 
2. Ornamental improvement of landscape, as well as for building and other pur- 
* Published in eatenso by the Southport News, October 3, the Trish Farm, Forest, 
and Garden, October 13, and other agricultural journals, 
