TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION K. 591 
and the British Empire at the bottom of the list as regards effective State 
forestry. But forestry in Spain and Portugal is now a quarter of a century 
ahead of that of the British Isles; and many valuable lessons are to be learnt by 
those who can go to Spain and Portugal for the purpose of studying forestry. 
Portugal imports one-third million pounds’ worth (against three millions Australia 
and thirty millions Britain) of forest products which, with good forestry, would 
come from the waste lands of each of these three countries. Portugal exports 
about one and a quarter million pounds’ worth of forest products—cork, one 
million; Cluster Pine pit-props, &c., one-third million; against Australia one 
million and Britain nothing (the figures shown being re-exportations). Portugal 
and Australia have each a population of over four millions. 
