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of course a classic of Forest Literature—an extract from Evelyn’s ‘Sylva,’ 
written in 1664 : 
‘It will appear that we had better be without gold than without timber.’ 
He wanted bracken destroyed on the areas to be planted, because it came 
up so thickly that it suppressed their little trees after they had planted them 
—larch trees, for instance. 
Mr. Duchesne dwelt upon the urgent importance of the collection of seeds. 
He hoped in the coming season to make a larger appeal for the collection of 
tree seeds, and he would communicate with Mr. Webb and the President, 
and if the societies in every direction would help them in collecting, full 
instructions and every assistance would be given in that collection. 
The Presipent said, if they could have a supply of the instructions sent, 
they would be delighted to send them to their societies. 
The following resolution was now carried nem. con. 
‘That the Delegates present at this Conference pledge themselves 
to the best of their ability to plant a tree on Arbor Day and to 
induce all the members of their societies to do the same; and that 
the suggested day be October 21.’ 
The Secrerary then read a note on an exhibit of a Typomap made by 
Mr. B. B. Woodward, F.L.S., F.G.S. 
The accompanying Typomap was prepared in connection with the Committee 
of the British Association appointed ‘to formulate a definite system on which 
collectors should record their captures.’ This committee appears to have lapsed 
without completing its mission. 
The object of the map is to enable observers to record occurrences with 
sufficient approximate geographical accuracy without incurring the expense 
of specially engraved maps. 
When working out the distribution of a given species the observer can 
take one oi these maps and mark those areas in which it occurs in any way 
that may best suit him. If used in illustrating a printed paper, occurrences 
can be shown by using heavier type, or printing the area in question in red 
as done in the ‘Catalogue of the British Species of Pisidium,’ published by 
the Trustees of the British Museum. 
It may be of interest to point out that the first typomap designed was 
that for Finland utilised in the ‘Herbarium Musei Fennici . . . editio secunda. 
I. Plante Vasculares,’ 8vo., Helsingfors, 1889, published by the ‘ Societas pro 
Fauna et Flora Fennica.’ 
Being the first of its kind it seems of sufficient interest to be reproduced 
here. 
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The principle appears to have been next applied by R. Lloyd Praeger to the 
ease of Ireland (Irish Naturalist, xv. 1906, pp. 88-94) with great success. His 
further attempt in the same article to extend the treatment to the 
whole of the British Islands was, however, not quite so successful, and 
the present version was undertaken by myself with the view of obtaining a 
better total result, the arrangement for Ireland being left undisturbed. 
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