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good or bad quality of timber is associated with sex; it is certain that 
bat-willow timber of poor quality is obtained from both female and male 
trees, but we lack evidence as to the quality of timber produced by 
well-grown male trees. This is an important point, for several of the 
phenomenally vigorous seedlings being grown from seed obtained by the 
author in 1932 prove to be males. 
Dr. R. Macracan Gorrie.—Forest Research Institute at Dehra Dun, 
India (11.25). 
A forest school was founded in 1878, but it was not until 1906 that research 
workers were appointed to deal with Indian silvicultural and forest utilisa- 
tion problems. Over 100,000 square miles of forest in India and 150,000 in 
Burma are under the Forest Department, apart from large areas under Indian 
States and private ownership, and the annual revenue has been as much as 
£3,000,000 in India and £2,000,000 in Burma. It is now obvious that any 
further increase must depend upon extensive research. A fine new institute 
was built and opened by Lord Irwin in 1929. In the grounds are several 
hundred acres of demonstration forest, arboretum, fruticetum, nurseries, 
and a minor forest products garden. The main building houses the offices 
and laboratories of silviculture, botany, entomology, and forest economy, 
and each of these branches has a large museum hall arranged to show the 
activities they are engaged in. These are increasingly visited by the public 
and by organised parties of students, soldiers and excursionists. Under 
separate roofs are the chemical laboratory, insectary, sawmill, pulp and paper 
plant, and wood workshops, and there is good accommodation for the 
whole staff of some 30 gazetted officers and 300 assistants, artisans, clerks 
and subordinates. Some of the problems dealt with by each branch were 
described and illustrated by 16-mm. films. 
AFTERNOON. 
Excursion in city and neighbourhood in connection with amenity tree 
planting. 
Saturday, September 8. 
Excursion to Ballogie by permission of Col. J. R. Nicol, O.B.E. 
Sunday, September 9. 
Excursion to Durris Estates. 
Monday, September 10. 
T'REE-PLANTING IN TOWNS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURHOOD, WITH SPECIAL 
REFERENCE TO GENERAL AMENITY PLANTING (Section K room, 10.0) :— 
Lord Provost HENRY ALEXANDER.—Town planning with reference to 
general amenity planning. 
The preservation of trees and woodlands as promoting general amenity 
is an important feature of town and country planning and is now recognised 
