40 SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF ABERDEEN AND DISTRICT 
B.Sc. in Forestry. Special courses are also provided for apprentice 
foresters, agricultural graduands and those who intend to qualify for 
general plantation work. 
SocreTies.—A branch of the Royal Scottish Forestry Society was 
instituted in Aberdeen in 1906, and has contributed to the advancement 
of forestry by holding regular meetings for the reading of papers by 
eminent foresters ; discussions on forestry subjects and visits to forestry 
estates have marked the activities of the branch. 
The Moray and Nairn Forestry Society, formed in 1923, is sustained 
and conducted by purely local enterprise and enthusiasm, and has done 
much to promote the development of scientific and practical forestry 
in the Elgin and Forres districts. 
Farther north, there is the Inverness branch of the Royal Scottish 
Forestry Society. Among the many useful functions it has served is 
the promotion of practical competitions in wood-craft. This has been 
an outstanding feature. 
SETTLEMENT ScHemMES.—The following facts will indicate what the 
Forestry Commissioners have already done and what they will accomplish 
in future in maintaining and increasing the forest area and forest 
industries, which are so intimately bound up with the development and 
prosperity of the North of Scotland. 
The Forestry Commissioners have created 30 new Forest Workers’ 
Holdings on the extensive forests of the Great Glen in Inverness-shire 
and a further 10 on adjacent estates. ‘There are 182 persons resident 
on these settlements. The holders themselves are guaranteed employment 
for six months in the year on the forest areas. In practice, the amount 
of work available has permitted their employment for periods considerably 
in excess of sixmonths. So far as can be ascertained, the number of people 
regularly employed on these estates by the Commission is five or six 
times the number employed when the lands were in private ownership. 
The stock owned by the 40 holders is valued at £977. 
On the estates of The Bin and Clashindarroch, in the Huntly district, 
20 holdings have been formed, housing 87 persons, including 22 employees. 
The holders’ stock is valued at £552. A further 17 holdings have been 
made on the Culbin Forest and on Newton Farm in the Forres-Elgin 
district, where a large forest nursery is in course of development. Here 
the total residents number 76, of whom 22 are employed by the Com- 
mission. Other less important settlements have been created in the 
Aberdeen University area, as at the Forest of Deer, Drumtochty, Scoot- 
more, Teindland and other places. 
Tue Timer INDusTRY OF ABERDEEN.—The timber trade in Aberdeen 
is one of the most important trades in the city. 
Aberdeen, being situated on the east coast, and being very accessible 
for shipping from the Continent, is the port for the importation of timber 
for the North of Scotland. The average annual importation into 
Aberdeen of foreign timber by sea (i.e. through the Customs) in 1932 
and 1933 was about 3,000,000 cubic ft. of timber. ‘The actual importation 
in 1933 was 2,358,654 cubic ft. (up to the end of November 1933), and 
the sources were : Norway, 122,050 cubic ft. ; Finland, 541,650 cubic ft. ; 
