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and publicity in order that the people may be fully informed of 

 the aims and purposes of forest policy and may thus be induced to 

 co-operate towards its successful fulfilment. 



(6) Distribution of Forest Plants. — The Conference have had 

 brought to their attention the advantages which have accrued 

 in several parts of the Empire from the wide distribution of forest 

 plants, and desire to bring the method of encouraging tree-planting 

 by distribution of plants either from Government or private 

 nurseries gratuitously or at cost price to the earnest attention of 

 their Governments. 



(7) Terminology and Trade Nomenclature. — The following 

 questions should be referred to the proposed Imperial Forestry 

 Bureau immediately on its formation : — 



(i.) Standardisation of forest terminology ; 

 (ii.) Correct identification of timbers, and standardisation of 

 their trade names. 



(8) Research. — The scheme of research work drawn up by a 

 Committee receives the approval of the Conference, and is 

 recommended to their Governments for early consideration and 

 approval by them. 



This takes the form of the report from a Committee appointed 

 to prepare a draft scheme for the organisation of that research 

 work which is essential to the progress of forestry, including both 

 the production and utilization of forest produce, the Committee 

 to pay particular regard to the importance of avoiding overlapping 

 and of co-operation with existing institutions. The report deals 

 with the organisation and sub-division of research, with the 

 relation of the different parts of research to one another and to 

 education and practice, and with the subjects of research both 

 generally and in relation to the needs of the different parts of the 

 Empire. 



(9) Education. — It should be a primary duty of Forest 

 Authorities throughout the Empire to establish systematic 

 schemes of forestry education. It has been found for climatic 

 and other reasons that it would not be possible for each part of the 

 Empire to establish a complete scheme of forestry education of its 

 own, and therefore it is essential that those parts of the Empire 

 which are willing and able to establish complete systems should, 

 as far as possible, frame such schemes with a view to combining 



