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depend, and they therefore cannot over-emphasise its importance 

 as a part of Empire organisation. 



(11) Future Conferences. — The Conference is convinced that 

 the holding of Conferences of Representatives of the Empire on 

 forestry matters is of great service. They desire to thank the 

 Forestry Commission of the United Kingdom for causing the 

 Conference to be assembled and for making the necessary arrange- 

 ments. They recommend that the next Conference be held in the 

 year 1923 and that, if the Dominion Government approves, it be 

 convened in Canada. 



The discussions were throughout of a high standard, and it may 

 be said that, with one exception, the resolutions were agreed to 

 unanimously. The one exception referred to the question of the 

 education of the superior staff. The majority of the Delegates 

 were in favour of estabhshing a high-class central School of 

 Forestry for the Empire away from any university, whereas a 

 strong minority pressed its establishment in connection with a 

 University. A compromise was arrived at by suggesting the 

 appointment of a special committee to consider the question 

 further. That Special Committee has since been appointed and 

 reported in favour of attaching the new School to a university. 



Apart from the subjects covered by the 11 resolutions, the 

 Conference also discussed the desirability of estabhshing an 

 Empire Forestry Association, and this has now been organised 

 under influential patronage. 



The Conference must be pronounced a complete success, and it 

 is confidently expected that a sound forest policy will now be 

 adopted in all parts of the British Empire. 



The British Forestry Commission, by organising the Conference 

 and guiding it to a successful end, deserves well of the Empire, 

 quite apart from its remarkable activity in the introduction of a 

 sound forest policy into Great Britain and Ireland on the basis of 

 the Forestry Act of 1919. 



B. rOBESTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



Great Britain and Ireland have an area of 121,309 square miles 

 and a population of 45,500,000 people. It is situated between the 

 50th and 59th degrees of north latitude and 2 E. and 11 W. longi- 

 tude. The conditions affecting forest growth in these islands 



