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100 years old, on the Millstone grit, near Chatsworth, at an 
altitude of about 800 ft., where pedunculate oak of the same 
age is all stagheaded and dying. This was from a photograph 
by Mr. Robertson, woodman to the Duke of Devonshire. 
Mr. Elwes, F.R.S., exhibited a number of remarkable 
photographs of specially fine trees and woods, all of which are 
growing in Britain ; but these were not mentioned in the 
catalogue. In collaboration with Dr. Henry, F.L.S., of Kew, 
Mr. Elwes is now producing a work on “ The Trees of Great 
Britain and Ireland,” the completion of which will form quite 
an era in British forestry. 
One section of this interesting exhibition was devoted to 
specimens showing damage to trees by insects and fungi, the 
chief exhibitors being : the Royal Agricultural Society, who 
showed two cases of specimens (prepared by Mr. Cecil 
Warburton, Zoologist to the Society) illustrating the damage 
done to trees by Scolytus pruni , Saperda carcharias , the 
cockchafer, Cryptococcus fagi , Hylesinus fraxini , and several 
insects that attack conifers ; the Board of Agriculture, who 
presented the Society with a set of nine diagrams of diseases 
of forest trees ; the Surveyors’ Institution ; the Earls of 
Powis and Yarborough ; Mr. W. Frank, of 31 Great James 
Street, London, who showed some German cases of insects 
and fungi affecting trees ; and Mr. A. T. Gillanders, forester to 
the Duke of Northumberland. A manual of insects destruc- 
tive to forest trees will shortly be published by this latter 
painstaking and experienced entomologist. 
There can be no doubt that the Forestry Exhibition, for 
which excellent accommodation was afforded at Park Royal, 
proved a complete success ; and great credit is due to 
Lord Moreton, Mr. George Marshall, and others, who must have 
devoted much time and labour in collecting and arranging 
such useful exhibits. 
His Majesty the King, who visited the Show at Park Royal, 
spent quite a considerable time in the Forestry Exhibition, 
and the well-managed woods at Sandringham and Balmoral 
show that the King is a keen forester. 
W. R. Fisher. 
6 Linton Road, 
Oxford. 
