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should also continue to be issued separately. It recommends Commonwealth Governments to make Forestry Abstracts much more generally available to their forest officers by purchasing and distributing more copies. " With the intensification of research work throughout the Dominion, arrangements have been made to purchase and distribute additional copies of Forestry Abstracts." The Conference would like the Bureau's News Bulletin to be continued, and is further of opinion that a translation service would form a valuable addition to the activities of the Bureau. " New Zealand first made contributions to the News Bulletin in 1946, and agrees that a translation service would be valuable in connection with its research activities." Resolution X : Empire Forestry Association 10. The Conference thanks the Empire Forestry Association for the very useful work it is doing — (1) In promoting greater interest in forestry throughout the Empire. (2) In assisting the development of a forest sense in the general public, through its jßevieiv and other publications. (3) In undertaking the preparation of an Empire Forestry Terminology. The Conference urges foresters, the timber trade, and the general public to give ever increasing support to the Association to enable it to extend its activities. " Twenty-nine officers of the Forest Service support the Empire Forestry Association. The local secretary is Mr A. C. Forbes, B.Sc.For., Forest Experiment Station, State Forest Service, Wh akarewareiva, who will be pleased to answer inquiries from the trade and the general public regarding membership Resolution XI: Co-operation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 11. The Conference records its appreciation of the co-operation received from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in sending forestry officers to attend certain Conference sessions and to explain the work of the FAO Forestry Division, in which Commonwealth forest authorities are closely interested. The Conference fully expects that the understandings reached will be of mutual advantage to Commonwealth countries and to FAO. " The Forest Service furnishes statistical returns and reports as and when required by the FAO. Dr. M. A. Huberman, a representative of the Forestry Division of this organization, recently visited New Zealand in connection with a pending Pacific Forestry Conference in February, 1949." Miscellaneous Resolutions 12. Resolution XII: Name of Conference. —The Conference, having considered the propriety of changing its name to accord with present-day usage, resolves to remit the question to its Standing Committee for further discussion with Governments, with the proviso that it prefers the name British Commonwealth Forestry Conference and proposes that, to preserve continuity, the next Conference be known as the Sixth Conference. Resolution XIII: Next Conference. —The Conference records its appreciation of the informal invitation received from Canada to hold its next meeting in that country. However, the Conference recognizes that the advent of war prevented the present sessions from being held in India, and accedes to the request of the Indian delegates for an

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