| Description | Correspondence and other records regarding the research of Wilfred E Hiley primarily into: the economics of woodland management and the restoration and better operation of privately owned woodlands; the problem of pit prop extraction; Post-War Forestry Policy with special reference to Private Forestry; forestry education and the training of woodmen.
Correspondents include: Wilfred E Hiley; Duke of Buccleuch; Sir William Jowitt, MP; Leonard Elmhirst; A Wilkinson, and L Wood, chartered surveyor; D Milward; R Coke, C Ackers, and G C Wolryche-Whitmore, Royal English Forestry Society; Sir J Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer; C Darlington, John Innes Horticultural Institution; J P Maxton, Institute of Agrarian Affairs; H Champion, Imperial Forestry Institute; and Sir George Campbell.
This folder also contains reports including: a 'Report on Private Forestry in Britain, Together with Proposals for Measures Designed to Improve It'; 'Forest Tree Breeding'; an annual report for the John Innes Horticultural Institution; 'The Teaching of Estate Management at Cambridge' by N Dean; a report regarding the Bureau of Aeronautics selection of A Beaudoin to effect the transition between scientific discovery and actual operation on a mass basis; and |