| Description | Records regarding the meetings and activities of the Royal English Forestry Society (REFS) including: a joint Conference on Forestry with the Central Landowners' Association; the amalgamation of the REFS and the Home Grown Timber Marketing Association; and training courses in Forestry.
Records includes: minutes from 7 meetings of the REFS Executive Committee, 2 Joint Conferences on Forestry, 3 meetings of the Council for the REFS, and 2 meetings of the REFS Publications Committee; notices, papers, reports, notes, and memoranda from meetings; a publication of 'The Economists'; a printed pamphlet for a Government Vocational Training Scheme in conjunction with the Forestry Commission in 'Forestry'; press cuttings; and correspondence.
Correspondents include: Leonard Elmhirst; Wilfred E Hiley; H Elwes; South Devon Woodland Owners; The Ministry of Supply; E Wynne-Jones, and Sir Roy Robinson, Forestry Commission; the Royal Scottish Forestry Society; O Roskill; R Strachan Gardiner, secretary, and R Proby, chairman for the Central Land Owners' Association; W Vane, MP; and members of the REFS including, J Genese, G C Wolryche-Whitmore, R Gardner, L Wood, and C Ackers. |