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IT has been announced that Sir Roy Robinson will shortly relinquish his appointment as director-general of forestry. This will not, of course, mean that he is severing his official connexion with the forest administration of Great Britain, for he will remain chairman of the Forestry Commission, a post he has occupied since 1932. Sir Roy has been a member of the Commission ever since it was set up in 1919 on the recommendation of the Acland Report, in the preparation of which he himself took an important part. The adoption of that report marked a new era in British forestry, constituting the recognition, forced by the experiences of the First World War, that the State must accept responsibility for remedying the very unsatisfactory position in the matter of forests and timber supplies, with an inadequate area of forests and a very low production per acre. For some years he was the only professionally qualified forester on the Commission.
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Sir Roy Robinson, O.B.E. Nature 159, 532 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159532a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/159532a0