132 PROPOSED SCHOOL OF FORESTRY. [Dec. 



Messrs. Ireland & Thomson have acquired by purchase the New- 

 Golden Acre Establishment of the Lawson Seed and Nursery Company, 

 Limited, which is nearly two and a half acres, mostly under glass ; 

 as well as the Windlestrawlee Nursery, on the opposite side of the 

 road. The Company still retains its old nursery establishments at 

 Bangholm and Wardie. 



The plants of the late Isaac Anderson Henry, Esq., many of them 

 of great rarity and beauty, are, as will be seen from our advertising 

 column, for sale by private tender. Mr. Henry's library was not 

 given to Dundee. 



PROPOSED SCHOOL OF FORESTRY IX EDINBURGH. 



THE resolutions passed at a public meeting held in the Forestry 

 Exhibition Committee Eooms on the 8 th of last month, have 

 now taken shape. The committee then appointed to carry out the 

 proposal of establishing a school with museum attached in Edinbxtrgh, 

 have, under the presidency of the Marquis of Lothian, had several 

 meetings, and got through a good deal of preliminary business. A 

 large number of exhibits have been secured and are now safely 

 stored, and a circular calling for funds will be issued as soon as the 

 state of the Exhibition accounts has been definitely ascertained. 



It will be remembered that at one of the first meetings held in 

 the spring of 1883, to inaugurate a National Forestry Exhibition, 

 one of the reasons given was in order " to promote a movement for 

 the establishment of a National School of Forestry in Scotland." 



At the meeting of the committee held on the 14th ultimo, ex- 

 tracts from two letters from Sir John Lubbock, addressed to us, and 

 referred to elsewhere, showing; a friendlv feeling towards the aims in 

 view, were read with great satisfaction. 



We have just received wlien going to press Messrs. Ireland & Thomson's 

 Descripti^-e Catalogue of Forest Trees, Conifers, Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, 

 Rhododendrons, etc. 



