46 SCOTTISH ABBOBICULTUBAL SOCIETY. [Nov., 



Provost and magistrates granted the use of the gardens for two or three 



mouths the Committee should erect in different parts of the gardens build- 

 ings of a handsome description, like Swiss chalets, and place the exhibits 

 in these buildings. One court might be set apart for Great Britain, 

 another for Canada, another the United States, another Australia, and so 

 on for all the countries represented, while they could place the live 

 specimens on the slopes of the Castle on the north side of the Esplanade. 

 If that were done they would secure such an Exhibition as no other city 

 in the kingdom could rival. Then, with the electric light, which would 

 illuminate the whole gardens, and, with military music, they could have 

 evening promenades. Of course, when the Exhibition closed the build- 

 ings would have to be taken down, and the gardens restored, but the 

 buildings could be re-erected elsewhere for exhibitions of the manufacturing 

 industries of Scotland, which might impart a great impetus to the industrial 

 art of the country. 



Education. 



Mr. Duun said that in the matter of the Education of young 

 Foresters, the Council had done little directly. Indirectly, however, in 

 promoting the International Exhibition of Forestry, they expected that 

 educational interests would be vastly promoted. He moved that the 

 Council be iustructed to continue to do their best in advancing the 

 educational cause. 



Mr. Hutchison said that the Executive Committee of the Exhibition 

 had not lost sight of the education and special interests of Foresters. 

 They had provided a special class for objects relating to the social and 

 economical condition of Foresters, who had it in their own hands to make 

 that class interesting and instructive. The principal object of introducing 

 this section into the progiamme was to, improve the condition of 

 Foresters, both at home and in the temporary erections in the woods. 



Mr. Eider would like, in relation to this matter, to make a suggestion 

 to the Society and to the Executive Committee of the Exhibition. 

 It was that they should undertake the publication of a series — either 

 large or small — of handbooks on subjects connected with Forestry. 

 These books could be brought out in a cheap form, and he had no doubt 

 they would have a very important effect upon the science and art of 

 Forestry. The idea was suggested to him by what had been done in 

 connection with the recent Fisheries Exhibition in London. The Council 

 of that Exhibition had published, at the small price of a shilling, a series 

 of little books bearing on the subject of Fish and Fisheries. If the 

 Committee of the Forestry Exhibition could be induced to adopt the 

 idea, he thought there would be no difficulty in finding suitable writers. 

 The books would^not only have a large sale, but would help materially 

 the cause of Forest education. 



Mr. Dunn's motion having been adopted, the subject dropped. 



Presentations to the Society. 

 The Secretary intimated that the following presentations had been 



