450 The Journal of Forestry. 



Ever since the Society was instituted in 1854, it has annually 

 published a valuable collection of papers on various branches of 

 arboriculturol knowledge, and practical essays on prescribed subjects, 

 for which it offers and awards liberal prizes, and which now amount 

 to eight goodly sized volumes of transactions, containing an immense 

 store of thoroughly sound information upon all the varied subjects 

 connected with arboriculture in its different departments, mostly 

 written by practical foresters upon matters with which they are 

 thoroughly conversant. 



The valuable prizes offered from year to year by the Society for 

 essays upon specified subjects, a list of which for the present year 

 we published in our first number, has done much to call foi'th and 

 foster a literary taste amongst the members, and has been the active 

 means of adding largely to our hitherto very scanty store of arbori- 

 cultural literature. 



Filling such a useful and important position in the past, and 

 accomplishing so much valuable work at times with great difficulties 

 to encounter, and with, till recent years, a limited exchequer, we look 

 forward with confidence to a brilliant future for the Society under 

 the auspices and patronage of the landed proprietors of the country, 

 and the active management of such well known and thorough arbori- 

 culturists as compose its council and office-bearers, presided over by 

 such an able and eminent gentleman as the Eight Hon. W. P. Adam, 

 M.P., Her Majesty's late First Commissioner of AVorks. 



We trust that arboriculturists and their friends throughout the 

 country will make an effort to be present at the forthcoming Annual 

 Meeting ; where, besides the President's Address, which is certain to 

 be full of interest, discussions will take place upon several subjects of 

 much interest and importance to foresters ; including the best kinds of 

 Woods for making Charcoal, and the various methods of preparing it ; 

 Cryptogamic Plants injurious to Forest Trees, and the remedies against 

 their attacks, &c. ; and the eminent authority upon the subject of 

 Forest Schools, Dr. J. C. Brown, of Haddington, late Colonial Botanist, 

 and Professor of Botany in the South African College, Cape of Good 

 Hope, will read a paper upon the establishment of a British School 

 of Forestry, a matter of the highest importance in its bearing upon 

 the future of British forestry, which cannot be allowed to rest until 

 some satisfactory conclusion is come to commensurate with the times, 

 and the urgent want throughout British dominions of a largely 

 increased supply of foresters thoroughly trained in all the scientific, 

 technical, and practical departments of their profession. 



All information in regard to the object and aims of the Society, 

 copies of the Laws, &c., may be had from Mn. John Sadler, F.R.Ph.S., 

 Secretary, IIoyal Botanic Gakdens, Edinburgh, to whom all com- 



