From the recently published Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual 

 General Meeting of the Scottish Arboricultural Society, we observe 

 that the actual number of New Members elected during the meeting 

 w&Q forty-six, Q. goodly addition to an already numerous and prosperous 

 ■Society. The financial affairs are consequently in such a healthy 

 state, and so well managed by the energetic treasurer, that the Society 

 is now enabled to invest £300 of its surplus funds, as the nucleus of 

 a sum which it may be hoped will go on increasing annually, until it 

 places the Society in possession of the means for widely extending its 

 sphere of usefulness, and the beneficial influences it is calculated to 

 promote in the prosperity and amenity of the country. 



We are much pleased to observe the addition of two important 

 sections to the Office-bearers, viz., Photographic Artists and Local 

 Secretaries. To the former of these offices the eminent artists Mr. John 

 Horsburgh, Edinburgh, and Mr. Magnus Jackson, Perth, are appointed. 

 The Local Secretaries appointed reside in widely separated parts of 

 England, Scotland, and Ireland, each having a district apportioned to 

 him, in which he acts as the Society's representative under the direc- 

 tion of the Council, giving and receiving all information concerning 

 the Society and its objects in the district, and regularly transmitting 

 the same to the Secretary to be duly laid before the Council. Much 

 depends in a Society of this kind, with its members spread through- 

 out the length and breadth of the land, upon the efforts made by its 

 representatives and those interested in its prosperity in the different 

 districts of the country, and we hope the newly appointed Local 

 Secretaries will display an activity and enthusiasm in promoting the 

 interests and influence of the Society worthy of such an important 

 cause. It may be said that the district appointed to each Local 

 Secretary is too large for efficient working ; but we have no doubt this 

 will quickly be put right as soon as the system gets into working order. 



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