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English or Scotch people become entirely Chilians in speech and 

 sentiment. The mixture of races and civilisation never failed to 

 interest me. I passed New-Year's Eve at Angol in the company 

 ■ of a German from Hamburg in the hotel of a Basque from the 

 Pyrennees. Telegraph and telephone wires cross unpaved 

 streets. Under them rides an Indian woman with her baskets. 

 Donkeys with loads of sticks stumble into the town from their 

 fifteen mile journey. Bullock carts with solid creaking wheels 

 come to the railway station, where American locomotives bring in 

 polite Chilian officials, German chemists, Italian shopkeepers, 

 French hotel-keepers, British merchants, pure Indians in 

 blankets, and Chilian workmen. 



25t]i Nove^fiber, 1904. 



Chairman — The President. 



New Members." — Miss L. H. M'Connell, Milnhead ; Mrs M. 

 A. Thompson, and Miss Bell, Castle Street, Dumfries; and Mr 

 Edward J. Hill, Ladyfield. 



Forests: Wild and Cultivated. By Dr Augustine Henry, 

 M.A.F.L.S., &c., Kew. 



In this lecture Dr Henry gave an interesting account of the 

 wild forests of the world, and contrasted them with those which 

 were cultivated, pointing out the errors in the management of 

 most cultivated forests in this country, and contrasting them with 

 those which are properly managed. The lecture was illustrated 

 with limelight views. It has been published in the " Economic 

 Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society." Vol. I., Part V., 

 No. II, under the above title. 



16th December, 1904, 



Chairman — Mr R. Service, Vice-President. 

 New Member. — Mr Jas. Hewitson, Park House, Dumfries. 



