TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
VII. Address delivered at the Forty-second Annual General 
Meeting, held on 23rd January 1895. By R. C. Munro 
Frereuson, Esquire of Raith and Novar, M.P., President of 
the Society. 
GENTLEMEN,—TI find that the next item on the programme is 
my address as President, and I regret that it has been so long in 
being delivered. I must express the very great pleasure I feel in 
finding myself among so many Scottish foresters. Our numbers, 
apparently, are about to be largely increased; and when I heard 
sO many new names read over just now by the Secretary, I 
really thought we were re-electing the whole Society. 
At the close of my address, I see that we are to be engaged in 
the election of office-bearers. We must all of us hope that in 
the matters of membership or finanee, or in the conduct of our 
business generally, we shall unite together as one man, in order 
to forward the interests of Forestry in Scotland. After all, the 
interests of Forestry are greater than the question of whether our 
accounts have been kept with absolute accuracy in the past; and 
I hope that the effect of our meeting here to-day will be judged 
less by any shortcomings in our system of keeping accounts, or in 
our way of doing business, than by the zeal which I feel sure 
is in each one of us, to do what we can to secure progress in a 
calling we all have at heart, and which many of us pursue as 
our means of livelihood. 
Some observations were made to-day upon the manner in which 
the Z'ransactions are presented to the Society. I am inclined 
to agree with those who think that the Z’ransactions might be 
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