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Tue EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL EXCURSION. 
In a storm of wind and rain the ss. “ Prague” (Captain Jeflrey) 
left the pier of Leith about 4.30 on the afternoon of Friday the 
26th of July 1895, bound fur Bremen, having on board thirty- 
three members of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, being 
the majority of the members who had intimated their intention of 
taking part in the Excursion of the Society to the Forests of North 
Germany and the Forest Academy of Eberswalde. The remainder 
of the Excursionists travelled by different routes, and, with one 
exception, joined the main body at Bremen on the evening of 
the 28th. 
The party consisted of the following members :—John Barron, 
Borrowash; W. B. Boord, Waterloo, Middleham; Charles 
Buchanan, Penicuik; Councillor Cameron, Edinburgh; R. W, 
Cowper, Sittingbourne, Kent; Robert Douglas, Edinburgh ; 
Malcolm Dunn, Dalkeith; Wm. Erskine, Edinburgh; Malcolm 
Finlayson, Crieff; Robert Forbes, Clova, Lumsden; Wm. Forbes, 
Masham, Yorks; R. B. Fyffe, Lindertis, Kirriemuir; Robert 
Galloway, Secretary; James A. Gossip, Inverness; W. B. Have- 
lock, Brocklesby, Lincolnshire ; James Kay, Bute; Alex. M‘Rae, 
Manchester ; Samuel Margerison, Calverley, Leeds; R. V. Mather, 
Kelso; John Maughan, Jervaulx Abbey, Yorks; Alex. Milne, 
Edinburgh; William Milne, Foulden, Berwick-on-Tweed; Malcolm 
Morgan, Crieff; Wm. C. Orkney, Moncreiffe; Andrew D. Page, 
Culzean, Maybole; Walter Page, Myregornie, Kirkcaldy; <A. D. 
Richardson, Royal Botanic Garden; Donald Robertson, Novar ; 
James Simpson, Broughty Ferry; Andrew Slater, Haystoun, 
Peebles; Thomas Smith, Tring Park, Herts; Professor Somerville, 
Newcastle-on-Tyne; Wm. Tait, Edinburgh; David Thomson, 
Dunfermline; Wilson Tomlinson, Clumber Park, Notts; H. E, 
Underwood, Farnham Park, Bury St Edmunds; A. C. D. Vert, 
Edinburgh ; Robert Wallace, Edinburgh; John Watson, Edin- 
burgh; Jas. Wm. Watt, Carlisle; James Welsh, Edinburgh ; 
William White, Edgefield, Loanhead. 
The headquarters of the Excursionists at Bremen was the Hotel 
de l'Europe, where they were welcomed to Germany by Dr Adam 
Schwappach, Professor of Forestry, Eberswalde, who was specially 
commissioned by the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture and 
Forestry to act as the official guide of the party during the tour, 
