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Edinburgh University, who had been severely injured in the 
serious railway accident at Newtonmore Station a few days 
previously, and he was glad to tell them that the Colonel 
was progressing favourably, and had desired him to convey 
to them his grateful thanks for the sympathetic telegram 
they had sent to him on Monday, from the General Meeting at 
Edinburgh. 
Mr Duyy, Dalkeith, in replying, spoke of the great pleasure it 
had given them all to be allowed to visit the rich wealth of wood- 
lands which they had seen and inspected since they arrived in 
the north. They had derived pleasure and much instruction from 
their visit to the forests of Strathspey, and they would return to 
their homes with many useful hints and pleasant recollections of 
all they had seen. He then proposed long life, health, and 
prosperity to the Countess Dowager of Seafield; and, in name of 
the Society, tendered to her ladyship the most cordial thanks of 
the Members, for the great kindness and generous hospitality 
with which they had been treated during their sojourn on her 
beautiful estates. 
The toast was most enthusiastically responded to by the 
Members, and Mr Loean replied, in kindly terms, on behalf 
of Lady Seafield. 
Mr ALEXANDER MILNE, Edinburgh, proposed the health of the 
guides—Messrs Grant Thomson, Smith, Stuart, and Stephen,— 
and thanked them in the name of the party for their valuable 
services in conducting them through the forest; to which Mr 
Smith and Mr Grant Thomson replied. 
Mr Joun IRELAND, Edinburgh, gave the health of the Chairman. 
He and the other representatives of her ladyship had received 
them most gentlemanly and kindly. They had been treated in a 
noble way, and with real genuine hospitality—he would call 
it princely hospitality. 
After dinner, the Members spent a short time in seeing the 
town, and then drove to the station in time to start for the south 
by a special train from Grantown to Perth at 5.25 p.m. At 
Grantown Station Mr Stephen had in readiness the small pots of 
young Scots pines, raised from native seed in the Dell Nurseries, 
which the Members had selected on Tuesday, to take with them 
to their distant homes all over the country, as a living memento 
of their visit to the pine forests on the Seafield estates in Strathspey. 
Bidding good-bye to their friends, the train started prompt at 
