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PRESENTATIONS TO THE SocretTy’s LIBRARY. 
1, Annual Progress Report upon State Forest Administration 
in South Australia for the year 1892-1893. 
. Six Pamphlets bearing on Forestry, written by Dr John 
Nisbet of the Indian Forest Service, and presented by 
him. 
3. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for 
1893, part 1. 
4. Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute 
of Science, series 2, vol. i., part 2. 
5. Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 1893. 
6. Various Reports from the Department of Agriculture, 
Victoria, Australia. 
. Various Reports from the Department of Agriculture, 
Britain. 
8. Annual Administration Report of the Forest Department, 
Madras Presidency, for period ending 30th June 1893. 
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Tue CHairR oF FORESTRY. 
The CHatrMAN reported that he, along with Mr James Morrar, 
had been appointed by the Council as a Committee, to hand over to 
the Edinburgh University authorities the money collected by the 
Society in aid of the Endowment Fund of the Chair of Forestry. 
This they had done on the 2nd of May, on the distinct under- 
standing that the money should be used for no other purpose than 
the establishment of a Chair of Forestry. The sum paid over 
amounted to £433, 10s. 
In acknowledging the receipt of the amount, the Rev. Dr 
TayLor, Secretary to the University Court, wrote as follows :— 
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, 
3rd May 1894. 
My dear Sir,—I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 
yesterday’s date, enclosing bank draft for £433, 10s., on account 
of the subscriptions collected by the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 
Society towards the Endowment of a Chair of Forestry in this 
University. 
As the University Court meets on 14th curt., I hope to be able 
to apprise you immediately thereafter that the Court have accepted 
