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Excursion 1n 1896. 
The CHarrMAN, on behalf of the Council, suggested that the 
districts of Stirling and Callander should be visited next year, 
and there being no other suggestion, the matter was remitted to 
the Council, with powers. 
LipRARY AND MUSEUM. 
On behalf of the Library Committee, Dr SomeRVILLE reported 
that, in terms of a promise contained in a Memorial presented by 
the Society to the First Commissioner of Works on 12th March 
1881, that the Library and Collection of Forest Specimens and 
Produce belonging to the Society would be deposited for public 
exhibition and instruction in the event of the establishment of 
a School of Forestry in Edinburgh Arboretum, the Committee 
had handed over to the Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden the 
specimens and such of the Books as were not already in the 
Library there, on the condition that the articles should be 
marked as having been presented by the Society; he also reported 
that a list of the Articles presented had been put up with the 
Society’s papers. 
PRESENTATIONS TO THE SOCIETY’S LIBRARY. 
The Secretary reported that the following presentations had 
been made since the Annual General Meeting in January last :— 
1, Lecture on Fibres from Plants, by William R. Guilfoyle, 
Director of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens. From 
the Department of Agriculture, Victoria. 
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. Schedule of Prizes and Programme from the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society. 
3. Transactions of English Arboricultural Society, 1893-94. 
4. Society of Arts Journal, of 21st December 1894, containing 
an article on Forestry by General Michael. 
. Transactions of Surveyor’s Institution, parts 10 and 11 of 
vol. xxvii., containing a paper on Forestry by George 
Cadell. 
6. Report by Secretary for Agriculture, Nova Scotia, 1894. 
7. Report on State Forest Administration, South Australia, 
1893-94. 
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