CONTENTS. 



The Society, as a body, is not to be considered responsible for any statements or 

 opinions advanced in the several papers, which must rest entirely on the authority 

 of the respective authors. 



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I. Address delivered at the Forty-sixth Annual Meeting held on 24th 

 January 1899. By Colonel F. Bailey, President of the 

 Society, ........ 1 



II. The Bo'ness Pit-Wood Trade. By Colonel F. Bailey, . . 9 



III. Pure Forests and Mixed Forests. Lecture delivered on 24th 



Fehruary 1899, by Sir Dietrich Brandis, K.C.I.E., LL.D., 



late Inspector-General of Forests, India, . . .13 



IV. Plan or Scheme of Management of the Woods of the Novar 



Estate for twenty-five years, from 1899-1900 to 1923-24. 

 By ColoDel F. Bailey, assisted by John J. R. Meiklejohn, 

 Factor, John D. B. Whyte, Assistant- Factor, and William 

 Mackenzie, Forester, ...... 25 



V. Note on Raith and Novar Working Plans. By R. C. Munro 



Ferguson, M.P., ...... 96 



VI. Thinnings. By M. Broilliaed, . . . .100 



VII. On the Influence of Different Degrees of Thinning on the Growth 



of Beech. By A. C. Forbes, Wood Manager, Bowood, Calne, 116 



VIII. Letter from e. Jagmastare Ells Nilson, Stockholm, Sweden, 



regarding his visit to Larch-woods in Scotland, . . 123 



IX. The Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and its Cultivation. By John 



Nisbet, D.(Ec, F.S.I.,. . . . . .128 



X. The late Mr Malcolm Dunn, Dalkeith. By W. Matthews 



Gilbert, Edinburgh, ...... 132 



XI. The Annual Excursion in 1899 to Beaufort, Dunrobin, Dornoch, 



and Skibo, ..... .138 



Reports by the Honorary Scientists. .... 146 



Proceedings of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society. 



