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XII. Address delivered at the Forty-seventh Annual Meeting of the 

 Society, 31st January 1900. By the Eight Hon. the Earl 

 of Mansfield, President of the Society, . . . 157 



XIII. British Forestry and its Future Prospects. By John Nisbet, D.CEc, 161 



XIV. Address delivered at the General Meeting, 7th August 1900. By 



Alexander Milne, Vice-President of the Society, . . 178 



XV. Douglas Fir on the Durris Estate. By Alexander Yeats, 



Assistant Forester, Durris, ..... 185 



XVI. Description and Sketches of Lever Appliance. By James Rodger, 



Forester, Morton Hall Estate, Norwich, . . . 189 



XVII. Working Plan for the Right Honourable the Earl of Selborne's 

 Blackmoor, Bradshott, and Temple Woods in Hampshire. 

 Prepared by John Nisbet, D.CEc, F.S.I. , . . . 193 



XVIII. A Visit to Dr Schlich's Forests at Mirwart. By Colonel F. 



Bailey, ....... 241 



XIX. Forest Operations in County Galway, Ireland. By Dr Schlich, 249 



XX. The International Congress of Sylviculture. By J. S. Gamble, 



CLE., M.A., F.R.S., ...... 262 



XXI. A Battle with Beetles. By John Clark, Forester, Haddo, 



Aberdeen, ....... 274 



XXII. Notes on the Importance of Tree Seed-Testing. By Johannes 



Rafn, Skovfrbkontoret, Copenhagen, Denmark, . . 277 



XXIII. Damage to Woods and Agricultural Crops by Sparks from 



Railway Engines. By Colonel F. Bailey, . . . 289 



XXIV. The Annual Excursion in 1900 to Clandeboye, Baronscourt, and 



Castlewellan, in Ulster, ..... 294 



Reports by the Honorary Scientists, . . . 306 



Notes and Queries: — Damage to Pine Woods by Crossbills — 

 Systematic Nomenclature of Trees — A Survivor of the Black 

 Wood of Rannoch — Extraction of Tree-Stumps — Death Duties 

 and Timber Planting — The Tap-Root of the Larch — The 

 Growing of Douglas Fir — Prices of Home-Grown Timber — The 

 Nation's Timber Imports and Exports, .... 318 



Reviews of Books:— "The New Forestry" — "Our Forests and 

 Woodlands"— " Veitch's Manual of the Coniferae," . . 329 



Obituary Notice: — The late Daniel Dewar, Beaufort, . . 336 



List of Members, corrected to December 1900. 



Proceedings of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society. 



