DEPUTATION TO PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 479 



XLI. Report of Deputation from the Society received by the 

 Right Hon. R. W. Hanbury, M.P., President of the Board of 

 Agriculture, 9 th October 1901. 



A deputation from the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society 

 was received by the Right Hon. R. W. Hanbury, M.P., in the 

 City Council Chamber, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, 9th October 

 1901, and submitted to him suggestions for the improvement of 

 the practice of, and the education in, Forestry in Great Britain. 



Mr Hanbury was accompanied by Mr T. H. Elliott, C.B., 

 Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, and Mr A. Goddard, 

 Private Secretary. 



The deputation included Mr R. C. Munro Ferguson, M.P., hon. 

 secretary ; Colonel Bailey, Lecturer on Forestry in Edinburgh 

 University; Mr D. P. Laird, Mr D. F. Mackenzie, and Mr James 

 Cook, vice-presidents ; Mr John Methven, Edinburgh ; Mr John 

 Boyd, Pollok ; Mr A. Pitcaithley, Scone Palace ; Mr Charles 

 Buchanan, Penicuik ; Mr James Robertson, Panmure ; Mr R. 

 Forbes, Kennet ; Mr G. U. Macdonald, Raith ; Mr John Annand, 

 Haystoun ; Mr Geo. Mackinnon, Melville Castle ; Mr James 

 Watt, J.P., Carlisle ; Mr Alexander Milne, Edinburgh ; Mr 

 James Whytock, Dalkeith Gardens ; Mr D. R. Adair, S.S.C., 

 Edinburgh ; and Mr Robert Galloway, S.S.C., secretary and 

 treasurer. 



Mr Munro Ferguson, in introducing the deputation, said : 

 Mr Hanbury, we are met here this morning under somewhat dis- 

 advantageous circumstances, because Lord Mansfield, who was to 

 have introduced this deputation, writes that he does not feel able 

 to come ; and we all of us here, who are united to him by many 

 ties of regard, feel that it would have been a great advantage to 

 have had him with us, although you will readily understand that 

 he could not come owing to the terrible loss he has sustained. 

 Your predecessor at the Board of Agriculture suffered at my 

 hands some years ago, and on that occasion he asked us to submit 

 to him a definite scheme ; and this letter, which I have here, sent 

 to him, along with a pamphlet which was written by Colonel 

 Bailey, really contains our main request for an experimental area, 

 where we could test the different methods of growing timber, 

 where practical demonstrations could be made, and where also 

 working foresters, agents, and owners could obtain technical in- 



