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Instituted 16th February 1854. 



PATRON. 



HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Forty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Royal Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society was held in the Hall of the Young 

 Men's Christian Association, 14 South St Andrew Street, 

 Edinburgh, on Tuesday, 24th January 1899, at 2 p.m. Colonel 

 Bailey, President of the Society, occupied the Chair. 



Minutes. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the Society, held on 

 Tuesday, 2nd August 1898, which had been printed and circulated 

 amongst the Members, were held as read, and approved of. 



Apologies for Absence. 



The Secretary reported that apologies for absence had been 

 received from The Marquis of Lothian, The Earl of Mar and 

 Kellie, Sir Robert Moncreiffe, Bart., Sir T. D. Gibson- 

 Carmichael, Bart., M.P., W. Stewart Fotheringham, Esq. of 

 Murthly and Fotheringham, Professor Bayley Balfour, Professor 

 Somerville, and Messrs D. F. Mackenzie, James Moffat, and 

 Charles Buchanan. 



New Members. 



The election of the following thirty-eight Candidates for 

 Membership, whose names had previously been submitted to the 

 Council, was duly confirmed, viz.: — 



Anderson, Robert, Assistant Forester, Knowsley, Prescot. 

 Beatson, David J., Crown Office, Parkend, Dear Lydney. 



