Koijal Scottish &rfcoricultural Society, 



Instituted 16th February 1854. 



PATRON. 



HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Forty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Royal Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society was held in 5 St Andrew Square, Edin- 

 burgh, on Wednesday, 31st January 1900, at 2 p.m. The Right 

 Hon. the Earl of Mansfield, President of the Society, occupied 

 the Chair. 



Minutes. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting, held on 1st August last, 

 which had been printed and circulated amongst the Members, were 

 held as read, and approved of. 



Report by the Council. 



The Secretary read the Report by the Council on the work 

 of the Society during the past year, of which the following is an 

 abstract : — 



Membership. 



The death-roll of the year has been exceptionally heavy. The Council 

 lias had to deplore and record the loss of two of its most active and 

 useful Members, Messrs Malcolm Dunn and W. M. Welsh, who were 

 both Vice-Presidents. The names of some other Members of the Society 

 who have passed away are Mr Wni. Erskine, Printer, and Mr Thomas 

 Foulis, Publisher to the Society ; Mr R. V. Kyrke of Penny wern, 

 Mr Montgomery Fleming of Kelvinside, Mr Alexander Thomson, 

 Trinity, and the Marquis of Lothian. 



The following is a list of new Members admitted by the Council 

 during the year ; — 



Life Members, 



Ellison, Francis Beaumont, Bragleenbeg, Kilninver, Oban. 

 Gareioch, John E., Factor, Lovat Estates, Beauly. 

 Hamilton, The Hon. Gavin, of Dalzell, Dalzell House, Motherwell. 

 MACRAE-GlLSTRAP, Major John, of Ballimore, Otter-Ferry. 



