consideration. The Council has now considered the matter, and resolved 

 not to proceed with the proposal in the meantime, hut to continue to 

 improve the annual publication as far as possible. 



Roitli Working Plan. 



During the past year over 260 copies of this Plan were distributed by 

 the Society amongst the leading landowners in the three kingdoms. 

 Specially bound copies were also sent to the Queen at Balmoral and to 

 the Prince of Wales on the occasion of his visit to Edinburgh, and 

 were graciously received and acknowledged by them. 



Mr John Methven, Edinburgh, in moving the adoption of the 

 Report, referred to the deaths that had taken place since the 

 General Meeting in August. He thought special notice should 

 be taken of the death of the Marquis of Lothian, which had 

 occurred within the past few days, and he accordingly moved : — 

 " That the Members of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, 

 in General Meeting assembled, record their deep sense of the great 

 loss sustained by the Society through the death of the Marquis 

 of Lothian, K.T., President from 1879 to 1881, a Life Member, 

 and created an Honorary Member for his eminent services to the 

 Society and Forestry generally; and that they respectfully tender 

 their deep sympathy with the Marchioness of Lothian and her 

 family in their bereavement." 



The motion was passed unanimously, and the Secretary was 

 instructed to send a copy of it to the Marchioness of Lothian, 

 from whom the following reply has since been received : — 



Newbattle Abbey, 

 Dalkeith, February 10, 1900. 



Sir, — I have received the copy of the Resolution passed at the 

 Annual Meeting of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, 

 and I would be much obliged if you would kindly convey to your 

 Society my heartfelt thanks, and those of my family, for this very 

 kind expression of their sympathy with us in our sorrow. — I am, 

 Sir, yours faithfully, Victoria A. Lothian. 



To K. Galloway, Esq. 



Finances of the Society. 



The Secretary submitted the Accounts for the year ending 31st 

 December 1899, which, after having being audited, had as usual 

 been printed and cumulated amongst the Members previous to the 

 Meeting. He pointed out that, acting on the suggestion made 

 at last Annual Meeting, the Accounts had been divided between 

 Capital and Revenue. 



