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The Secretary mentioned that applications for the Bursary 

 were now being received, and invited candidates to send in their 

 names as soon as possible.* 



The Malcolm Dunn Memorial Fund. 



The Secretary reported that the total amount collected by the 

 several Societies was £255, and that after paying for the monu- 

 ment erected in Dalkeith Cemetery, there would be a balance of 

 about £200, to be disposed of as the Societies interested might 

 decide. Mr Robert Baxter, Dalkeith, said that much disappoint- 

 ment had been expressed by Mr Dunn's friends and admirers in 

 the district that more money had not been expended on the 

 monument. The matter was referred to the Council. 



Forestry Education. 



Mr Munro Ferguson, M.P., said that he thought they must 

 all feel that the Chairman in his address had taken up some of 

 the most interesting questions in connection with forestry. One 

 was the employment which would be given by the afforestation 

 of waste lands, and the other was the provision of proper forestry 

 training. The training at present afforded was not very elabo- 

 rate, but he thought it was much to be regretted that what 

 facilities did exist were not very well taken advantage of. There 

 was, he thought, now, or there might be before long, an oppor- 

 tunity for the improvement of the forestry training, which they 

 should all be ready to support. There had been some informal 

 or general proposal that it would be an advantage in some 

 respects were the India Forestry School at Coopers Hill changed 

 to some other centre. Nothing had been formally proposed by 

 the Government of India, but it always seemed to him a most 

 rational method of proceeding if the Indian training were con- 

 ducted in the best possible centre, which Coopers Hill certainly 

 was not; and if the Government of India, the University of 

 Edinburgh, the Royal Scottish Avboricultural Society, and the 

 Highland and Agricultural Society, together with those who 

 were privately interested in forestry, were collectively to 

 co-operate in establishing a good centre of forestry, he thought 

 they would achieve some of the objects which had been so ably 

 placed before them in the address of the Chairman. 



* The holder of the Bursary for 1900-1901 ia Matthew Feaks. 



