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3. Lightning and its Effect on Trees. By F. J. Brodie. A 



Reprint. 



4. Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society, 



oth series, vol. xii. 



5. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 3rd 



series, vol. x. 



6. Annual Report of the Clerk of Forestry, Ontario, 1899. 



7. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Hybrid Con- 



ference Report, vol. xxiv. 



8. Annual Report of the Secretary for Agriculture, Nova 



Scotia, Year 1899. 



9. Abstract of Meteorological Observations made at Rothesay, 



1899. By James Kay. 



10. Agricultural Returns, 1899. From Board of Agriculture. 



1 1 . Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, vol. x., 



part 1, 1898-99. 



12. Arboreal Aphides. By A. T. Gillanders, Alnwick. A 



Reprint. 



13. Three French Pamphlets on Forestry (being papers read 



at the Forestry Congress at Paris, 1900). From George 

 Cadell. 

 \i. Transactio7is of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Paper Read. 



The Secretary then read a paper by Alexander Yeats, 

 Assistant Forester, Durris, Aberdeenshire, on the Douglas Fir as 

 he had observed it on the Durris estate. A discussion followed, 

 which was taken part in by Mr Munro Ferguson, Mr Pitcaithley, 

 Scone, and Mr Crozier, Durris. 



On the motion of the Chairman, the Secretary was instructed 

 to convey the thanks of the Society to Mr Yeats for his interesting 

 paper. 



Tote of Thanks. 



A vote of thanks to the Chairman for presiding closed the 

 Meeting. 



