Hogal Scottish &vboricultural Societg. 



Instituted 16th February 1854. 



PATRON. 



HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY THE KING. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Society was held in 

 5 St Andrew Squai-e, Edinburgh, on Thursday, 31st January 

 1901, at 2 p.m. Colonel Bailey, Senior Vice-President of the 

 Society, occupied the Chair. 



Death of the Queen. 



On taking the Chair, Colonel Bailey read a telegram from the 

 Earl of Mansfield, President of the Society, apologising for 

 absence. Proceeding, he referred to the recent death of Her 

 Majesty the Queen, Patron of the Society, and concluded by 

 moving that the following Address be submitted to His Majesty 

 the King : — 



"We, the Royal Scottish Arbori cultural Society, humbly approach 

 your Majesty on your accession to the Throne, and desire to offer our 

 respectful condolence with yourself, the Queen Consort, and the other 

 members of the Royal Family in the irreparable loss you and they 

 have sustained by the lamented death of our revered Queen Victoria. 

 Throughout her long reign Her Majesty devoted herself to the welfare 

 of her people, who have not under any previous reign enjoyed pros- 

 perity, happiness, and contentment such as she by her wisdom and 

 justice secured to them. Her name and her example will be affection- 

 ately cherished by generations of subjects in all parts of the vast Empire 

 which your Majesty is now called to govern. 



"We desire to express to your Majesty our loyal and respectful good 

 wishes, and our trust that you may long be spared to occupy the Throne 

 of your august mother, our late lamented Queen, in whose footsteps you 

 have graciously declared it to be your intention to walk. 



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