"Your Majesty has shown a warm interest in the objects of this 

 Society, which our late Queen honoured by becoming its patron, and 

 the prosperity of which we feel assured you will desire. 



" We humbly ask permission to offer our respectful good wishes to 

 Her Majesty the Queen Consort, who as Princess of Wales has endeared 

 herself to all classes of your Majesty's subjects. 



Signed — Mansfield, President. 



„ R. Munro Ferguson, Honorary Secretary. 

 „ R. Galloway, Secretary." 



The Address was unanimously adopted. 



Minutes. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting, held on 7th August last, 

 which had been printed, were held as read, and approved of. 



Election of Honorary Member. 



The Chairman next moved the election of Mr James Sykes 

 Gamble, M.A., CLE., F.R.S., F.L.S., as an Honorary Member 

 of the Society. 



He reminded the meeting that Mr Gamble was an ex-member 

 of the Indian Forest Service, who had been Director of the 

 Indian Forest School, Editor of the Indian Forester, and the 

 Author of the Manual of Indian Timbers, with other important 

 works. 



Mr Munro Ferguson, M.P., seconded the motion, which was 

 unanimously adopted. 



Election of Honorary Associate Members. 



In terms of a Resolution passed at last Annual Meeting, the 

 Chairman submitted the names of Fraser Story, Assistant 

 Factor, The Glen, Innerleithen, and T. Alexander Crombie, 

 Forester, Monreitb, Wigtownshire, Senior Students at the 

 University Forestry Class in 1899 and 1900 respectively, for 

 appointment as Honorary Associate Members. The motion was 

 seconded, and unanimously agreed to. 



Annual Report of Council. 



Mr Robert Galloway, S.S.C., the Seci-etary, submitted and 

 read the Annual Report of the Council, as follows : — 



