Malcolm Dunn Memorial. 



At the General Meeting in August, Mr Baxter, Dalkeith Park, 

 mentioned that great disappointment had been expressed by Mr Dunn's 

 friends and admirers in Dalkeith and district because more money had 

 not been expended on the monument. The Council accordingly 

 brought the complaint before the other Societies interested, and 

 suggested that the original Joint Committee should be re-appointed 

 to investigate the matter, with instructions to employ an expert, if 

 necessary, to advise them, and to report. The Joint Committee has 

 been re-appointed, and it is anticipated that the result of their labours 

 will be the removal of any further cause for complaint. 



Forestry Education. 



At the August meeting it was also mentioned that there was the 

 possibility of the Indian Forest School at Coopers Hill being removed 

 to some other centre, and that a remit had been made to Mr Ferguson, 

 Hon. Secretary, and Colonel Bailey, to prepare for the approval of 

 the Council a draft memorial, to be presented to the Board of Agri- 

 culture, setting forth the claims of Edinburgh as a suitable centre. It 

 was afterwards found, however, that the Government of India had 

 decided not to make any change, and it was therefore unnecessary to 

 proceed with the proposed memorial. The Council is now considering 

 whether anything can be done with the view of introducing some 

 elementary facts regarding forestry into the curriculum of the Board 

 and other schools under the Code. 



International Congress on Sylviculture at Paris. 



The first International Congress on Sylviculture was held in Paris in 

 June last in connection with the Exhibition. The Council, though 

 invited to do so, did not think it necessary to send representatives to 

 the Congress, but arranged with Mr Gamble to write the report, which 

 appears in the Transactions. 



Glasgow International Exhibition. 



It was reported at last Annual Meeting that the negotiations with 

 the authorities of the Glasgow Exhibition on the subject of securing 

 space for Forestry Exhibits, and representation on the Committee, had 

 been very unsatisfactory, and that consequently it had been decided to 

 allow the matter to drop. In November last, a letter was received from 

 Messrs A. Cross & Son, asking whether the Society would apply for 

 space in a proposed agricultural pavilion to be erected at the Exhibition, 

 if sufficient applications for space were received. The Council considered 

 that it was then too late to think of preparing exhibits, and Messrs 

 Cross were informed that we did not propose to re-open negotiations. 



