The Novar Working Plan. 



About 260 copies of this Working Plan, along with prospectuses of the 

 Society, were distributed amongst the landowners of the three kingdoms, 

 the immediate result being the addition of four Life Members to the roll 

 of the Society, and the manifestation in various quarters of an increased 

 interest in the systematic management of woodlands, which it is hoped 

 will in time lead to the adoption of similar working plans throughout 

 the country. 



The Transactions. 



The Transactions, of which advance copies are now on the table, are 

 bulkier, and the contents are more varied, than those of last year. As 

 promised at last meeting, an attempt has been made to improve the 

 Transactions, and it is hoped the result will be considered satisfactory, 

 especially by those Members who are unable to take part in the Society's 

 Meetings and Excursions. 



The Council. 



In consecpience of the steady increase in the Membership of the 

 Society, and its growing influence in the country, the Council consider 

 it desirable that the number of Councillors should be increased, so as to 

 give a larger number of Members of the Society a share in the manage- 

 ment of its affairs. They accordingly recommend that the number of 

 Councillors be increased from fifteen to twenty-one, that seven should 

 retire annually instead of five as at present, and that three in place 

 of two be eligible for re-election. Notice of a motion to this effect will 

 be given at to-day's meeting. This motion will be discussed and dis- 

 posed of at next Annual Meeting. 



The Address and the Dinner. 



The Council have thought it proper, considering the melancholy 

 circumstances under wbich we are met, to postpone Mr Gamble's Address 

 and to abandon the usual Dinner. 



On the motion of Mr D. F. Mackenzie, seconded by Mr 

 Methven, the Report was unanimously adopted. 



Finances of the Society. 



Mr Methven, Convener of the Finance Committee, in moving 

 the adoption of the Accounts, which had been printed and 

 circulated amongst the Members, congratulated the Society on 

 being in such a prosperous condition. 



(An Abstract of these Accounts will be found in Appendix B.) 



