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Councillors. The Honorary Secretary, the Secretary and Treas- 

 urer, the Auditor, the Judges and Transactions Committee, the 

 Honorary Scientists, the Local Secretaries, and the Photographic 

 Artist were re-elected. 



In moving the re-election of the Transactions Committee, 

 Mr Munro Ferguson said that it was very desirable that the 

 Convener should have a permanent seat on the Council, so as to 

 be there to consult and advise with the Council, and a motion 

 was to be made to that effect, which he hoped would be agreed to 

 when it came up for settlement at next Annual Meeting. 



(The Office-Bearers and Officials for 1901 therefore stand as 

 shown in Appendix C.) 



The Raith Bursary. 



The Secretary reported that Mr Munro Ferguson's Bursary 

 of £30 per annum had been awarded by the President to 

 Mr Matthew Feaks, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, for the 

 year 1900-1901. 



Library and Museum. 



The Secretary reported that certain publications had been 

 received since the General Meeting in August last. (See 

 Appendix D.) 



Annual Excursion. 



Mr D. P. Laird formally moved that this year's Excursion be 

 held in Ayrshire. He mentioned that three days would probably 

 be spent in visiting Estates in the neighbourhood of Ayr, and 

 that a fourth day would probably be devoted to the Glasgow 

 Exhibition. The proposal was unanimously approved of, and 

 it was remitted to the Committee to make the necessary arrange- 

 ments. 



Prices of Home-Grown Timber. 



Mr D. F. Mackenzie, for the Committee which was appointed 

 at a former meeting to consider Mr Kay's suggestion for getting 

 up a table of the prices received for timber in Scotland, said they 

 had discussed the matter, by correspondence, in all its bearings. 

 They were unanimously of opinion that such information would 

 be very useful if it could be got, but thought that they were not 

 likely to get anything better than the comparative table that had 



