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facilities for taking advantage of the Society in all respects. 

 He was desired, in continuation of the report which had been 

 made as to the interview so kindly granted by Mr Hanbury a 

 few months ago, to announce the following note, which would 

 appear in the Transactions of the Society: — ""We are authorised 

 to say that it is Mr Hanbury's intention to appoint a Depart- 

 mental Committee to inquire into and report as to the present 

 position and future prospects of forestry, and the planting and 

 management of woodlands in the United Kingdom, and to con- 

 sider whether any further measures may with advantage be 

 taken, either by the provision of further educational facilities or 

 otherwise, for their promotion and encouragement. Mr Munro 

 Ferguson, M.P., has been invited, and has consented, to act as 

 Chairman of the Committee." The Chairman pointed out that 

 the work of the Committee referred to the United Kingdom, 

 which included Ireland, and that, therefore, whoever Mr Munro 

 Ferguson got to act with him, would have a considerable amount 

 of globe-trotting before they effected their object. They heard 

 a good deal about the need in Ireland for more trees, and those 

 of them who had gone to Ireland knew how painfully deficient 

 that country was in woodlands. As they all believed that the 

 planting of trees was one of the essentials of success in human 

 life, it was to be hoped that the result of the Departmental 

 Committee would be not only to the advantage of England and 

 Scotland, but to the advantage of the sister country of Ireland 

 as well. 



Election of Office-Bearers. 



Office-Bearers in room of those who retired by rotation were 

 elected as follows : — The Earl of Mansfield was re-elected 

 President : Lord Lovat and John Methven, J. P., Edinburgh, 

 were elected Yice-Presidents • and John Boyd, Forester, Pollok 

 Estate, Pollokshaws, Glasgow ; James Forgan, Forester, Bon- 

 skeid, Pitlochry; George Eraser, Factor, Dalzell, Motherwell; 

 D. P. Laird, Nurseryman, Pinkhill, Murrayfield ; and William 

 MacKinnon, Nurseryman, 144 Princes Street, Edinburgh, were 

 elected to the Council. The Honorary Secretary, the Secretary 

 and Treasurer, the Auditor, the Judges and Transactio?is Com- 

 mittee, the Local Secretaries, and the Photographic Artist were 

 re-appointed. Mr A. W. Borthwick, B.Sc, Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Edinburgh, was appointed Honorary Consulting Cryptogamist 



