Departmental Committee apjyointed by the Board of 

 Agriculture. 



The steps taken by the Council to lay tlie views of the Society 

 before the Committee were explained at the General Meeting in July. 

 The Committee visited Scotland in September, when a deputation of 

 the Council met them at the Edinburgh University, and gave them all the 

 information in their power regarding the facilities for Forestry instruction 

 existing in Scotland. The Committee's Report has now been issued. 

 As already mentioned, it will be printed in the Transactions, and 

 will thus soon be in the possession of all Members of the Society. 



Larch Disease. 

 In compliance with the remit from the last Annual Meeting on the 

 subject of Larch Disease, the Council have made some progress in the 

 matter. A preliminary Committee having reported that Hartig's book 

 is still the leading authority on the subject, and having recommended 

 that further investigations should be made, a large and representative 

 Committee was appointed, with instructions to prepare a Scheme of 

 Procedure. This Committee having reported that they proposed, as a 

 preliminary step, to collect statistics as to the prevalence of the disease, 

 and particulars as to the circumstances and conditions under which it 

 is found in various localities in Scotland, they have been authorised to 

 proceed with this inquiry. The articles printed in the coming Part 

 of the Transactions will be helpful to Members of the Society in their 

 efforts to assist the Committee in their investigations. 



Forestry Dxhibition at Aberdeen. 



The space kindly set apart by the Highland and Agricultural Society 

 for the Forestry Exhibition in their Show-ground, at Aberdeen, was 

 fully occupied by interesting exhibits. There were 34 entries in the 

 Catalogue, — a substantial increase as compared with those of last year. 

 The exhibits included the Society's own Lantern Slides of Plant 

 Physiology and Wood Sections, which were exhibited mounted in card- 

 board. The Exhibition appeared to excite much interest, as it was 

 crowded during the four days of the Show. Much of the success which 

 attended it was due to the untiring efforts of the Local Secretaries, 

 Mr James Wilson, B.Sc, late of the Department of Agriculture 

 at Aberdeen University, now of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, 

 and Mr John Clark, Forester, Haddo House. These gentlemen have 

 sent in a report, which will be of service in connection with future 

 Exhibitions. 



The Highland and Agricultural Society has not only granted facilities 

 for a similar Exhibition to be held, this year, in their Showyard at 

 Dumfries, but has generously voted a sum of ^20 to this Society, 

 to be expended on prizes for home-grown timber exhibited there. The 



