8 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



of the Annual General Meeting of the Scottish Society held on 

 6th October of that year the following entry occurs : — " It was 

 agreed that all Essays read before the Brechin Arboricultural 

 Society, or other local Societies, shall be submitted to a Special 

 Committee of the Scottish Arboricultural Society, and sanctioned 

 by them, previous to being published in the Society's Trans- 

 actions ;'' and in an essay on "Thinning and General Manage- 

 ment of Forest Trees," by a writer who signed himself " Justitia," 

 which was awarded a silver medal at the meeting on 6th October 

 1858, and was subsequently published in the Transactions^ the 

 writer states that "Arboricultural Societies are now instituted in 

 Edinburgh, Brechin, and Peebles, and from these I hope much 

 good may emanate."' These are apparently the last references 

 to the Brechin Society which occur in the records of the Scottish 

 Society, and it is probable that soon after this time it came 

 to an end. 



Of other local Arboricultural Societies, with the solitary 

 exception of that at Peebles, referred to by "Justitia" in his 

 essay, no record seems to exist. How long the Peebles Society 

 continued to exist is not known, but it is probable that, as 

 in the case of the Brechin Society, its career was not of long 

 duration. 



Principal Events in the History of the Society. 



1854. The Society founded. James Brown, author of The 



Forester^- elected first President. 



1855. Constitution and Laws adopted at Annual Meeting. 



Addresses on the Aims and Objects of the Society 

 delivered by the President and Wm. Thomson. Sub- 

 scriptions fixed at — Foresters, los. 6d. ; Under Foresters, 

 5s. Medals offered for Essays. Five Vice-Presidents 

 first elected. Members admitted on payment of first 

 Subscription. E. J. Ravenscroft appointed Auditor. 



1856. Transactions first published. First issue of complete List 



of Members. Subscriptions fixed at — Amateurs and 



^ Vol. II. p. 3. This essay must, of course, have been written before 

 1st August 1858, the date on which essays for compelition were to be sent 

 to the Secretary. 



'^ The first edition of The Forester was published in 1847, Mr Brown 

 then being forester at Arniston, Midlothian. 



