THE ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1854-I904. IQ 



Plots, come under the control of the Scottish office; 

 (3) that purely Experimental Work and Research fall 

 within the province of the Board of Agriculture. A 

 Conference was held, under the auspices of the Society, 

 between representatives from the Universities and 

 Agricultural Colleges in Scotland and Sir Henry 

 Craik, on behalf of the Scottish Education Department, 

 when Sir Henry invited the representatives to submit 

 their schemes for Forestry Education, which he promised 

 to investigate. The Council afterwards passed the 

 following resolution, which was sent to the Secretary 

 for Scotland and Sir Henry Craik: — "That, in the 

 •opinion of the Council of the Royal Scottish Arbori- 

 cultural Society, the existing administrative machinery 

 is insufficient to develop a full course of instruction in 

 •Sylviculture in Scotland, and that it is essential to 

 make adequate provision to attain that end." Confer- 

 •ence at Perth on 22nd July, at which Forestry 

 Education was discussed. Forestry Exhibition held by 

 .'Society in connection with Highland and Agricultural 

 Society's Show at Perth; ^20 granted in Prizes by 

 latter Society for Timber grown in Scotland. Earl 

 of Mansfield, Dr Wm. Somerville, Colonel F. Bailey, 

 J. Grant Thomson, D. F. Mackenzie, and James Kay, 

 •elected Honorary Members. Dr John Nisbet appointed 

 Honorary Editor, and A. D. Richardson Assistant Editor 

 of Transactions. Excursions in Perthshire and France. 



