THE society's JUBILEE DINNER. 4I 



opportunity of asking the favour of your kindly delivering my 

 greetings and a message to the Council of the Society. I have 

 now in preparation for Messrs Blackwood a seventh edition of 

 The Forester, which it is hoped will be published before the end 

 of the year, and which will be re-arranged, altered, and added to 

 so as to try and supply the want that still exists for a good 

 practical text-book on British Forestry. If desirable to the 

 Council and Members, it will give me great pleasure to dedicate 

 this new work ^ to the Society on the occasion of this their year 

 of jubilee. — Yours truly, John Nisbet." 



I presume you will authorise me to answer the latter 

 communication, and to thank Mr Nisbet in your name for 

 dedicating his new book to this Society. I do not know that 

 there is anything more I can say, excepting to thank you for the 

 honour you have done me in re-electing me President of this 

 Society. I hope we shall have many meetings together, both 

 for business and pleasure. I thank you very much for coupling 

 my name with this toast. 



Mr Buchanan, Penicuik, proposed the toast of " Kindred 

 Societies," remarking that they were all delighted to see so many 

 kindred societies represented. There were representatives 

 present from the Royal Horticultural Society, the Royal 

 Agricultural Society, the English Arboricultural Society, the 

 Irish Forestry Society, the Royal Caledonian Horticultural 

 Society, the Scottish Horticultural Association, and the High- 

 land and Agricultural Society of Scotland. All these societies 

 took a great interest in the work of fostering arboriculture. 

 They cordially thanked the representatives of these kindred 

 societies for their presence on that interesting occasion. He 

 coupled the toast with the names of Sir Ralph Anstruther for 

 the Highland and Agricultural Society, and Mr John Davidson 

 for the English Arboricultural Society. 



Sir Ralph Anstruther, in reply, said they were pleased to call 

 the Highland and Agricultural Society a kindred society. He 

 ventured to think that the connection was even closer than 

 kindred. They were bone and flesh of the same stock, because 



^ As, after the commencement of the revision of The Forester, it was found 

 that even extensive alterations would not answer the present I'equirements for 

 such a text-book as contemplated, an almost entirely new work has been 

 prepared. This will appear during the spring of 1905, and it is hoped that it 

 will serve the same purposes for which our Society exists. — Hon. Ed. 



