44 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



that the following gentlemen he appointed a Committee with 

 power to add to their number, and to draw up Rules and 

 Regulations, viz.: 



President, Mr Brown, Deputy Surveyor, Dean Forest. 

 Vice-President, Mr M'Corquodale, Scone. 

 Secretary, Jas. Alexander, Nursery & Seedsman, Edinr. 

 Treasurer, Mr Anderson, Perth. 

 Committee — Mr Taylor, Camperdown. 

 Mr Balden. 

 Mr Cowan, 



Mr M'Laren, Hopetoun. 

 Mr Forbes. 

 Mr M'Donald. 

 Mr Thomson, Chopwell. 

 Mr M'Laren, Shaw Park. 

 Mr Gardiner. 

 Mr Rutherford. 

 Mr Balden, Bywell. 

 Mr Campbell, Alloa House. 

 Mr Thomson, Culhorn. 

 Mr M'Cleish, Alnwick. 



It was agreed at the meeting that the objects the association 

 has in view should be published in the Gardeners' Chronicle 

 and other Horticultural periodicals, and to solicit the co-operation 

 of all those interested in the scheme, and the meeting adjourned 

 to meet again on an early day in May next. 



James Brown, President." 

 They would have noticed that the credit for the proposal to 

 form this Society was given to the late Mr Thomson of Chop- 

 well, whom a few of them remembered as a regular attender 

 at the meetings of the Society many years ago. But he could 

 give them still further information, and it was this, that when Mr 

 Thomson was leaving home to attend the meeting in connection 

 with Mr Brown's presentation, it was suggested to him by one 

 of his own assistants, who took advantage of the opportunity, 

 to propose the formation of such a Society as this. He thought 

 they were extremely fortunate in having present with them 

 that evening the young assistant, in the person of their friend, 

 Mr Grant Thomson, who was now the father ^ of the Society. 



' This honour is shared by Sir John Ramsden, Bart., who became a member 

 in the same year as Mr Thomson. 



