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Instituted 16th February 1854. 



PATRON. 



HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY THE KING. 



PROCEEDINGS IN 1904. 



THE JUBILEE MEETING. 



The Jubilee Meeting of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society was held in the Hall of the Young Men's Christian 

 Association, 14 South St Andrew Street, Edinburgh, on Tuesday, 

 1 6th February 1904, at 2 p.m. W. Steuart Fothringham, Esq. 

 of Murthly, President of the Society, occupied the chair, and there 

 was a large attendance of Members from all parts of the United 

 Kingdom. 



Apolog[es for Absence. 



The Secretary mentioned that owing to the recent opening 

 of Parliament, a number of those invited to the meeting had been 

 unable to attend. He intimated that letters of apology for 

 absence had been received from the following: — The Right Hon. 

 the Earl of Onslow, President of the Board of Agriculture ; 

 The Secretary for Scotland : The Right Honourable the Earl of 

 Mansfield ; The Right Honourable Lord Avebury ; R. C. Munro 

 Ferguson, M.P., Honorary Secretary; Sir John F. L. Rolleston, 

 M.P. ; E. Stafford Howard, C.B., Commissioner of Woods and 

 Forests and Land Revenues; Professor Schlich, CLE., Coopers 

 Hill; Professor J. R. Campbell, B.Sc, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Ireland; J. Herbert Lewis, M.P.; Sir Joseph Hooker; 

 Professor Sargent, Harvard University, U.S.A.; Professor 

 Schwappach, Eberswalde, Prussia; Jagmastare Xilson, Sweden; 

 J. Sykes Gamble, CLE.; Professor Fisher, Coopers Hill; and 

 Dr John Nisbet, D.CEc. 



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