Report by the Council. 



The Secretary was then called upon by the President to read 

 the Report by the Council, as follows : — 



Jubilee. 



It was reported to the General Meeting in July last, that in 

 connection with the Jubilee of the Society, a Conference, for the 

 purpose of discussing the Report of the recent Departmental 

 Committee on Forestry, would be held in Edinburgh as on this 

 date, in addition to the usual Annual Meeting and Dinner. It 

 was afterwards found, however, that owing to the opening of 

 Parliament, Lord Onslow, President of the Board of Agriculture ; 

 Lord Mansfield, Mr Munro Ferguson, Mr Stafford Howard, and 

 others, would be unable to attend, and the Council accordingly 

 decided to postpone the Conference, and at once took steps 

 to secure Mr Fraser Story to deliver the lecture on German 

 Forestry which has been announced. They hope that an 

 interesting discussion will follow the lecture. 



The Council now recommend that the Conference be held at Perth 

 in July, in connection with the Society's Exhibition of Forestry 

 in the Highland and Agricultural Society's Showyard there, 

 and they propose to arrange for a short Excursion to Dunkeld^ 

 Murthly, and Scone at the same time. 



Membership. 



It is gratifying to be able to report that there has been a 

 considerable addition to the Membership in the course of the 

 year, in spite of numerous losses through deaths, resignations, 

 and lapses. Amongst the deaths intimated were those of Sir 

 James Campbell and Sir Robert Menzies, both Honorary Members 

 of the Society, and of the Earl of Stair, Sir Wyndham Carmichael 

 Anstruther, Mr C. L. Orr-Ewing, M.P., Mr David Keir, Lady well, 

 and Mr John Allan, Dalmeny. 



It is with much regret that the Council have also to announce 

 the death, on 12th December last, of Mr Andrew Boa, Great 

 Thurlow, Suffolk, the oldest Member of the Society. 



At last Annual Meeting the Membership was 955. One 

 hundred and twenty-four new Members have been admitted in 

 the course of the year, but 63 have been removed owing to the 

 causes mentioned above, making a net gain of 61 Members and 

 a total of 1016, made up as follows : — 



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