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College of Agriculture have appointed Mr Fraser Story, 

 Lecturer on Forestry to the College, and he is now delivering a 

 course of lectures in Fife and in Berwickshire, to large audiences. 

 Progress in connection with Forestry education has also been 

 made in England, at the Agricultural College of Cirencester, and 

 at the Forest of Dean. H.M. Commissioners of Woods and 

 Forests, and the Board of Agriculture, are understood to be in 

 full sympathy with the Society's desire for the establishment of a 

 Demonstration State Forest in Scotland ; and the Board of Agri- 

 culture have already taken up the matter of the afforestation of 

 the Water Supply Catchment-areas belonging to municipalities, 

 regarding which the Society has distributed literature to the 

 large municipalities in Scotland. It is understood that the 

 municipalities of Edinburgh and Dundee have the matter 

 under consideration. The Members will have an opportunity of 

 discussing the Committee's Report at the Conference in July, 

 and it is hoped that by then further progress may have been 

 made. Meantime a resolution on the subject will be submitted 

 for approval to-day. 



Larch Disease. 



The Committee on the Larch Disease have found some 

 difficulty in arranging the details of the Schedule which they 

 propose to issue with the view of collecting statistics, but the 

 Schedule is now in proof, and it is expected that it will be issued 

 before long to those who are most likely to be in a position to 

 supply the information desired. 



Forestry Exhibitions. 



It was rather disappointing to find that the Exhibition at 

 Dumfries was not so well patronised by Exhibitors as those 

 held at Aberdeen and Inverness, even although, on this occasion, 

 prizes were offered for various exhibits. There were only 7 

 Members who sent articles for exhibition, and 1 2 who entered in 

 the prize section. The Judges were Mr James Cook, Arniston, 

 and Mr A. T. Gillanders, Forester, Alnwick Castle, and they 

 awarded J[^^ out of the ;^2o voted by the Highland and Agri- 

 cultural Society, and 6 Medals — three of which were No. i Silver 

 Medals and three No. 2 Silver Medals. A full Report of the 

 Exhibition will be found at page 314 of last year's Transactions. 



The Highland and Agricultural Society have again granted 

 space for an Exhibition m their Showyard at Perth, and have 

 also renewed their vote of ;^2o for prizes for home-grown 

 timber exhibited at that Exhibition. The circulars in connection 

 with the Exhibition have been issued to the Members. It will 

 be observed that this year the Council have decided to repay, if 

 asked, railway carriage and charges for delivering into and 

 removing from the Showyard of the articles sent for Exhibition 



