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Conference and Exhibition. 



The Meeting approved of the Council's suggestion, that the 

 Conference should be held at Perth in connection with the 

 Exhibition, and that a two days'" Excursion should be organised 

 in connection with it. 



Departmental Committee's Report. 



The President, on behalf of the Society, submitted the 

 following Resolution, which was seconded by Mr A. Pitcaithley, 

 and was passed unanimously, namely : — 



" That it is the opinion of the Members of the Royal Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society, assembled in Annual Meeting, that the 

 Board of Agriculture should now take steps to give effect to 

 the recommendations of the Departmental Committee on Forestry, 

 as far as regards Scotland, by providing an Estate to serve as 

 a State Forest Demonstration Area, and also by providing 

 Example Plots in connection with Edinburgh University : and 

 further, that Forestry Education in this countr}- will not be 

 adequately provided for until the foregoing are supplied, and 

 a thoroughly equipped Forest School is established in Scotland."' 



It was agreed that a copy of the Resolution should be sent 

 to the President of the Board of Agriculture, the Commissioner 

 of Woods and Forests, the Secretary for Scotland, and to the 

 Societies and Institutions that sent delegates to the Meeting. 

 The delegates present were also invited to bring the subject 

 before their respective Societies. 



Excursion to France. 



Mr Laird moved that the Council's suggestion that the 

 Excursion might be divided into two parts should be carried 

 out, and this was agreed to. 



Railway Rates. 



The President invited Members and others to send in parti- 

 culars of any cases of injustice which came under their notice, 

 so that they might be tabulated and sent to the Board of 

 Agriculture. 



