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Place of Meeting. 



With regard to the recommeradation by the Council that 

 the Annual Meeting should be held at Perth next year, Mr 

 PiTCAiTHLEY movcd, and Mr Hay seconded, that this recom- 

 mendation be given effect to. Mr A. Milne moved, and 

 Mr James Kay seconded, that the Annual Meeting be held in 

 Edinburgh as hitherto. On a vote being taken, Mr Milne's 

 motion was carried by a large majority. 



Adoption of the Council's Report. 



Sir Kenneth Mackenzie then moved the adoption of the 

 Report. He expressed the satisfaction with which the Council 

 had seen the increase in the Membership, which denoted an 

 increase of interest taken in Forestry in this country. He 

 thought that was a very satisfactory thing. They all most 

 urgently hoped that funds might be obtained and an estate 

 bought, in which a State-aided School for the instruction of 

 young foresters might be established, and that growing trees 

 upon a forest system, apart from the system on which many 

 people grew their woods — which was for pleasure, appearance, 

 and shooting — might be established in this country. 



The Report, as amended by the foregoing discussion, was 

 unanimously agreed to. 



Finances. 



Mr John Methven, Edinburgh, Convener of the Finance 

 Committee, formally submitted the Abstract of the Accounts, 

 which had already been printed and circulated amongst the 

 Members. (An Abstract of the Accounts will be found in 

 Appendix A.) 



Mr Methven pointed out that the income from all sources, 

 exclusive of the balance brought forward, was ;^4ii, 5s. 3d., 

 and the expenditure, ^264, 14s. id., leaving a balance of 

 ^146, IIS. 2d. The balance of Revenue carried forward last 

 year was ^^329, 3s. iid., whereof they had carried to Capital 

 jC2']6, is. yd., and the amount carried forward was ^^199, 13s. 6d. 

 Out of this sum fell to be paid the cost of the Transactmis, etc., 

 leaving a net balance belonging to the Society of about ;^9o. 

 By transferring the ^276, is. yd. of surplus Revenue to the 



