a cheque for ;^io to be expended in providing a lantern and 

 other equipment. In acknowledging the gift, Colonel Bailey 

 said, " The lantern will form a most valuable addition to my 

 most scanty teaching apparatus, and will add much to enable 

 jne to give efficient instruction to my students." 



Judges and Transactions Committee. 



By the Laws this Committee should be appointed at the 

 Annual Meeting, but at last Annual Meeting the Council were 

 not in a position to recommend a Convener and Honorary 

 Editor, and the matter was, therefore, remitted to the Council, 

 who reappointed the Committee and made the Secretary 

 Convener for the time. Afterwards it was intimated that Dr 

 NiSBET had agreed to act as Honorary Editor, provided he 

 received an Assistant, and he was accordingly appointed to. that 

 position, with Mr A. D. Richardson as paid Assistant Editor. 

 The latter accordingly resigned his position as a member of the 

 Council. 



Council. 



After his election at the Jubilee Meeting, Sir Robert 

 MoNCREiFFE intimated that he was not in a position to accept 

 office, and Mr A. D. Richardson having resigned his seat, there 

 were two vacancies on the Council. To these vacancies the 

 Council appointed Colonel Bailey and Dr Borthwick, and their 

 election was duly confirmed by the General Meeting, which was 

 held at Perth. 



Forestry Education. 



It will be in the recollection of those Members who were 

 present at the Jubilee Meeting last year, that a resolution was 

 passed at that Meeting calling upon the Board of Agriculture 

 to take steps to give immediate effect to the recommendation 

 of the Departmental Committee on Forestry, as far as regards 

 Scotland, by providing a demonstration area and example plots, 

 and expressing the opinion that Forestry Education in Scotland 

 would not be adequately provided for until these were supplied, 

 and a thoroughly equipped Forest School established in Scotland. 

 This resolution was forwarded to the President of the Board 

 of Agriculture, the Commissioner of Woods and Forests, and the 

 Secretary for Scotland, and also to the Societies and Institutions 

 that had sent delegates to the Meeting. The resolution was 

 acknowledged by the various public departments mentioned, and 

 further communications were entered into with them on the 

 subject. These negotiations brought out the following points : — 

 {First) that a State Forest will be provided through the Office 

 of Woods and Forests if an area suitable for the purpose can 

 be obtained ; {Second) that Forestry Education and Forestry 



