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for the approval of the Council. Mr Younger of Benmore has 

 been kind enough to intimate that he will be very pleased if 

 the Society can arrange to visit Benmore. 



Transactions. 



The Transactions this year will appear under the editorship 

 of Dr XiSBET and Mr Richardson. The Part will include a 

 photograph of the King, who is Patron of the Society; plates 

 showing all the past Presidents of the Society, an epitome of 

 the history of the Society, an article by Dr Nisbet on Forestry 

 during the past fifty years, Reports of the Jubilee proceedings 

 and Conference, Reports of the Excursions and Exhibition, and 

 other highly interesting matter by competent writers. In con- 

 nection with the Transactions, the Council have agreed to take 

 out one French and two German magazines, so that the 

 Honorary Editor may be in a position to supply a digest of 

 forestry matters of interest which have taken place in these 

 countries during the year. The Editors report that the Part 

 in preparation will be much larger than usual, and that it 

 may be necessary to issue it as a single volume. If this is 

 done, a Title-page and Table of Contents for Vol. XVII. will be 

 appended. A general Index to the whole Transactions, to the 

 end of Vol. XVII., will also be appended. Members will there- 

 fore be able to complete Vol. XVII. after the issue of the Part 

 imder notice. The Editors further report that considerable 

 progress has been made with the Part, and they hope to be able 

 to issue it about the beginning of March. 



It may be mentioned that a suggestion was made by a Mem- 

 ber of the Society that those old Parts of the Transactions, which 

 are now out of print, should be reprinted, so as to enable 

 Members to complete their sets, but as there did not appear to 

 be an extensive demand for those back Numbers, the Committee 

 did not see their way to recommend that this expense should be 

 incurred meantime. 



Larch Disease. 



A large number of schedules for the collection of statistics 

 was issued by the Committee to those whom they thought most 

 likely to be in a position to give efficient assistance in the matter, 

 and a fair proportion of these schedules have since been returned 

 filled up. A small Committee has been appointed to go over 

 the schedules for the purpose of tabulating the information 

 received, which will then be printed in the Transactions. An 

 Investigation Committee, consisting of Dr Borthwick, the 

 Society's Hon. Cryptogamist, and Mr A. D. Richardson, the 

 Convener of the Committee, has also been appointed to visit 

 selected areas with a local Member, and to report. 



