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INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, EDINBURGH, 1886. 



The Scottish Arboricultural Society's Exhibits. 



Award : — Diploma of Honour. 



The Council of the Scottish Arboricultural Society resolved to 

 contribute a selection of the valuable and interesting articles which 

 it had acquired from time to time, especially at the close of the 

 Forestry Exhibition, 1884, to the International Exhibition of 

 Industry, Science, and Art, held at Edinburgh in 1886. Applica- 

 tion was made for the necessary space, which the Executive Council 

 of the International Exhibition freely granted in the interests of 

 Forest Science. An eligible site, in a very convenient position in 

 Court 13, was set apart for the purpose. There the Society made 

 an attractive and highly interesting display of the many rare, 

 curious, and valuable specimens, of which it had become possessed 

 during a series of years, and from a great variety of sources at 

 home and abroad, chiefly with a view of forming a Forestry 

 Museum. The space was laid out in the form of a small Court, 

 No. 394 ; and the various articles were eflfectively arranged on 

 Stands, or displayed on the walls of the Court, where they were 

 seen and examined with much interest by the numerous visitors to 

 the Exhibition. 



The Secretary of the Society, Mr John M'Laren, jun., or his 

 Assistant, was daily in attendance, and furnished to the Members 

 visiting the Exhibition, and to all other inquirers, the fullest par- 

 ticulars regarding the articles exhibited, as well as giving informa- 

 tion upon all topics connected with the aims and objects of the 

 Society. The great interest taken in the exhibits by the general 

 public, and the numerous questions they asked about the nature, 

 properties, and uses of the different articles, clearly showed that 

 the subject of Forestry in all its bearings has got a firm hold on 

 the mind of the public, and that the Society's efforts are being 

 appreciated by a rapidly widening circle of intelligent observers. 



So highly was the work of the Society esteemed by the Jurors, 

 that after fully examining the remarkably interesting and useful 

 display of specimens of Forest products, and articles of scientific 

 and practical interest in Forestry, they considered it worthy 

 of the highest award made at the Exhibition — a " Diploma of 

 Honour." 



