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KOYAL SCOTTISH AKBOlUCULTUIiAL SOCIETY. 



XXI. Address delivered at tlie Thirty-sixth Annual Meetiuf/, 

 iith August, 18(S9. By William M'Corquodale, Scone, 

 Vice-President. 



Gentlemen, — We all deeply regret that our esteemed President, 

 the Right Honourable the Earl of Hopetoun, is unable, owing to 

 other engagements, to act as Chairman of this meeting. It has 

 therefore become my duty, as senior Vice-President, to act in his 

 stead. While gratefully acknowledging your kindness in placing 

 me in this honourable position, I cannot but deplore the loss 

 and disappointment which the Society has sustained through 

 his Lordship's absence. For had the President been able to 

 take the chair to-day, I am certain that he would have delivered 

 an address that must have not only been powerful and eloquent, 

 but would have greatly advanced the interests of this Society. 

 I beg, gentlemen, that you will kindly bear with me while I 

 make the following brief opening remarks. 



This is now the Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of our Society. 

 It may be interesting to many of you to know that the Society 

 was established on the occasion of Mr James Brown, author of 

 "Brown's Forester," being entertained to a complimentary dinner 

 at Edinburgli on the 17th February 1854, prior to his entering 

 on the duties of Deputy- Survey or of Dean Forest, Gloucestershii-e. 

 After dinner on that occasion, the subject of the propriety of 

 forming an Arboricultural Society was broached and fully dis- 

 cussed by those present. Mr W^m. Thomson, Deputy-Surveyor 



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