CONTENTS. 
The Society, as a body, is not to be considered responsible for any statements or 
opinions advanced in the several papers, which must rest entirely on the authority 
of the respective authors, 
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XIII. 
Address delivered at a General Meeting held on 16th August 
1897. By R. Munro Fercuson, M.P., President of the 
Society, . 
Forestry Education. By Dr WiL.1AM Scuticu, C.1.E., Professor 
of Forestry in the Engineering College for India, Coopers Hill, 
. Forestry in Scotland in the Reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty 
Queen Victoria. By Matcotm Dunn, The Palace Gardens, 
Dalkeith, 
. Experiments with Tree Seeds. By WILLIAM SoMERVILLE, D.Cic., 
D.Sce., F.R.S.E., F.L.S., Professor of Agriculture and cr wee 
thee Gallene of Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 
. Report by the Judges on Essays on ‘‘ The Best Form of, and the 
Best Method of Establishing, an Experimental Forest Area in 
Scotland, for the Exhibition of and for Instruction—Theoretical 
and Practical—in Scientific Forestry,” 
On Establishing an Experimental Forest Area in Scotland, for 
Instruction in the Theory and Practice of Scientific Forestry. 
By ArrHur C. Forses, Wood Manager, Bowood, Wilts 
(*‘Moon Raker”), 
On Establishing an Experimental Forest Area in Scotland, for 
Instruction in the Theory and Practice of Scientific Forestry, 
By D. F. Mackenziz, Factor, Mortonhall, Midlothian (‘‘ Nil 
Desperandum’”’), P ‘ 
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