TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
VII. Address delivered at a General Meeting held on 16th August 
1897. By R. Munro Fereuson, M.P., President of the 
Society. 
I find myself called upon once more to rise like some hardy 
perennial which owes something like an apology for continued 
reappearance in exactly the same place. It is therefore some 
consolation to find so many giants of the forest about me, and to 
be able to report to the general meeting that the Royal Scottish 
Arboricultural Society is growing well. 
Our printed Zransactions maintain their high excellence, to 
which we are recently and largely indebted to Professor Schlich, who 
gave us so admirablean address. Our next volume should include 
a portion of the ‘‘ Essays on Forestry Education,” plus a criticism 
on them by Professor Somerville. Then, to look farther ahead, 
as it is understood that a working plan has been drafted recently 
for the Forest of Dean by an eminent member of H.M. Indian 
Forest Department, and that it is likely to be put into immediate 
operation, I would suggest that we invite its author to give us an 
account of these proposals at our winter meeting. Many of the 
scientific foresters who have lately come to Scotland have observed 
the absence of working plans in estate management. An address 
therefore from this officer, whom I had the pleasure to meet, 
upon the first regular plan of the kind made in this island, would 
be of great value for our publications, as well as a pleasure to 
those who hear it. 
It must be the desire of us all to maintain our printed Z7ans- 
actions at a high level, since it is through them that we appeal 
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