Aoval Scottish Arboricultural Society. 
Instituted 16th February 1854. 
PATRON. 
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. 
The Forty-third Annual General Meeting of the Royal Scottish 
Arboricultural Society was held in the Hall, 14 Sourn Sr 
ANDREW STREET, EDINBURGH, on Wednesday, 29th January 1896, 
at 2.30 p.m. KR. C. Munro Frercuson, Esq. of Raith and Novar, 
President of the Society, occupied the Chair. 
MINUTES. 
The Minutes of the General Meeting of the Society, held on 
26th July 1895, which had been printed and circulated amongst 
the Members, were held as read, and unanimously approved of. 
ELECTION OF New MEMBERS. 
The election of the following thirty-seven Candidates for 
Membership, whose names had previously been submitted to the 
Council, was duly confirmed, viz.:— 
Life Members. 
BALVArIRD, The Honourable Lord, Scone Palace, Perth. 
Brown, Rev. W. Wallace, Minister of Alness, Ross-shire. 
CARMICHAEL, Sir Thos. D. Gibson, Bart. of Castlecraig, Dolphinton, 
Peeblesshire. 
MILER, Sir James Percy, Bart. of Manderston, Duns, Berwickshire. 
Murray, William Hugh, W.S., 48 Castle Street, Edinburgh. 
Or 
Ordinary Members. 
BETHUNE, William, Grocer, Lundin Mill, Fife. 
Buist, David, Assistant Forester, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 
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