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the Members present, and he and Mr Bucuanan were accordingly 
declared elected. The following Members were proposed as 
Members of Council, and unanimously elected, viz.:—James F. 
Haropte, D. F. Mackenzie, W. A. MACKENZIE, JAMES ROBERTSON, 
and D. P. Larrp. The Secretary and Treasurer and the Auditor 
were re-elected. The following were elected Judges and a 
Committee on Tvransactions:—Colonel Battey (Convener), 
Professor Baytey Batrour, Professor SomMERVILLE, MALcoLM 
Duny, JouHn Metuven, Joun Micutz, and James Kay. The 
Honorary Consulting Scientists were re-elected. The Local 
Secretaries were also re-elected, and it was intimated that the 
Council was considering as to the advisability of increasing 
the number of Local Secretaries, especially in districts remote 
from Edinburgh. Mr Grorcr Paxton, Kilmarnock, a Member 
of the Society, who photographed the groups of last year's 
Excursion, was unanimously appointed Photographic Artist. 
The Office-Bearers and Officials elected for the year 1897 were 
therefore as follows :— 
PRESIDENT. 
R. C. Munro Ferecuson, M.P., of Raith and Novar, Raith House, 
Kirkcaldy, Fife. 
VICE-PRESIDENTS., 
JAMES Morrart, 48 Castle Street, Edinburgh, d 
WiLiiAM SOMERVILLE, D.(ic., D.Sc., F.R.S.E., F.L.S., Professor of 
Agriculture and Forestry, Durham College of Science, Newcastle- 
on-Tyne. 
Colonel F. BArLey, R.E., Lecturer on Forestry, Edinburgh University. 
ALEXANDER Minne, Nurseryman and Seedsman, 32 Hanover Street, 
Edinburgh. 
CHARLES BUCHANAN, Overseer, Penicuik Estate, Penicuik. 
COUNCIL. 
JOHN CLARK, Forester, Haddo House, Aberdeen. 
JAMES Cook, Land Steward, Arniston, Gorebridge. 
Davin Kerr, Forester, Ladywell, Dankeld. 
GEORGE MAcKINNON, The Gardens, Melville Castle, Lasswade. 
W. M. We su, Nurseryman and Seedsman, 1 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, 
Matcoum Dunn, The Palace Gardens, Dalkeith. 
Joun T. M‘LAREN, Factor, Polmaise, Stirling. 
ANDREW SLATER, Land Steward, Osborne, Cowes, Isle of Wight. 
JOHN METHVEN, Nurseryman, 15 Princes Street, Edinburgh. 
ALEXANDER PITCAITHLEY, Forester, Scone Estate, Perth. 
