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8. Agricultural Returns—Statistical Tables, 1896. Board of 
Agriculture, 
9. Leaflets on Surface Caterpillars and Woolly Aphis or 
American Blight. Board of Agriculture. 
10. The Forester: Brown and Nisbet. Blackwood & Sons, 
Edinburgh. 
Note.—Members may borrow from the Secretary any of the Books or 
Pamphlets belonging to the Society, provided they pay the cost of trans- 
mission, and guarantee their safe return within a reasonable time. 
EXCURSION IN 1897, 
Mr Dunn, Dalkeith, reported the recommendation of the 
Council, that the Excursion this year should be held in Ireland. 
He explained that it was proposed to visit the places of interest 
in and around Dublin, and afterwards Powerscourt, Coollattin, 
and other places in County Wicklow, and probably Killarney. 
The recommendation was approved of, and the matter was 
remitted to the Council with powers. 
Forestry EDUCATION. 
At the close of the business, Dr Witu1Am Scuticna, Professor 
of Forestry in the Engineering College for India, Coopers Hill, 
Surrey, delivered an Address on “Forestry Education” a full 
Report of which will be found in the Z'ransactions. 
Vores or THANKS. 
Votes of thanks were heartily accorded to Dr Scuuicu for 
his Address, and to the President for presiding. 
THE ANNUAL DINNER. 
The Annual Dinner was held in the Royal British Hotel the 
same evening. Mr Munro Fereuson, M.P., the President of 
the Society, was Chairman, and Colonel Battey, Vice-President, 
was Croupier. The guests of the Society were Dr Scuuica; 
Rev. Dr Paut; Bailie Kintoch ANpEerson; Mr WILLIAM 
ANDERSON, Treasurer of the Edinburgh Water Trust; County 
Councillor Joun Dossier; Mr JAmMEs MAcDONALD, Secretary, High- 
land and Agricultural Society ; Mr Isaac ConnELL, Secretary of the 
Scottish Chamber of Agriculture; and Mr D. Youne, Editor of 
the North British Agriculturist. The company numbered about 
