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Cuass II. 
I. On the Planting and Management of Hedges. (Motto, 
“White Thorn.”) By James Guiuuespiz, Lochton 
Lodge, Inchture. 
Award, a Bronze MeDAL. 
Excursion 1n 1898, 
Mr Dunn, Convener of the Excursion Committee, reported 
that the general feeling of the Council appeared to be in favour 
of the postponement for another year of the proposed Excursion 
to Scandinavia or France, and the matter was again remitted to 
the Council for further consideration. 
LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. 
The Secretary reported that the following presentations had 
been made since the Annual General Meeting in January last :— 
List OF PRESENTATIONS TO THE SOCIETY’s LIBRARY. 
1. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, London, vol. 
viii., parts 1 and 2. 
bo 
. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, London, vol. 
xx., part 3. 
3. Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894. 
4, Transactions of the Edinburgh Botanical Society, vol. xx., 
parts 2 and 3. 
5. Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 
vol, ix., part 2. 
6. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 
1895, part 3; 1896, part 2. 
7. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture, Nova Scotia, 
1896. 
8. Agricultural Returns from the Board of Agriculture, 1896. 
9. Leaflets on Rabies and Celery Fly. Board of Agriculture, 
1896. 
10. Reports of Conservators of Forests, Cape of Good Hope, 
1896. 
11. Two Papers on Forestry, by Hon. John D, Lyman, New 
Hampshire, 1895 and 1897. ‘ 
12. Paper on Indian Forestry, by Sir Dietrich Brandis. 
