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13. Abstract of Meteorological Observations made at Rothesay, 
by James Kay, Bute. 
14. Two Pamphlets, on Wheat Experiments and Tuberculin 
Test, by Department of Agriculture, Victoria. 
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. 
Notices oF Morton. 
Mr Dunyy, on behalf of the Oouncil, gave notice of the following 
motions, which will fall to be discussed at next Meeting :— 
1. That the Council be empowered to decide the class under 
which any Candidate for Membership shall be placed. 
2. That the Council be empowered to appoint Correspondents 
in any part of the world. 
ForESTRY IN SCOTLAND DURING THE SIxty YEARS OF 
THE QUEEN’S REIGN. 
Mr Duyn read a Paper on this subject, which is printed in 
full in the Z’ransactions. 
THe Queen’s DIAMOND JUBILEE. 
The President read the Congratulatory Address which had 
been presented to Her Majesty the Queen, on the occasion of 
her Diamond Jubilee, and the Royal acknowledgment which 
had been received, as follows :— 
To the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty. 
May it please your Majesty, we, your Majesty’s most faithful 
and loyal subjects, the Members of the Royal Scottish Arboricul- 
tural Society, venture, with profound respect, on this, the com- 
pletion of the sixtieth year of your Majesty’s reign, humbly to 
offer our dutiful and heartfelt congratulations, and to express our 
continued and unswerving loyalty to your Majesty. 
As an Association formed in the early part of your Majesty’s 
reign, we participate with peculiar enthusiasm in the rejoicings 
that mark this great occasion, and we would wish to avail our- 
selves of this opportunity to lay at your Majesty’s feet an expres- 
sion of our humble and sincere thankfulness for the many tokens 
of Royal favour which your Majesty has been graciously pleased 
to confer on our Society, and of the gratitude we have long felt for 
