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the preservation, through your Majesty’s gracious care, of that 
beautiful portion of the old Caledonian Forest which surrounds 
your Majesty’s Highland home. 
We pray that your Majesty may continue to experience those 
blessings which have hitherto signalized your Majesty’s reign, and 
that your Majesty may long be spared to enjoy, in peace and 
happiness, the beauties of our Scottish forests. 
R. C. Munro Fercuson, President. 
Ropert Gattoway, Secretary. 
ScoTTisH OFFICE, 
WHITEHALL, S.W., 6th July 1897. 
Srr,—I have had the honour to lay before the Queen the loyal 
and dutiful Address by the Members of the Royal Scottish 
Arboricultural Society on the occasion of the completion of the 
sixtieth year of Her Majesty’s reign. 
Her Majesty was pleased to receive the same in the most 
gracious manner, and I have it in command to acquaint you 
that the evidence received from all parts of Scotland of the 
attachment of her Scottish subjects to her throne and person 
affords Her Majesty great satisfaction —I am, Sir, your obedient 
Servant, Batrour OF BURLEIGH. 
R. C. Munro FEereuson, Esq., M.P., 
Novar, Evanton, Ross-shire. 
JUBILEE MEMORIAL TREE PLANTING. 
On the motion of the Chairman, the following resolution was 
put to the Meeting and unanimously carried, viz.:— 
“That this Meeting of the Society approves of the recom- 
mendation of the Council that Members of the Society should use 
their influence with Town and County Councils and other Local 
Authorities, as well as Landed Proprietors generally, to induce 
them to plant specimens of ornamental trees, avenues, groups, 
and woods of all sizes, during the ensuing season, to commemorate 
in an appropriate manner the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Year.” 
Votes oF THANKS. 
Votes of thanks were accorded to the President for his Address, 
the Judges for their Reports on the Essays, Mr Dunn for his 
Paper, and the Chairman for presiding, which concluded the 
business. 
