oval Dcottish Arboricultural Society. 
Instituted 16th February 1854. 
PATRON. 
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. 
THE ANNUAL MEETING. 
The Forty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Royal Scottish 
Arboricultural Society was held in No. 5 Sr ANDREW Square, 
EDINBURGH, on Wednesday, 26th January 1898, at 2.30 P.M. 
R. C. Munro Fereuson, M.P., of Raith and Novar, President of 
the Society, occupied the Chair. 
MINUTES. 
The Minutes of the General Meeting of the Society, held on 
Monday, 16th August 1897, which had been printed and circulated 
amongst the Members, were held as read, and approved of. 
APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE. 
The Secretary reportéd that he had received letters of apology 
for absence from The Lord Balvaird, and from Messrs James 
Robertson and W. A. Mackenzie, Members of Council. 
ELECTION OF NEw MEMBERS. 
The election of the following sixy-two Candidates for 
Membership, whose names had previously been submitted to the 
Council, was duly confirmed, viz.:— 
Life Members. 
Coats, Sir Thomas Glen, Bart., Ferguslie Park, Paisley. 
Dicsy, The Right Hon. Baron, Minterne, Cerne, Dorsetshire. 
Kinross, John, Architect, Drummond Place, Edinburgh. 
Lovat, The Right Hon. Lord, Beaufort Castle, Beauly, Inverness. 
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