SYLLABUS OF SUBJECTS FOR ESSAYS. 
The following subjects are offered for competition in 1899 :— 
[The Judges are empowered to fix the value of the Prizes to be 
awarded according to the respective merits of the Essays. 
All Essays, Reports, Models, or other Articles intended for 
Competition must be lodged with the Secretary not later than Ist 
June 1899. All Collections of Cones, Seeds, and Rustic Work, 
intended for exhibition only, must be in the hands of the Secretary 
not less than three days before the Annual Meeting, to be held on 
24th January 1899. Each Essay, Report, Model, or Article must 
bear a Morro, and be accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing 
outside the sAaME Morro, and the Class to which the Competitor 
belongs, and containing inside, a Carp with the NAME and 
AppreEss of the Competitor. 
Essays should be written on one side of the paper only; the 
left-hand quarter of each page should be left as a blank margin. 
The lines should not be crowded together. 
Judges cannot compete during their term of office. 
Successful Competitors may either have the medals or their con- 
verted values, which are as follows: —Gold, £5; No. 1 Saver, £3; 
No. 2 Silver, £2; Bronze, 10s. ] 
CLass I.—For Open ComPETITION. 
I. For an approved Report showing the Financial Results of 
the Cultivation of Woods and Plantations. (Zen Guineas offered 
by Isaac Bayley Balfour, M.D., D.Sc., Professor of Botany in the 
University of Edinburgh, formerly President of the Society.) 
It is not necessary that the names of the estates on which the woods 
grow should be published, but the reporter must give the annual 
value of the land previous to planting; statistics of the cost of 
forming the plantations, including draining and fencing; the 
expenses of management, the income derived, and the present 
value of the Woods. 
II. For an approved Essay on the best methods of realising 
Forest Products. (Silver Medal offered by Wm. M. Welsh, Esq., 
of Messrs Dicksons & Co., 1 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh.) 
III. For an approved Account of measures successfully adopted 
for the Extermination of Insect Pests affecting Forest Trees. 
