302 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
losses to the Society and the cause we are all engaged in carrying 
on, by the death of members, are not an average, and that no 
forester of outstanding ability has during the past year dis- 
appeared from our midst. 
In the remarks which I had the honour to address to the 
Society, from this chair, on the occasion of our last annual 
meeting, I briefly reviewed the position of the Society with 
reference to, and the progress it had made towards the attain- 
ment of aims for the promotion of scientific forestry after which 
it had been so long striving, and I ventured to express the hope 
that before another anniversary arrived the Society would be 
able to look back on its past endeavours with that feeling 
of satisfaction, which well-spent effort begets in the successful. 
It is most pleasing to me to find myself able to say that the past 
twelve months have been fruitful of solid achievement in the 
cause of forestry in Scotland; and the fruition, if it has not 
matured so rapidly as we had looked for, and if it is not so 
perfect as we could picture, is yet of a kind that we may, I 
think, be well content to have obtained, and I venture to hope 
we may claim to have succeeded in laying a foundation of the 
scientific education of foresters in this country. 
It was of forestry education that I spoke in a special manner 
at our annual meeting last year, and to-night I shall devote the 
short time I ask you to allow me to occupy to the same subject, 
in order that I may point out what has been done during the 
interval in the way of furthering this vital matter. 
You may recollect that I laid stress on the necessity of 
distinguishing the education of those attending our University 
from that of practical foresters, and I will to-night refer to those 
two sides of the question of education separately, for I do not 
require to remind the Society that it has interested itself alike 
in both. 
University Forestry Education—We met last year with a 
feeling of misfortune, in that we had lost the services of Dr 
Somerville, who had done such yeoman service for our cause in 
Edinburgh; and it seemed, for some time after his migration to 
Newcastle, that the difficulty of filling his official post amongst 
us as University Lecturer on Forestry, which we all knew would 
be so great, was to be even greater than we had supposed. But 
Lieutenant-Colonel Bailey, R.E., whose name is well known to all 
who are familiar with the aspects of Indian forestry, an officer of 
