ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT, AUGUST 9, 1892. 303 
wide experience, and whose personal qualities are no less admirable 
than his interest in forestry, stepped at short notice into the vacant 
lectureship and continued the work, which DrSomerville’s departure 
threatened to interrupt. It will, I am sure, be the sanguine 
hope of every member of the Society, that, under Lieutenant- 
Colonel Bailey, the progress of University teaching will proceed 
as rapidly and as effectually as it did under Dr Somerville, and 
the Society will extend a most hearty and sympathetic welcome 
to him. 
To the work conducted by Lieutenant-Colonel Bailey the 
Board of Agriculture continued the support given previously to 
Dr Somerville, and until sufficient endowment is obtained for 
the creation of a permanent Professorship of Forestry in the 
University, it is to be hoped the Board of Agriculture will not 
refuse to grant the £100 per annum by which so much has been 
already done. 
And this brings me to the question of the Endowment Fund for 
a Chair of Forestry in the University, to the raising of which the 
Society has devoted attention. As you are aware, the Highland and 
Agricultural Society has interested itself in this matter, and, like 
this Society, has obtained some money towards the fund. The 
amount already promised and in hand from all sources is, I 
understand, about a quarter of the total sum required, if the 
endowment is to be such as to place the Forestry Chair on a 
footing equal to that of other endowed chairs in the University 
of like character. The secretary will, at a later period, give us 
details of the figures. This is not altogether so satisfactory a 
result as we would wish for, but I see no element therein of 
discouragement. What I would say, and I believe you will all 
join me in saying it, is, we must get the money to endow the 
chair. For this purpose our efforts must be redoubled, and we 
must, in every possible way, endeavour to bring before those to 
whom good forestry is a matter of solid importance, the claims 
which forestry teaching in the University has upon them. A 
joint circular has been drawn up by the two Societies, this one 
and the Highland and Agricultural Society, and is to be issued 
at once. Let me, on behalf of this Society, ask our members to 
use every diligence in bringing it before those who should be 
willing and are able to subscribe to the fund. 
There is one other point bearing on university education in 
forestry which demands notice from me here. It is the position 
