^oyal Scotttsl? ^vBortcuItural Soctctg. 



Instituted 16th February 1854. 



I'ATRON : 



HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE KING. 



PROCEEDINGS IN 1916.— Continued. 



THE GENERAL MEETING. 



The General Meeting of the Society was held in the Goold 

 Hall, 5 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, 12th July 

 1916, at 2.30 p.:m. Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart, of Lochnaw, 

 President of the Society, was in the Chair. 



Minutes. 



The Chairman said that the Minutes of the Annual Meeting, 

 held on 5th February last, were in print on the table and asked 

 if the meeting desired them to be read. It was agreed that they 

 should be held as read, and they were accordingly adopted. 



Apologies. 



Apologies for absence were intimated from Sir John Stirling- 

 Maxwell, Colonel Steuart Fothringham of Murthly, Sir John 

 Dewar, Sir Hugh Shaw Stewart, Captain Sprot of Riddell, Sir 

 Arthur Mackenzie of Coul ; Messrs Gordon, Curr and 

 Howe, Members of Council ; and Messrs J. A. Alexander, 

 D. A. MacCorquodale, John M'Kerchar, and William Wilson. 



Chairman's Remarks. 



The Chairman then delivered an address dealing with the 

 position of the afforestation question at the present time. (A full 

 report of this address appears in the Tratisactions, page i.) 



