Hoyal Scottisi? ^rbortcultural Society. 



Instituted 16th February 1854. 



PATRON : 



HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE KING. 



PROCEEDINGS IN 1917. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Sixty-fourth Annual Business Meeting of the Society was 

 held in the Goold Hall, 5 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, on 

 Wednesday, 7th February 1917, at 12.45 p-m., and was attended 

 by about fifty members. Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., PresWent 

 of the Society, was Chairman. 



Apologies. 



The Secretary intimated that he had received apologies for 

 absence from Mr Sutherland, of the Board of Agriculture, and 

 Colonel MacDougall, Director of the Timber Operations of the 

 Canadian Overseas Forestry Corps, who had both been un- 

 expectedly detained in London on urgent business and would 

 be unable to be present at the meeting. 



Apologies for absence were also intimated from Sir John 

 Stirling-Maxwell, Hon. Secretary, Lord Forteviot, Lieut. -Col. 

 Steuart Fothringham, Sir Arthur Mackenzie of Coul, Professor 

 Hendrick, and Messrs D. T. Samson, John Boyd, Donald 

 Munro, H. Boyd Watt, John M'Kerchar, A. J. Munro, W. H. 

 Massie, G. P. Gordon, J. A. Hov/e, Charles W. Ralston, and 

 C. S. France. 



Minutes. 



The Chairman mentioned that the Minutes of the General 

 Meeting, held in July last, were in print on the table and asked 

 whether the meeting desired the Minutes to be read. It was 

 agreed that they should be held as read, and they were 

 accordingly adopted. 



