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APPENDIX C. 



Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society (Aberdeen Branch). 

 REPORT 1916. 



The Committee beg to submit the Eleventh Annual Report of 

 the Branch. 



The Membership of the Branch is 115, four having joined 

 the Branch, and 23 having died, resigned, or left the area of the 

 Branch during the year. 



Two meetings of the Branch were fixed to be held on 

 1 8th December 1915, and 20th May 1916, it having been 

 decided to depart from the usual four quarterly meetings in 

 consequence of the war. 



At the Annual Meeting held in December formal business 

 only was transacted, and at the meeting held in May a 

 discussion took place on " The Present and Prospective Con- 

 dition of the Timber Trade arising from War Conditions." 

 The discussion was opened by Mr C. S. France, and was taken 

 part in by Sir John Fleming, Messrs Donald Munro, Rule, 

 Clark, and FyflFe, and the President, and various interesting 

 problems were discussed. 



Although no Branch excursions have been held, an excursion, 

 arranged by the Parent Society, in which many of the members 

 of the Branch joined, took place to Nairn on Wednesday, 

 6th September, for the purpose of seeing the Canadian lumber- 

 men, then at work on the estates of Cawdor and Darnaway. 

 While the visit of inspection was instructive in many ways, the 

 general impression of the practical men present was that 

 foresters and woodmen in this country had not a great deal 

 to learn in regard to the felling or cutting up of wood ; especially 

 was this the feeling if the question of economy, either of time, 

 men, or material, was to be taken into account. After viewing 

 the mills in operation, and the wood felling, the party walked 

 through the forest to Darnaway, under the guidance of Mr Scott, 

 the wood manager on the estate. This was, perhaps, the 

 most enjoyable part of the excursion, some of the finest trees — 

 larches, firs, and spruces — to be seen in this country being 



