Kogal Scottish ^rBoricuItural Societg. 



Instituted 16th February 1854. 



PATRON : 



HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE KING. 



PROCEEDINGS IN 1917. -Continued. 



THE GENERAL MEETING. 



The General Meeting of the Society was held in the Y.M.C.A. 

 Rooms, 70 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, on Wednesday, nth July 

 1917, at II o'clock. Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., President, 

 occupied the Chair. 



Minutes. 



The Minutes of the Annual Meeting, held on 7th February 

 last, which had been printed, were, on the motion of the Chair- 

 man, held as read and adopted. 



Apologies. 

 Apologies for absence were intimated from Lord Forteviot, 

 Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, Colonel Stirling, M.P., Lord de Vesci, 

 Sir Robert Wright, Sir Arch. Buchan-Hepburn, Colonel Malcolm 

 of Poltalloch, Dr Somerville, and Messrs Robert Allan, J. A. 

 Duthie, P. Leslie, Charles W. Ralston, D. K. M'Beath, John T. 

 Calder, James C. Calder, and John M'Kerchar. 



Judges' Report on Essays. 



The Secretary reported that two Essays had been received, 

 and the Judges' awards were as follows : — 



1. " The Reclamation of Waste Land by Afforestation." By 



W. H. Whellens, Thoresby Park, Ollerton, Notts. 

 Award — a No. 2 Silver Medal. 



2. "The Trees of Thoresby Park." By W. H. Whellens, 



Thoresby Park, Ollerton, Notts. Award — a No. 3 

 Silver Medal. 



c 



