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for lunch, and on resuming a general discussion took place. 

 Sir Andrew Agnew read a short note by Colonel Stirling on 

 Forestry Organisation in France. 



The meeting was then thrown open for general discussion, in the 

 course of which the need for a Central Authority was emphasised 

 by Sir Hugh Shaw Stewart. The motion was then put to the 

 meeting and carried unanimously. The question having been 

 again raised as to whether the motion was sufficiently wide to 

 cover the Central Authority, Sir Hugh Shaw Stewart suggested 

 that a further motion should be put to the meeting making the 

 position quite clear. It was pointed out, however, that no 

 notice having been given of such a motion, it could only be 

 taken up at a Special Meeting. The meeting accordingly 

 unanimously agreed that a Special Meeting should be held, 

 and remitted to the Council to adjust the notice and resolution. 



MINUTE OF SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the 



Society held in DoiveWs Rooms, 20 George Street, Editihcrgh, 

 on Friday, i^th March 19 18, at 2.2,0 p.m. 



The following fifty-four members were present : — The Duke 

 of Buccleuch (President); Sir John Stirling-Maxwell (Hon. 

 Secretary) ; Col. Stirling, M.P., Col. Balfour, Messrs Buchanan, 

 Massie, Richardson, Allan, Macdonald, Spiers, Davidson, 

 Forbes, Terris, J. H. Milne Home, Broom, Cook, and Curr 

 (Members of Council) ; Col. Milne Home, Dr Borthwick, Sir 

 Hugh Shaw Stewart, Sir John Gladstone, Capt. Sprot, Col. 

 Malcolm, Capt. Stewart, Dr Shirra Gibb, Col. Fothringham, 

 Hon. H. Dalrymple, Sir Arch. Buchan-Hepburn, and Messrs 

 A. B. Robertson, C. W. Berry, Jas. Mann, W. E. Whyte, 

 Donald Munro, R. C. Cowan, C. W. Cowan, E. G. Baxter, 

 H. Brown, J. A. Holms, W. H. Menmuir, Jas. Smith, J. M'Laren, 

 W. W. Smith, Jas. Forbes, H. M. Cadell, E. P. Stebbing, 

 A. Hamilton, Jas. Wilson, C. J. G. Paterson, W. A. Rae, 

 Geo. Leven, J. L. Pike, J. H. Sang, R. Inglis, and R. Galloway 

 (Secretary). 



Apologies for absence were intimated from Lord Lovat, Sir 

 Kenneth Mackenzie, Messrs Irvine of Drum, Duthie, Whitton, 

 M'Beath, Eraser (Members of Council); Sir Andrew Agnew, 

 Sir James Campbell, Sir David Stewart, Major Chadwick, and 

 Messrs J. A. Campbell, D. Thompson, T. Stark, J. Boyd, Don. 

 Robertson, A. D. Hopkinson. 



