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The Secretary read the notice caUing the meeting as follows : — 



19 Castle Street, 

 Edinburgh, isf March 1918. 



SPECIAL MEETING. 



At the Annual Business Meeting of the Society held on the 

 20th ult, the Resolution regarding the Report of the Forestry 

 Sub-Committee of the Reconstruction Committee, which was 

 printed in the notice calling that meeting, was unanimously 

 adopted. A doubt was, however, expressed by one or two 

 members as to whether the Resolution was wide enough in 

 its terms to embrace approval of the proposed Central Forest 

 Authority. With the view of removing any dubiety on the 

 point Sir Hugh Shaw Stewart proposed to submit a further 

 Motion to the meeting, but it was ruled that such a Motion 

 required notice. The Meeting thereupon unanimously remitted 

 to the Council to call a Special Meeting of the Society to deal 

 with this matter. 



A Special General Meeting of the Society will, therefore, be 

 held within Dowell's Rooms, 20 George Street, Edinburgh, 

 on Friday, 15th March 19 18, at 2.30 o'clock p.m., when the 

 following motion will be submitted for adoption, namely : — 



"That this Meeting of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society, specially convened, hereby approves of the 

 recommendations of the Forestry Sub-Committee of 

 the Reconstruction Committee, and particularly of the 

 recommendation that a Central Forest Authority, 

 equipped with funds and powers, be created for Great 

 Britain and Ireland, and urges the Government to 

 carry these recommendations into effect without 



delay." 



By Order of the Council, 



R. Galloway, 



Secretary. 



The Secretary also read the rule regulating the procedure. 



The Chairman read the following telegram received from Lord 

 Lovat: — ''Regret military duties prevent attendance. After over 

 a year's association with the higher officials of the French Forestry 

 Service, and an intimate acquaintance with some thirty of their 

 admirably managed forests, I am more than ever convinced that 



