68 INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY EXHIBITION. 
INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY EXHIBITION, 
EDINBURGH, 1884. 
The International Forestry Exhibition held in Edinburgh in 
1884—+the first of the kind in the British Empire—originated in 
a proposal made by some members of the Scottish Arboricultural 
Society in the spring of 1882; and the project was announced at 
the annual meeting of the Society that autumn, as recorded in 
the Proceedings. The proposal was at once taken up with en- 
thusiasm by foresters at home and abroad, and especially by 
members of this Society. It received the generous patronage and 
support of Her Majesty The Queen, and the Royal Family; many 
foreign Princes and States; the Home, Indian, and Colonial 
Governments ; the leading nobility and landowners of the United 
Kingdom ; the Lord Provost and Town Council of Edinburgh; the 
Highland and Agricultural Society; and numerous learned, scien- 
tific, and industrial bodies throughout the country. 
After the preliminary meetings were held under the auspices of 
this Society, and the matter fairly placed before the public, a large 
General Committee, including many influential members of the 
Society, was elected, with the Marquis of Lothian, K.T., Presi- 
dent, to carry out the proposed Exhibition. Eventually, the 
direction and management devolved on an Executive Commitiee 
of thirteen members, presided over by the Marquis of Lothian. 
This Society was represented on the Executive by the President 
of the Society, Dr Cleghorn of Stravithie ; two ex-Presidents, the 
Marquis of Lothian, and Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie ; Colin 
J. Mackenzie of Portmore ; and Malcolm Dunn and John Methven. 
The other members of the Executive were Sir James H. Gibson 
Craig, Bart., of Riccarton, Vice-President ; Sir George Harrison, 
Lord Provost of Edinburgh; Fletcher N. Menzies, Secretary, 
Highland and Agricultural Society ; John Murray, of the ‘“ Chal- 
lenger” Expedition ; William Skinner of Corra, W.S., Town Clerk 
of Edinburgh ; James D. Park, Engineer; and James A. Wenley, 
Bank of Scotland, Treasurer ; with Mr George Cadell, Secretary. 
Through the energy and excellent arrangement of the Executive, 
assisted by an efficient staff of officials, the exhibits, collected from 
almost every quarter of the world, were arranged for inspection by 
the day originally fixed on—the first of July—when the Exhibition 
was formally opened by the Marquis of Lothian, in the presence of 
alarge and representative assemblage. During the three and a half 
