116 ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT, AUGUST 4, 1885. 
Transactions, and to another in the Introduction to the volume 
of “Prize Essays,” in connection with the Exhibition, just 
published,* from which I make extracts. 
*‘ The Scottish Arboricultural Society, not content with starting 
and pressing forward the scheme for the Exhibition, contributed 
largely, the exhibits occupying the greater part of the northern 
division of the western transept and a large adjoining space in the 
nave. Meteorological instruments, dendrometers, tools used in 
forestry, models of bridges and river embankments, and specimens 
of woods were shown, and illustrations given of the durability of 
posts and sleepers in exposed situations. Cones of the rarer 
coniferz, fungi, and insects injurious to trees, specimens of graft- 
ing, pruning, and other operations, paintings and photographs of 
trees, dried leaves, models of foresters’ houses, rustic and elaborately 
artistic wood-work, illustrated the wide range of subjects and 
sciences touched upon by forest work.” 
“ The extensive ‘ Loan Collection,’ contributed by about 150 ex- 
hibitors, which was placed at the disposal of the Executive 
Committee, occupied the central tables in the nave. It formed a 
miscellaneous museum of Natural History objects—hbirds, insects, 
plants—specimens of ornamental panels, picture frames, beautiful 
carvings, models of ships, bridges, salmon-ladders, railways and 
buildings, and of curiosities of every kind.” 
“‘ In the three annexes many articles of great practical signifi- 
cance and economic value were displayed—machinery used in 
forest work and in the manufacture of wood products ; manufac- 
tured goods, such as furniture of all descriptions, from the plainest 
to the most ornate ; exquisite inlaid work ; walking-sticks, fishing- 
rods, and indiarubber, native and manufactured. Many things of 
more strictly scientific interest were also present, such as micro- 
photographs, microscopic objects, cones, barks, and other speci- 
mens.” 
With the view of extending the knowledge of the public on 
Forest questions, arrangements were made by which popular 
lectures should be delivered at intervals during the time the 
Exhibition lasted. The programme included the following sub- 
jects :—(1.) “Outlines of Forestry in Europe,” by Dr Lyons ; 
(2.) “Wood,” by Professor M‘Nab; (3.) ‘ Timber-destroying 
* Forestry and Forest Products. Edited by John Rattray and Hugh 
Robert Mill. Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1885. 
