TREES PLANTED BY THE EARL OF MORAY. 93 



At Doinie. 



The Soil is a gravel mixed with a sandy clay, in which Oak, 



Larch and Scots fir grow well. 

 Situation from 100 to 400 feet above the level of the Sea. 



The Girth and height were taken in the year 1807. 



11. Aberdeen University Forestry Society. 



The forestry students attending the University of Aberdeen, 

 at a meeting held in the Forestry Department shortly after 

 the opening of the winter session, decided to form a Forestry 

 Society for the purpose of promoting the interests o restry, 

 especially among those who are, have been, or intend to be 

 students in forestry, by affording opportunities for the exchange 

 of views on matters of importance, by means of lectures, dis- 

 cussions, demonstrations, or by any other means which may be 

 deemed advisable. Office-bearers and a committee were ap- 

 pointed to assume the charge of the conduct of the society. A 

 syllabus of lectures on subjects covering a wide field of topics 

 relating to forestry has been prepared for the current winter 

 session, and there is every indication that the society has a 

 prosperous future in front of it. 



The inaugural lecture to the society was delivered by Mr 

 Peter Leslie, Lecturer on Forestry, on the 31st of October, on 

 " The Prospects of Forestry." Mr Leslie at the outset con- 

 gratulated the members of the society on the success which 

 had attended their efforts in starting a Forestry Society, and 

 said that no more suitable time could have been selected for 

 such an event than the year that, among other important 

 happenings, had witnessed the placing on the Statute Book 

 of the Forestry Act, which if wisely administered could not 

 fail to lead to forestry becoming an important rural industry. 



He intended treating the subject of his paper first from its 

 natural economic side, and then from those aspects of it which 

 more particularly concerned students and lecturers. Three 

 things were essential if forestry were to be placed on a satis- 

 factory footing as an important industry: — there must be 

 a sufficiently large area of land economically suitable for 

 afforestation ; there must be enough capital available for the 



