CONTENTS. 



The Society does not hold itself responsible for the statements 

 or views expressed by the authors of papers. 



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14. Report of the Annual Meeting, February 1920 . 121 



15. Report of Annual Excursion . . . . .131 



16. Observations on the Planting of the Quicker Growing 



Conifers. By Sir Hugh Shaw Stewart, Bart. . . 141 



17. A New Disease of the Douglas Fir in Scotland (with Plates). 



By Malcolm Wilson, D.Sc. (Lond.), F.R.S.E., F.L.S., 

 Lecturer in Mycology in the University of Edinburgh . 145 



18. Notes on Jack Pines and Sitka Spruce (with Plates). By 



James Kay, B.Sc. F. ...... 149 



19. The Landes of Gascony (with Plates). By M. E. Lapeyrere 155 



20. The Six-Toothed Bark Borer of the Spruce, Pityogenes 



{Tomicus) cha/cographus, L., and how to recognise it 

 (with Plates). By R. Stewart MacDougall, Honorary 

 Consulting Entomologist to the Society . .167 



21. David Douglas, Botanist, at Hawaii. By Gerald W. G. 



Loder . . . . . .172 



22. Estate Nurseries and Plantations Competition, 1920 174 



23. Commercial Forestry in the Highlands. By Alex. M'Pherson 178 



24. The Bin Wood, Aberdeenshire ..... 182 



25. British Empire Forestry Conference . . . .183 



26. Forestry Exhibition at Highland and Agricultural Society's 



Show, Aberdeen, 20th-23rd July 1920 . . .187 



27. Excursion of the Aberdeen Branch to Glendye Woods . 190 



28. Hylecoetus or Lymexylon dermestoides (L.), (with Plates). 



By Donald C. Fergusson, M.C.. B.Sc. . . . 192 



29. Trees in Myth and Legend. By Ernest V. Laing, President 



of the Aberdeen University Forestry Society . 195 



30. The Biological Basis of Forestry. By A. S. Watt . 210 



