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Colonel Fothringham then addressed the meeting on the 

 work of the Interim Forest Authority and of the Forestry 

 Commission which has now superseded it. On the motion 

 of the Chairman he was heartily thanked for his address. 



A vote of thanks to the Chairman closed the meeting. 



Note. — A detailed report of the proceedings at the meeting 

 will be found on pp. 121-131 of Part II., Vol. xxxiv., of the 

 Transactions. 



THE GENERAL MEETING. 



The General Meeting of the Society was held in the Highland 

 and Agricultural Society's Showyard, Aberdeen, on Thursday, 

 22nd July 1920, at 2.30 p.m. Mr W. H. Massie, Senior Vice- 

 President, presided, and there were about sixty members present. 



Apologies. 



Apologies for absence were intimated from His Grace the 

 Duke of Buccleuch, President; Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, Bart., 

 Hon. Secretary; Messrs Buchanan, Finlayson, Fraser, Davidson, 

 Spiers, Milne Home, Forbes, Leslie, Leven, Whitton, and Dr 

 Borthwick, Members of Council ; and also from Lord Henry 

 Bentinck, Sir Robert and Lady Buchanan Jardine, Major Sprot 

 of Riddell, Mr James Johnstone, Mr W. S. Curr, and Mr C. 

 Augustus Carlow. 



The Late Mr J. A. Duthie. 



The Chairman said that he was sure they all regretted very 

 much the death of Mr Duthie, who had been a member for 

 twenty years, a valuable Councillor, and a man very much 

 respected by them all. The Council had agreed to send a letter 

 of condolence to Miss Duthie, with which the President had 

 expressly desired to be associated, and he asked the meeting to 

 homologate what the Council had agreed to do. Mr Irvine, 

 as President of the Aberdeen Branch, seconded the Chairman's 

 motion, which was unanimously adopted. 



