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Notice of Motions. 

 Notice was given of the following Motions : — 



1. By Mr A. D. Richardson — to alter Law XIV. 



{a) To delete the words " one of the retiring Vice-Presi- 

 dents, and four of the retiring Councillors," in the 

 second clause of the second sentence ; and 



{b) To insert the following as the third sentence of the 

 Law : — " One of the retiring Vice-Presidents or 

 one of the retiring Councillors may be elected 

 as President, and two or more of the retiring 

 Councillors may be elected as Vice-Presidents ; 

 but none of the retiring Vice-Presidents or retiring 

 Councillors shall be eligible for re-election till 

 after the expiry of one year." 



2. By Dr Nisbet. 



'* Whereas a School for Forest Apprentices has been 

 established for England and Wales in the Forest 

 of Dean (Gloucestershire), and a similar School 

 for Ireland, at Avondale (Co. Wicklow), and 

 whereas Scotland, in the unanimous opinion of 

 the Royal Commissioners, who reported on 

 afforestation in 1909, contains twice as much 

 plantable land as all the rest of the United 

 Kingdom taken together, this Society urges that 

 a School for training Foresters should at once be 

 established in Scotland at some convenient wood- 

 land centre, where planting experiments can also 

 be carried on systematically. 



"As Scotland has over 2| times as many woods and 

 plantations as Ireland, and nearly 2\ times as 

 much mountain and heath land, it is unfair that 

 Scotland should still be without a School for 

 training Forest Apprentices, while Ireland was 

 provided with one on a very liberal scale five 

 years ago. And the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society considers the present an opportune 

 moment for asking the Government to remove 

 this unfairness, as the Development Act, 1909, 



