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is now about to come into force, under which 

 funds have been specially granted for (along with 

 other objects) providing and improving instruction 

 in Forestry, and for making experiments in 

 planting. 

 "And it is further resolved that copies of this 

 Resolution be sent to— (i) the Secretary for 

 Scotland, (2) the Scottish Education Board, (3) 

 the President of the Board of Agriculture, and 

 (4) the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and that 

 every Scottish Member of Parliament be asked 

 to use his best influence to obtain the establish- 

 ment of such a School for Forest Apprentices at 

 the earliest possible date." 

 In explaining his Motion, Dr Nisbet said his experience was 

 that the collegiate instruction was not suitable for the class of 

 lads they wanted to train as forest apprentices — they should be 

 trained at some central locality. There was no reason why 

 Scotland should continue to be treated unfairly, where the 

 plantable land was twice as much as in all the rest of the 

 United Kingdom put together. 



The Motion was referred to the Council to report upon. 



Thanks to the Retiring President. 



On the Motion of the President, a hearty vote of thanks was 

 recorded to Sir Kenneth Mackenzie for his services to the 

 Society during the last three years. 



The President's Address. 



Sir John Stirling-Maxwell then gave his Presidential 

 Address, a full report of which will be found in the Transactio/is. 



Mr T. A. Nelson of Achnacloich, proposed a vote of thanks 

 to the President for his Address, and, in seconding the Motion, 

 Mr MuNRO Ferguson referred to the President's experience in 

 planting in the Highlands, and threw out a suggestion that the 

 Society might take in hand to make a survey, of a small area, 

 on the lines the Society expected the Government should adopt, 

 in surveying all the areas throughout the country suitable for 

 commercial planting. He thought the Society should also 

 renew their application to the Government in similar or other 

 suitable terms to those adopted in their recent Resolutions. 



