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similar appointment, with the additional posts of forester and 

 land steward, on the estate of Auchlunkart, in Banffshire. 

 However, he soon found that that position did not give his 

 energies sufficient scope, so he resigned it in 187 1, when he 

 transferred his services, as wood manager and land steward, 

 to the Byth estate in Aberdeenshire. After a year thus 

 employed, Mr Urquhart, the proprietor, entrusted him with 

 the management of his Meldrum estate in addition. Here 

 a large extent of arable land was in the proprietor's own 

 hands, and besides timber manufacture on a commercial scale, 

 large improvements were being carried out, such as building, 

 draining, lime burning, etc. After resurveying the estate and 

 giving effect to alterations of boundaries and plantations, 

 he resigned in 1877, on receiving the appointment of sub- or 

 resident-factor for the Murthly and Grantully estates of the 

 late Sir Douglas Stewart. Here works of various kinds and 

 of considerable extent were carried out, all the plans and 

 specifications being prepared by Mr Mackenzie. The Murthly 

 estates extend to over 20,000 acres, and their natural beauty 

 is much enhanced by the great wealth of exotic trees, some 

 of which are believed to grow there with greater luxuriance 

 than in their native habitat. It was in this arboreal paradise 

 that Mr Mackenzie gained most of the wonderful practical 

 knowledge he possessed of exotic trees and their timber. 



He resigned the Perthshire appointment in 1883, on becoming 

 factor for the Mortonhall estates in Midlothian. The following 

 year the late Sir Douglas Stewart asked him to reconsider 

 his position and return to Murthly. While he deliberated 

 on the matter, it was decided for him by the late Sir Henry 

 Trotter of Mortonhall appointing him factor for his Charterhall 

 estates in Berwickshire in addition. These appointments he 

 held to the day of his death. 



Mr Mackenzie became a member of the Society in 1872. 

 He was elected a councillor in 1879, and served a term of 

 three years. After an interval, he was re-elected in 1883, and 

 thenceforward he served continuously on the council to the 

 day of his death. During that period he served four terms 

 as a vice-president. He was elected a judge of essays in 1884, 

 a position which he also held for many years. At the jubilee 

 of the Society, in 1904, he was elected to the honorary member- 

 ship, which is the highest honour in the gift of the Society. 



