Hogal Scottisi? ^rBortcuItural Soctdg. 



Instituted 16th February 1854. 



PATRON 



HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY THE KING. 



PROCEEDINGS IN 1910-Continued. 



THE GENERAL MEETING. 



The General Meeting of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society was held in the Highland and Agricultural Society's 

 Showyard at Dumfries, on Thursday, 21st July 1910, at 2.30 p.m. 

 Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, Bart., President of the Society, 

 presided over a large attendance of Members. 



Address to the King. 



The Chairman intimated that the following Address had been 

 sent to the King : — 



To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 



May it please your Majesty, 



We, the Council of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, 

 humbly approach your Majesty on your accession to 

 the Throne, with the desire to offer our respectful 

 condolence with your Majesty, the Queen Mother and 

 the other Members of the Royal Family, in the death of 

 your lamented Father, King Edward VII., whose short 

 but glorious reign has been fruitful in the blessings 

 accompanying peace and good-will, which it was his 

 constant endeavour to secure, not only for his own people, 

 but for all Nations — and whose sudden removal has 

 profoundly stirred the British Empire with a sense of 

 inestimable loss. 



We especially desire to remember, with gratitude, His 

 Majesty's interest in the welfare of our Society to which 

 he graciously extended his Patronage, and the continued 



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