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prosperity of which we feel sure your Majesty will desire 

 to promote. 



We respectfully assure your Majesty of our loyalty 

 and devotion to your Throne and Person, and express our 

 trust that your Majesty and Queen Mary will be long 

 spared to reign over a loyal, prosperous and happy 

 people. 



John Stirling-Maxwell, President. 



R. MuNRO Ferguson, Hon. Secretary. 



R. Galloway, Secretary. 



The reply received was in the following terms :— 



Scottish Office, 

 Whitehall, 4th July 1910. 



Sir, — I am commanded by the King to convey to the 

 Council of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society 

 His Majesty's thanks for the expressions of sympathy 

 with the Royal Family, on the occasion of the lamented 

 death of His late Majesty King Edward the Seventh, and 

 for the loyal and dutiful assurances on the occasion of 

 His Majesty's accession to the Throne, contained in their 

 Address which I have had the honour to lay before His 

 Majesty. 



I am, 



Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 

 The President of the Pentland. 



Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society. 



Minutes. 



The Minutes of the Annual Meeting, which was held in 

 Edinburgh on nth February last, were held as read and 

 adopted. 



Apologies. 



Apologies for absence were intimated from Sir Kenneth 

 Mackenzie; The Right Hon. R. C. Munro Ferguson, M.P., 

 Honorary Secretary ; Sir David Stewart of Banchory ; Sir 

 Arthur Mackenzie of Coul ; Mr James Johnstone, Ayr ; Colonel 

 Bailey, and Messrs Methven, Annand, Whitton, Scott and 

 Crozier, Members of Council. 



