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one for gates made by working foresters. He thought it was 

 unfair to expect foresters to compete in workmanship with trained 

 joiners, and to get over this difficulty he suggested that there 

 should be two classes. The President thanked Mr Duncan for 

 his suggestion, wliich he said would be carefully considered by 

 the Council. 



Excursion to Lochaber. 



Mr Buchanan, Convener of the Excursion Committee, 

 reported that the recent Excursion had been well attended, and 

 had been one of the most interesting and instructive of the home 

 Excursions that the Society had ever held. The Members were 

 greatly indebted to the President for the trouble he had taken in 

 preparing the descriptive guide, and for the help he had given the 

 Committee during the outing. They were much interested in 

 his experimental plantings on inverted turf on peaty soils at 

 Corrour, of which some illustrations were on view in the 

 Exhibition. The Council's recommendation was that next year 

 the Excursion should be held in the Border district. Mr Watt 

 said that as a representative from the Border he would be glad 

 to give the Society a welcome. The report was approved of and 

 the matter remitted to the Council with powers. 



School for Forest Apprentices. 



In regard to Dr Nisbet's resolution on this subject, which he 

 gave notice of at the Annual Meeting, and which was remitted 

 to the Council for consideration and report, the Chairman said 

 that this matter was brought before* the Council, not for the first 

 time, and had received sympathetic consideration, and they had 

 endeavoured in their dealings with public departments to put this 

 idea of a school in the forefront of their policy. They all 

 recognised the need for it, and one of the main reasons why a 

 demonstration forest was so much required was that it would form 

 the natural home of such a school. He regretted the Council 

 had no progress to report in this matter, although they had 

 repeated their application to the Government. Governments 

 moved very slowly, but the Development Commissioners were 

 now meeting, and it was hoped this would be one of the first 

 things that would come out of their deliberations and their 

 distribution of money. 



A vote of thanks to the Chairman closed the Meeting. 



