might be prepared to consider the question of recommending 

 advances out of the Development Fund towards the cost of 

 local Surveys. — I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, 



H. E. Dale, 

 The Secretary, Secretary. 



RovAL Scottish Arboricultural Society. 



The Secretary for Scotland had intimated to the President 

 that he proposed to appoint a small Committee to make pre- 

 liminary investigations into the Society's proposals, and to 

 suggest a suitable area or areas for the Demonstration Forest, 

 and make other suggestions as to how the Society's scheme 

 should be carried out, and to formulate an application to the 

 Development Commission. The Council approved generally 

 of the outlines of the proposed procedure suggested by the 

 Scottish Office, on condition that it received guarantees that the 

 administration of the Development grant would be placed in 

 competent hands. The Council has further considered the matter 

 to-day, and has decided that the Society would not be justified 

 in lending its assistance unless it receives a guarantee that any 

 grant given for a Demonstration Forest will be administered by 

 competent persons, and an assurance that the Survey will be 

 proceeded with at once. 



About I ICO copies of the Society's Representation were dis- 

 tributed to Scottish, London and Dublin newspapers. County 

 Councils and other bodies interested in the subject, and replies 

 have been received from a number of County Councils to the 

 effect that they have written to the Development Commission 

 supporting the Society's Representation; 



Conference with the English Society. 



At the request of the Royal English Arboricultural Society, 

 a small Deputation was appointed to meet a similar Deputation 

 from the English Society to confer on various matters of mutual 

 interest. A meeting was held in London, on 3rd January last, 

 and a Memorandum of the proceedings will be appended to this 

 report. (See Appendix A.) 



Finances. 

 Mr John Methven, Convener of the Finance Committee, 

 submitted the Abstract of Accounts for the year ended 

 31st December last (see Appendix C), and read the Auditor's 

 Docquet appended. He said, I think we may hold the 

 Accounts as read. There are only one or two points of 

 interest in the Accounts that 1 might draw your attention 

 to. We have been fortunate enough to receive from the 

 management of the late Edinburgh Exhibition the sum of 



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