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APPENDIX E. 



Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society (Aberdeen Branch). 



REPORT 1910. 



The Committee beg to submit the Fifth Annual Report of 

 the Branch. 



The affairs of the Branch have been conducted on the same 

 lines as in the preceding year. 



The Membership of the Branch has been slightly increased 

 during the year, ten new Members having joined. The meetings 

 and excursions have been somewhat better attended ; but the 

 Committee would point out that the attendance of Country 

 Members is not so good as it might be. They would be glad 

 to have any suggestions as to how this could be remedied, 

 so that all the Members of the Branch might have opportunities 

 of meeting. 



During the year, three meetings of the Branch have been held, 

 on nth December 1909, and on 21st May and i6th July 1910- 

 Papers were read — by Sir John Fleming at the Annual General 

 Meeting in December 1909, the subject of his address being 

 " When Afforestation comes," and by Mr C. S. France and Mr 

 John Rule at the meeting in May, the subjects of their papers 

 being respectively, " Practical Forestry, with special reference to 

 the Pruning of Forest Trees," and " The natural increment to be 

 expected from a crop of larch and Norway spruce in decades 

 of fifty to seventy years." An Excursion was made to Mony- 

 musk on i6th July 19 10, and was attended by thirty-four 

 Members and friends. 



The Committee have again to record their thanks to Professor 

 Trail, and the University Authorities, for being allowed to use 

 the Botanical class-room for the meetings of the Branch. 



George D Massie, 



Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, 



