Subscriptions. 



The Council considered the question of the subscription 

 payable by farmers, and agreed that tenant farmers should pay 

 6s. per annum as hitherto, and that proprietor farmers should 

 pay either los. 6d. or 6s. according to the valuation of their 

 lands. 



It was also agreed that forestry students should pay 6s. 

 per annum for a period of five years or until they had obtained 

 appointments as officers, when their subscription would be 

 reconsidered. 



Members were reminded in the circular calling this meeting 

 that subscriptions for the current year are now due. Members 

 in arrear are also urged to remit, when their Transactions will 

 be forwarded. A special intimation is also made that a great 

 deal of unnecessary expenditure in printing and postage is 

 incurred annually because of delay in forwarding subscriptions 

 at the proper time. 



Council. 



The Aberdeen and Northern Branches having been consulted 

 as to representation upon the Council, the former submitted 

 a resolution on the subject which was unanimously adopted by 

 the Council at a recent meeting. Notice of this resolution has 

 been intimated in the Billet calling this meeting, and it will 

 therefore be discussed and, if approved, adopted at the next 

 meeting of the Society. 



Transactions. 



It was hoped that the usual two Parts of the Tra?isactions 

 would be issued in the course of last year. One of these Parts 

 was issued in September and the other, but for a slight 

 unavoidable delay at the close of the year, would have been 

 issued before 31st December. It is now being circulated to 

 those who are not in arrear with their subscriptions. It is 

 expected that the usual two Parts will be issued in the course 

 of this year. 



Competing estimates for printing the Tra?isactions were taken 

 in from several firms of good standing, but it was considered 

 that the estimate of Messrs M'Farlane & Erskine, the present 

 printers, was more favourable than the others and the contract 

 with them was continued. The estimates show a considerable 

 reduction in the cost of both printing and paper. 



The suggested amalgamation of the Transactions with the 

 English Quarterly Journal of Forestry was considered by a 

 committee of the Council, who reported that they saw no 

 cause to entertain the suggestion on financial grounds, but 

 recommended that the Council should be prepared to consider 

 any suggestion that might be submitted on other grounds. 



