Kogal ScottisI? ^rboricultural Society. 



Instituted 16th February 1854. 



PATRON 



HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY THE KING. 



PROCEEDINGS IN 1909. 



TIfE ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Fifty-sixth Annual General Meeting of the Royal Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society was held in the Goold Hall, 5 St Andrew 

 Square, Edinburgh, on Friday, 5th February 1909, at 2 p.m. 

 Si' Kenneth J. Mackenzie, Bart, of Gairloch, President, in the 

 CJihair. 



Sir Herbert Maxwell on Forestry and Small Holdings. 



Before beginning the business of the Meeting, the Chairman 

 said that to meet the convenience of several of the Members, and 

 especially of Sir Herbert Maxwell, who was deeply interested in 

 afforestation, he proposed, with the consent of the Meeting, to 

 alter the order of business so as to admit of Sir Herbert making 

 some remarks then, instead of at a later stage, and he called upon 

 Sir Herbert to speak. 



Sir Herbert Maxwell expressed satisfaction that there seemed 

 at last to be a prospect of practical action being taken by the 

 State with regard to forestry. On the recommendations of the 

 Commission on Coast Erosion there might be some divergence 

 of opinion, but the general trend of the Report must, he thought, 

 be regarded as satisfactory. There was one point upon which 

 he would wish to say a word, because, in the present state of 



