Mr John Booth, Berlin ; Mr J. Burn-Murdoch of Gartencaber ; 

 Sir James Gibson Craig of Riccarton ; Sir Charles Dundas of 

 Dunira ; and Mr Thomas Braid, Factor, Durris. 



Syllabus and Prizes. 



The Syllabus of Competitions for 1908 was issued along with 

 the January part of the Transactions of that year. It included 2 1 

 subjects for Essays, but only 3 Essays were received in com- 

 petition, and none of them were for the more valuable prizes 

 offered. The awards given were — one No. 2 Silver Medal and two 

 Bronze Medals. The Syllabus for 1909 was included in the 

 January part of the Transactions recently issued to Memb'ers. 



Donors. 



The thanks of the Society are due to the Directors of the 

 Highland and Agricultural Society for renewing their grant of 

 ;^20 for home-grown timber to be exhibited in the Forestry 

 Exhibition in the Show-yard at Stirling, and to the Executive 

 Committee of the Scottish National Exhibition for granting 

 free space to the Society for their exhibit of Forestry in that 

 Exhibition during the past year. Thanks are also due to 

 Messrs Massie, Thomson, and Methven, for again renewing 

 their offers of prizes for subjects in the present year's Syllabus. 



Transactions. 



The Council feel that the Honorary Editor and the Transactions 

 Comrrtittee are to be congratulated upon the punctuality with 

 which the Transactions now appear on the due date, and they 

 believe that the work of the Honorary Editor and his Committee 

 is much appreciated by the Members. 



Local Branches. 



The Aberdeen and Northern Branches continue to do excellent 

 work, as will be seen from the reports to be submitted to the 

 Meeting at a later stage. 



Forestry Exhibition. 



The Annual Forestry Exhibition was last year held at Aberdeen. 

 The Judges on that occasion were Messrs Gillanders, 

 Annand, and Munro, and their report was, as usual, printed in 

 full in the proceedings of the General Meeting, which was held 

 in Edinburgh on 5th August. A report of the Exhibition will 

 also be found on page 89 of Vol. XXH. of the Transactions. 

 There were fewer entries than usual under the exhibits of 

 timber; and only jQi^ of the ^^20 offered by the Highland and 



