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APPENDIX D. 



Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society (Aberdeen Branch). 

 REPORT 1908. 



The Committee beg to submit the Third Annual Report of 

 the Branch. 



During the year, interest in the Society's work in the area 

 comprised in the Branch has been well sustained, and increased 

 interest in Forestry has been manifested among all branches in 

 the community. 



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

 one on 23rd May, when a paper was read by Mr William 

 Dawson, M.A., B.Sc, Lecturer on Forestry in the Aberdeen 

 and North of Scotland Agricultural College, on "German 

 Forestry"; and the other on 23rd July, at the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society's Show in Aberdeen, when a paper was 

 read by Mr Gillanders, Forester, Alnwick Castle, Northumber- 

 land, on " The Educational and Economic Value of Forestry 

 Exhibitions." One Excursion was also held to the Estates 

 of Forglen and Hatton. A report of the Excursion will be 

 submitted to this meeting by Mr C. S. France, 



A most successful Exhibition, under the auspices of the 

 Society, vvas held in connection with the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society's Show at Aberdeen in July. The number of 

 exhibits was not so large as the Committee had hoped, but this 

 may be fully accounted for by the Forestry Pavilion maintained 

 by the Society during the Scottish National Exhibition in 

 Edinburgh. The arrangements for the Exhibition at Aberdeen 

 were carried out under a Committee of the parent Society, 

 consisting chiefly of Members of the Branch. The thanks of 

 the Branch are especially due to Mr C. S. France, for the 

 efficient way in which he looked after the arrival, arrangement, 

 and despatch of the exhibits. 



The number of Members of the parent Society resident in the 

 counties of Aberdeen, Kincardine, and Banff is at present 108. 

 Of these the number who are actual Members of the Branch 

 is 57. The subscriptions of some Members — who cannot for this 



