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4584, 3s. 10d. has since been raised by the Society and handed 
over to the University. Aided by an annual subsidy from the 
Board of Agriculture, which the Society was mainly instrumental 
in obtaining, a Course of Lectures at the University has been 
delivered without interruption since 1889. It is recognised, how- 
ever, that a School of Forestry is incomplete without a practical 
training-ground attached to it, which would be available, not only 
for purposes of instruction but also as a Station for Research and 
Experiment, and as a Model Forest, by which Landowners and 
Foresters throughout the country might benefit. The Society 
has accordingly drawn up a Scheme for the Establishment of a 
State Model Forest for Scotland which might serve the above- 
named objects. Copies of this Scheme were laid before the recent 
Departmental Committee on British Forestry, and in_ their 
Report the Committee have recommended the establishment of 
a Demonstration Area and the provision of other educational 
facilities in Scotland. 
Meantime Mr Munro Ferguson, M.P., for a part of whose 
woods at Raith a Working-Plan has been prepared, and is now in 
operation, has very kindly agreed to allow Students to visit them. 
Excursions. 
During the past twenty-seven years, well-organised Excursions, 
numerously attended by Members of the Society, have been made 
annually to various parts of Scotland, England, and Ireland. In 
1895, a Tour extending over twelve days was made through the 
Forests of Northern Germany, in 1902 a Tour extending over 
seventeen days was made in Sweden, and during the summer of 1904 
the Forest School at Nancy and Forests in the north of France were 
visited. These Excursions enable Members whose occupations 
necessarily confine them chiefly to a single locality to study the 
conditions and methods prevailing elsewhere; and the Council 
propose to extend the Tours during the next few years to other 
parts of the Continent. They venture to express the hope that 
Landowners may be induced to afford facilities to their Foresters 
for participation in these Tours, the instructive nature of which 
renders them well worth the moderate expenditure of time and 
money that they involve. 
Exhibitions. 
A Forestry Exhibition is annually organised in connection with 
the Highland and Agricultural Society’s Show, in which are exhibited 
specimens illustrating the rate of growth of trees, different kinds of 
wood, pit-wood and railway timber, insect pests and samples of the 
damage done by them, tools and implements, manufactured articles 
peculiar to the district where the Exhibition is held, and other 
objects of interest relating to Forestry. Prizes and Medals are also 
offered for Special Exhibits. 
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