Ropal Scottish Arboricultural Societp. 
Instituted 16th February 1854. 
PATRON, 
HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY THE KING. 
PROCEEDINGS IN 1905—Continued. 
THE GENERAL MEETING. 
A General Meeting of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 
Society was held in the General Meeting Room, beside the 
Members’ Pavilion, in the Highland and Agricultural Society’s 
Show-yard, Scotstoun, Glasgow, on Wednesday, 5th July 1905, 
at 2.15 P.M. W. SteuaRT FoTrHRincHaMm, Esq. of Murthly, 
President, in the chair. 
Apologies for absence were intimated from Sir Kenneth 
Mackenzie, Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael, Colonel Bailey, 
Mr Munro Ferguson, M,P., Hon. Secy., Dr Nisbet, Hon. Editor, 
and others. 
MINUTES. 
The Minutes of the Annual Meeting, held on toth February 
last, were held as read and approved. 
ELECTION OF AN HONORARY MEMBER. 
The President intimated that the Council had approved of the 
suggestion made by Dr Nisbet, that, in recognition ot his dis- 
tinguished services to Technical Education in Forestry, the 
Honorary Membership of the Society should be conferred upon 
REGIERUNGS-RATH Dr Kart Gayer, Emeritus Professor of 
Forestry in the University of Munich. In his letter, Dr Nisbet 
mentioned that Professor Gayer, who for forty years was a 
Professor at the Bavarian Forest Academy, Aschaffenburg, and 
at Munich University (since the commencement of the Forestry 
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