Ropal Scottish Arboricultural Society. 
Instituted 16th February 1854. 
PATRON, 
HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY THE KING. 
PROCEEDINGS IN 1906. 
THE ANNUAL MEETING. 
The Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Royal Scottish Arbori- 
cultural Society was held in the Goold Hall, 5 St Andrew Square, 
Edinburgh, on Friday, znd February 1906, at 2.30 p.M. Mr W. 
STEUART FoTHRINGHAM of Murthly, President of the Society, was 
Chairman, and there was a good attendance of Members. 
APOLOGIES’ FOR ABSENCE. 
Apologies for absence were intimated from Mr R. C. Munro 
Ferguson, M.P., Honorary Secretary; Sir Kenneth Mackenzie; 
Colonel Bailey; Sir Archibald Buchan-Hepburn; Mr W. A. Rae, 
Murthly; Mr John D. Sutherland, Oban ; Mr David W. Thomson, 
Edinburgh; and Mr R. V. Mather, Kelso. 
MINUTES. 
The Minutes of the General Meeting held in Glasgow on 
5th July last were held as read and approved of. 
