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M‘Hartig, Superintendent of City Parks, Council Chambers, 
Edinburgh ; JoHn LetsHman, Manager, Cavers Estate, Hawick ; 
HENRY HENDERSON, Overseer, Dawyck Estate, Stobo, Peebles. 
The General Meeting. 
The General Meeting was held in the Showyard, Scotstoun, 
Glasgow, in the course of the Exhibition week, and was attended 
by a large number of Members. The printed Minutes contain a 
full Report ofthe Proceedings. 
Excursion. 
The Excursion last year was held in the west of Scotland, the 
places visited being the Society’s Forestry Exhibition, the City 
Parks in Glasgow, Benmore in Argyllshire, Cessnock, Lanfine, 
Loudon, ete., in Ayrshire, and Erskine and Pollok in the 
neighbourhood of Glasgow. About seventy members attended. 
At the close of the Excursion it was found that there was a 
surplus in hand of about £16, and the Committee, with the 
approval of the Council, resolved to present to each member of 
the party who had paid his full share of the expenses, an 
enlarged photograph of the group taken at Benmore or Cessnock, 
and to present copies to the Proprietors and others who had 
_received and entertained the party. Mr Richardson, the 
Society’s photographer, has the photographs in hand, and 
reports that he hopes to have the whole of them issued to the 
members by the end of this week. A full Report of the 
Excursion will be found in the Zyransactions. 
At the General Meeting the Council recommended that the 
Excursion next year should be made in the district round 
Newcastle.’ This was approved of, and the matter was remitted 
back to the Council, with powers. The programme sketched out 
by the Council is as follows :—Headquarters, Newcastle—two 
days to be devoted to Alnwick estates, one to Cragside, and 
one to Lambton Park and the Technical College, Newcastle. 
The various proprietors have been kind enough to grant the 
necessary permission, and the arrangements will be proceeded 
with in due course. The Duke of Northumberland has expressed 
a wish that the visit should be made as early as possible in 
August. 
Last year an application was made by the Secretary to the 
various Scottish railway companies to have the Society placed 
upon the. permanent list of Societies whose members are 
entitled to cheap fares from any part of the country to the head- 
quarters of the Society wherever they may be at the time of the 
Excursion. In reply to this application, the railway companies 
pointed out that as their arrangements last year for cheap fares 
