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report at present. Meantime the Council have heard with 
much appreciation of the generous action of Mr John Mahler 
of Penissa Glyn, Bonygarth, Chirk, North Wales, in presenting 
to the Denbighshire County Council 50 acres of land for the 
purpose of an experimental station, by which the County Council 
is enabled to give effect to the recommendation of the recent 
Departmental Committee on Forestry, where it says, “that it is 
exceedingly desirable that College instruction in Forestry should 
be illustrated by means of example plots.” These 50 acres 
will be the property of the County Council of Denbigh, but will 
be under the direction of the lecturer on Forestry in the 
University of North Wales, Bangor. The Council congratulated 
Mr Mahler on his public spirit, and thanked him for sending 
copies of his pamphlet on the subject. 
Local Branches. 
Mr Crozier, forester, Durris, Drumoak, having represented to 
the Council that there was a desire amongst the members resident 
in Aberdeenshire that a local branch of the Society should be 
established there, the Council considered the matter, and while 
expressing their approval of the principle of local branches, they 
remitted to a Committee to go into the subject more fully and to 
report. The Committee’s report has now been printed and 
approved by the Council, and will be submitted at a later 
stage of the proceedings. 
Proposed Journal of Forestry. 
At a recent meeting of the Council, Mr GILLANDERs, on behalf 
of the Royal English Arboricultural Society, mentioned that 
that Society had recently been considering the advisability of 
starting a Journal of Forestry, but that they thought it was very 
desirable that this Society should take a leading part in the 
venture, and suggested that a meeting of representatives of both 
Societies should be held at York to discuss the matter. The 
Council, however, thought it advisable in the first instance to 
appoint a Committee to consider the subject and report. The 
report has now been received, and the matter will be brought 
before the meeting at a later stage. 
St Louis Exhibition. 
Since last meeting a communication has been received from 
Colonel Watson, Secretary of the Royal Commission, sending a 
photographic reproduction of the reverse side of the Silver Medal 
awarded to the Society for the Photographs exhibited at St Louis, 
and an extract from a letter from the Secretary of Awards to the 
