lv CONTENTS. 
PAGK 
REPORTS BY THE HONORARY SCIENTISTS— 
Report by A. W. Borrawick, D.Se., Honorary Consulting 
Cryptogamist, ‘ : A : ; : : 96 
Report by R. Srewarr MacDoveaun, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.E., 
Honorary Consulting Entomologist, 5 ; : : 96 
Nores AND QueERIES:—Sylvicultural Experiments at Novar—Ex- 
perimental Plots at Novar—Estate-conducted Experiments in 
Sylviculture and other Branches of Forestry—The Rate of 
Growth of Pseudotsuga Douglasit in the Woods of Saxony— 
Afforestation of the Talla Water-Catchment Area—The Midland 
Reafforesting Association—The Denbighshire Scheme for an 
Experimental Station—Estate Forest Museums—Irish Forestry 
Station—Forestry Instruction at Armstrong College—Dean Forest 
School of Forestry—Appointments by the General Post Office— 
Demonstration Forest for Scotland—Research at the Indian 
Forest School—Larch Disease on Pinus Laricio and Pinus 
sylvestris—Is Rhododendron barbatum Insectivorous ?—Combating 
Cockchafer Attack in the Nursery—Systematic Destruction of 
Squirrels—Spread of Fungus Diseases by means of Hybernating 
Mycelium—‘‘ Slime-flux”” on Beech Trees—Botanical Survey 
of Scotland—History of the Scottish Peat Mosses—Remarkable 
Conifers in Great Britain—The Value of Willow Timber—A 
New Timber—Creosoted Timber—Wood Preservation by Electro- 
lysis—A ‘‘ Big Tree’s’’ Centuries of Life—Forests in Western 
Australia, : : z F : ‘ : 5 98 
Forestry* APPOINTMENTS :—Professor Somerville—Mr A. C. Forbes— 
Mr J. F. Annand, , : 4 : : 3 = MASI 
REVIEWS AND Notices oF Books— 
Trees: A Handbook of Forest Botany for the Woodlands and the 
Laboratory. By H. MarsHaLtt Warp, Sc.D., F.R.S., etc. Vol. 
III., ‘‘ Flowers and Inflorescences,” : ; t «138 
Departmental Notes on Insects that affect Forestry in India, Part 
Ill. By E. B. Stesprne, Forest Entomologist to the Government 
of India, : ‘ ‘ i : ; ‘ .) Heliob 
Some Recent Books on Forestry, ‘ A p 7 : 135 
OsituAry Notice -—William Mackinnon, ! . ; , 136 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE Roya ScorrisH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
1906. 
List or Members, corrected to December 1906. 
SYLLABUS OF CoMPETITIONS—1907. 
18. Address delivered at the Fifty-fourth Annual General Meeting, 
5th February 1907. By Sir Kenneru J. MAckenzin, Bart. of 
Gairloch, President of the Society, . , é c Be ekst/ 
