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CONTENTS, 
The Value of Waste Land for Afforestation Purposes. By A. C. 
Forbes, Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 
A Century of Forestry—1806 to 1906—on the Estate of Learney, 
Aberdeenshire (with Plan) By the late Lieutenant-Colonel 
Francis N. INNEs, . ; 
Soil: its Origin and Nature. By Professor James Geikiz, LL.D., 
DEOli, HERS:, 
The Utilisation of the Nitrogen of the Air. By ALEXANDER LAUDER, 
D.Se., Honorary Consulting Chemist to the Society, 
The Accumulation of Nitrogen in Forest Soils. By ALEXANDER 
LAuDER, D.Sc., 
. Forests and Rainfall. By R. C. Mossman, F.R.S.E., F.R.Met.Soc., 
Houorary Consulting Meteorologist to the Society, . 
. Arboricultural Notes from Portuguese East Africa (with two Plates). 
By J. A. ALEXANDER, 
. A Session at the Eberswalde Forest Academy. By A. F. Witson, 
O.D.A.(Kdin.), 
Encouragement of Private Forestry. By Professor ScHWAPPACH. 
(Translated by A. W. Borruwicr, D.Sc.), 
The Woods of Somerset. By W. G. SmirH, Ph.D., D.Sc., The 
University, Leeds, . 
Notes on Indian Forestry in 1906. By Joun Nisser, D.Cc., 
Forestry in the Exhibition at Niirnberg, 
Aberdeen Branch :— 
Excursion to Drumtochty, Kincardineshire, 9th June 1906, 
Excursion to Strathbogie, Aberdeenshire, 1st September 1906, 
NovrEs AND QuERIES:—The English Elm in Scotland—Note on the 
Beech Felt Scale (with Plate)—Resistance of Young Trees to 
Drought—Diseased Scots Pine on Land formerly Arable—Degree in 
Forestry at the Edinburgh University—The Study of Continental 
Forests—Educational Excursions— School of Forestry in the Forest 
of Dean—The Yale Forest School—Timber-Supply from Sweden— 
‘*From the Ice Age to the Present ”—Reforestation in Scotland— 
The Denbighshire Experimental Station—The Isle of Man Arbori- 
cultural Society—Use of Creosote Oil in the United States— 
Ordnance Survey Maps of the United Kingdom, 
Opnituarny NoricEs:—Lieutenant-Colonel Francis N. Innes of Learney 
—M. Lucien Boppe, . 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE RoyaL ScorrisH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
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