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OBITUARY “NOTICES. 
LiEeuT.-COLONEL FRANCIS NEWELL INNES. 
The news of the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Newell 
Innes of Learney, which occurred very suddenly on rath of April 
last, will be received with universal regret, and by none will his 
loss be more felt than by the members of the Royal Scottish 
Arboricultural Society. 
The third, but at his death the only surviving, son of Colonel 
Thomas Innes, who at the ripe age of ninety-three is still an 
active member of more than one public Board in Aberdeen, 
Colonel Francis Innes entered the army in 1866, and served 
with distinction in the Royal Artillery in India, and in the 
Egyptian War of 1882. Retiring in 1886 with the rank of 
Lieutenant-Colonel, he returned to Aberdeen, and took over 
the active management of the family estates of Learney and 
Cullerlie, which were finally handed over to him by his father 
in 1892. 
In addition to his duties on the various public Boards of the 
county, and of commercial undertakings in Aberdeen, in both 
of which he took a prominent place, Colonel Francis Innes 
personally attended to the management of his estates, and in no 
branch of estate management was he more deeply interested or 
more well versed than in that of forestry. He worked his 
woodlands systematically and well, as is abundantly shown, 
not only by the valuable contributions he has made to the local 
records on the subject, but also by the thriving plantations 
now to be seen on the estate. Though not previously a 
member of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, it was 
only natural, when the local Branch was formed in Aberdeen, 
that he should take a prominent share in its inception, and his 
was one of the first names to be proposed for the office of 
Vice-President. 
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