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was hopeful that a forest area would be provided for Scotland, 
and that a Forestry Department within the Board of Agriculture 
would be established. A detailed report of the interview was 
prepared by the President, and was published on page 323 of 
Volume XIX. of the Zransactions. 
Forestry Exhibition, 
The Annual Forestry Exhibition was last year held at Peebles. 
The Judges’ Report was printed in the proceedings of the 
General Meeting which was held at Peebles in the course of 
the Exhibition week, and a report of the Exhibition, prepared 
by Mr Annand, Convener of the Committee, will be found on 
page 87 of the last issue of the Zvansactions (Vol. XX. Part I.). 
From the Judges’ Report it will be seen that they awarded 
only £18 out of the £20 offered by the Highland and 
Agricultural Society, and that in addition they awarded 
one Gold Medal, six No. 1 Silver Medals, six No. 2 Silver 
Medals, and two Bronze Medals. Short lectures were de- 
livered on each day of the Exhibition, as follows, viz.:— 
By Mr Annand, on “The Exhibits”; by Mr Munro Ferguson, on 
“The Present Position as regards Instruction in Sylviculture”; 
by Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, on “ Hill-Planting” ; and by Mr 
A. D. Richardson, on “The Larch Disease Fungus.” These 
lectures have appeared or will appear in the Zransactions. Mr 
Annand was kind enough to provide the necessary attendants, 
and special thanks are due to him for the great trouble he took 
in connection with the Exhibition. 
A request was submitted to the Directors of the Highland 
and Agricultural Society that they should allow the Members 
of this Society special terms for admission to the Exhibition, but 
they replied that they could not grant any special favours to the 
Members of this Society without granting similar privileges to 
others which they had always refused. 
The Exhibition is to be held in Edinburgh this year, and the 
Schedules have been revised and issued to the Members. The 
Committee are—Messrs J. W. M‘Hattie (Convener), John Boyd, 
A. T. Gillanders, F.E.S., G. U. Macdonald, D. F. Mackenzie, 
F.S.I., and Adam Spiers. 
The General Meeting. 
The General Meeting was held last year in the Showyard of 
the Highland and Agricultural Society at Peebles in the course 
of the Exhibition week, and was well attended. The printed 
Minutes, which were bound up with last 7ransactions, contain a 
full report of the proceedings. 
