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Canadian Forestry Convention. 
A copy of the Report of this Convention, which was held in 
the beginning of last year, has now been received, and added to 
the Library. . 
Library. 
A list of additions to the Library since last Annual Meeting is 
appended to this Report. (See Appendix G.) 
Register of Foresters. 
A number of men have received appointments through the 
Register in the course of the year, but greater use might be 
made of the Register both by proprietors and estate men 
Laws. 
The Laws and By-Laws have now been revised, and a proof, 
as approved by the Council, has been sent to all the Members of 
the Society. Notice will be given at this meeting of a motion to 
the effect that these Laws and By-Laws be adopted in place of 
the existing Laws and By-Laws. This motion will come up for 
discussion at next Annual Meeting, and, if adopted, the new 
Laws and By-Laws will then come into operation. 
Royal Institution, Edinburgh. 
It will be in the recollection of Members that about eighteen 
months ago representatives from this and various scientific 
societies having headquarters in Edinburgh, waited upon the 
Secretary for Scotland, and asked that the Royal Institution 
here might be set apart for the housing of these societies. 
The object desired was not then attained, as it was ultimately 
decided by the Government that the Royal Institution should 
be entirely given over to the purposes of art; but when the 
National Galleries Bill was recently before the House of 
Commons, a movement was again made by certain societies 
in Edinburgh with the view of securing rooms, along with the 
Royal Society, in any building the Government might purchase 
for the use of that Society in lieu of the present accom- 
modation in the Royal Institution. The Council authorised 
Mr Munro Ferguson to act in the interests of this Society, and he 
accordingly interviewed the Secretary for Scotland in the matter. 
The reply he received was to the effect that it would not be 
