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REPORTS FROM ABERDEEN BRANCH. 
The First Annual Report and Statement of Accounts received 
from the local Branch in Aberdeen were then read by the 
Secretary. (See Appendices D. and E.) 
CHAIRMAN’S REMARKS, 
The CHarrMAN moved the adoption of the various accounts 
and reports, and in doing so referred briefly to the gratifying 
increase in the Membership, and to the satisfactory nature 
of the reports generally. He said that the district where it 
was proposed to hold the Annual Excursion during the 
summer was one of exceptional interest, because natural 
regeneration had there been carried out on a more exten- 
sive scale than anywhere else in the country. The Council 
proposed to hire a room in which its meetings could be held 
and the Society’s books kept, and they hoped it would by and by 
develop into a house to form their headquarters. With regard 
to the Council’s Resolution as to sylviculture, it was proposed 
that it should be submitted to the Secretary for Scotland, who 
should be urged, while considering any agrarian legislation, not 
to forget the claims of sylviculture, nor to bring into his Bill 
anything that would tend to prevent the spread of sylviculture. 
He returned thanks to the Society for his tenure of office, which 
had now come to an end. He was somewhat disappointed that 
the Government had not done more during his time to further 
the interests of forestry, but he believed that considerable 
progress had been made by the Society in spreading interest 
throughout the country. While there had been no public 
recognition of sylviculture in regard to forestry education, the 
idea of forestry was gaining ground. The people were beginning 
to take a certain interest in the question of forestry, and the 
influence of the Society was being more and more widely felt 
every day. He hoped that his successor, at the end of his 
tenure of office, would be able to report considerable progress in 
State forestry. 
OFFICE-BEARERS. 
Mr ForHRINGHAM then moved the election of Sir KENNETH J. 
MACKENZIE, Bart. of Gairloch, as President. 
