APPENDIX D. 
RoyaL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY (ABERDEEN BRANCH). 
Report by the Committee of the Proceedings of the Branch to 
the First Annual General Meeting. 
The Branch was inaugurated on the 18th May 1906, at a 
meeting of the Society held in the Douglas Hotel, Aberdeen, 
presided over by the President, Mr W. Steuart Fothringham 
of Murthly. 
Since its inauguration the Branch has held two Excursions— 
one to Drumtochty on gth June, and the other to Huntly on 
1st September—and a General Meeting on 13th October. 
Both the Excursions were well attended by the Members. 
Reports on these Excursions have been drawn up by Mr C. S. 
France and Mr John Clark respectively, and they will be sub- 
mitted to this meeting. 
At the General Meeting held in the Botanical Class-room, 
Marischal College, on 13th October, a paper was read by 
Mr C. S. France on “The Larch and its Diseases.” Owing to 
the inclemency of the weather, the meeting was not so well 
attended as it otherwise would have been. 
The Committee had been fortunate in securing the use of the 
Botanical Class-room, Marischal College, for the meetings of the 
Branch, and the thanks of the Branch is due to the Senatus of 
Aberdeen University for this privilege. The thanks of the 
Branch is also due to Professor Traill for the trouble taken by 
him in securing the use of the Class-room, and for giving the 
Branch the use of his diagrams, appliances, etc. In the district 
comprising the Branch—the counties of Aberdeen, Kincardine, 
and Banff—there are some 100 Members of the parent 
Society, but only 57 of these have, as yet, affiliated them- 
selves to the Branch. This number does not include assistant- 
foresters and assistant-gardeners, of which there are eight. The 
Committee hopes that all Members of the parent body resident 
in the district will become Members of the Branch before the 
next Annual Meeting. 
