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APPENDIX D. 



Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society (Aberdeen Branch) 

 REPORT 1922. 



The Committee beg to submit Seventeenth Annual Report 

 of the Branch. 



The membership of the Branch is 165, four having joined 

 in the course of the year. 



The Committee have to report, with deep regret, the loss 

 sustained by the Branch through the death of Mr A. F. Irvine 

 of Drum, who had become a Life Member of the Society in 1906, 

 and had been a member of the Branch since its inauguration 

 the same year. He held the office of President of the Branch 

 for two periods, and also served at various times on the Council 

 of the Society, During all these years, and in all capacities, 

 he had devoted himself whole-heartedly to the welfare of the 

 Branch, and to the science and practice of forestry. 



The usual activities of the Branch have been carried on 

 during the year, two formal meetings — on loth December 192 1, 

 and 2ist October 1922 — and two excursions — on 17th June and 

 1 6th September, having been held. 



At the Annual Meeting and Luncheon in December, after 

 the formal business had been transacted, Mr Peter Leslie, M.A., 

 B.Sc, Lecturer on Forestry, Aberdeen University, gave an 

 address, his subject being " Species and Climate." 



On the occasion of the June meeting, members of the 

 Branch had the privilege, on the invitation of Lord Forbes, of 

 visiting the woods of Castles Forbes. Lord Forbes personally 

 conducted the party over his woods, and the company was 

 hospitably entertained to tea by Lord and Lady Forbes in the 

 afternoon. 



The September meeting took the form of an excursion to 

 the woods of Durris, on the invitation of Mr H. R. Baird, who 

 also entertained the party to tea. At the Business Meeting of 

 the Society, held in the course of the day, Lord Clinton, who 

 was present, gave a short address, in the course of which he 

 referred to the work of the Forestry Commission, and to the 

 Bill before Parliament, which has for its object the giving of 

 grants to private owners, so as to encourage planting. An 

 interesting discussion also took place on the suitability, or 

 otherwise, of Sitka spruce for growth in this country. 



