TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I. Darnaway Forest. 



An Example of Afforestation in the Eighteenth Century, 



BEING THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 



BY THE Rt. Hon. The Earl of Moray — 1924. 



INTRODUCTION. 



I think it must be a matter of great satisfaction to the 

 Council, and those who have the interest of this Society at 

 heart, to see the growing attention paid by the public at the 

 Annual Exhibition. My mind runs back as far as 1884, when, 

 as I believe, the first Forestry Exhibition was held, in the 

 neighbourhood of Donaldson's Hospital in Edinburgh. It 

 proved a great success. A similar exhibition was held in 

 London in the succeeding year, and this was followed by a 

 series in after years, but it was, I think, the Forestry Exhibition 

 which gave the incentive to the movement; and forestry has 

 received in the period intervening an increasing amount of 

 interest and attention, and gained immensely in popularity. 



If I were asked to explain the cause, I should be inclined to 

 attribute it to the modern method of study in botany which 

 is the foundation, at any rate, of sound arboriculture. In 1874 

 the work on " Structural Botany " by Julius Sachs, Professor 

 at the University of Wiirzburg, was translated into English by 

 A. W. Bennett and W. T. Thiselton Dyer, subsequently Director 

 of Kew Gardens. Shortly afterwards Mr Sidney Vines returned 

 to Cambridge from a course of study in Germany, and 

 established a laboratory for the teaching of botany, as Reader 

 to the Professor. Sidney Vines a few years later was 

 transferred to Oxford, when Professor Bayley Balfour, our late 



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