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Glasgow ; John Williamson, Grangemouth ; Albert Wilson, 

 Derwent Valley ; Thomas Yool, Jedburgh ; Wm. M. Yool, 

 Edinburgh. 



The presence of a large proportion of estate foresters was 

 a feature which showed that the Committee had not erred in 

 selecting the London district this year. The programme was 

 varied by making the visits to the Exhibition alternate with 

 those to estates and other places of interest in and around 

 London ; and Sunday was left entirely at the disposal of the 

 individual members. Private motor charabancs were used 

 throughout, and called at headquarters each morning. The 

 journey across London was thus accomplished without any 

 trouble to the party, and excellent opportunities were afforded 

 of seeing the Thames Valley during the very pleasant drives 

 to the several estates visited. The Society was fortunate in 

 the weather, as not a drop of rain fell during the Excursion week. 



British Empire Exhibition (1924). 



The Excursion began after breakfast at headquarters on 

 Saturday, 21st June, when a start was made by motor for 

 Wembley, at 9.30. A drive of about three-quarters of an hour 

 across London brought the party to the gates, where the 

 members quickly dispersed in small groups to see the Exhibition 

 at their leisure, not re-assembling until it was time to return at 

 5.30 P.M. Again on Tuesday, 24th, there was no organised 

 programme within the Exhibition, and the procedure w^as as 

 before. But on Thursday, 26th, our Society proceeded to 

 the Scottish Forestry Hall, where they met the Royal English 

 Arboricultural Society, and at 10.15 began a joint tour of the 

 forestry exhibits. Mr Dallimore, Kew Gardens, who was in 

 charge of all the home forestry exhibits, led the joint party first 

 to the English section, the most conspicuous part of which was 

 a fifteenth-century oak timber house. This was said to be an 

 exact copy of a typical dwelling-house of that period, and 

 showed well the possibilities of native oak for constructional 

 work, and the beauty of the graining when properly cut. By 

 way of showing what might be done with native elm, one of 

 the upper rooms had been floored and panelled with this 

 comparatively cheap but very effective timber. Within the 

 house was a collection of antique furniture. 



Outside the Tudor House were numerous specimens of 



