Hogal Scottisl? ^rbortcultural Society 



Instituted 16th February 1854. 



PATRON : 



HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE KING. 



PROCEEDINGS IN 1924. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Seventy-first Annual Meeting of the Royal Scottish Arbori- 

 cultural Society was held in the Goold Hall, 5 St Andrew 

 Square, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, 6th February 1924, 

 at 2.15 P.M. His Grace the Duke of Atholl, K.T., President 

 of the Society, being indisposed, Mr James Whitton, J. P., 

 V.M.H., Senior Vice-President, was in the chair. 



Minutes. 



The Minutes of the Meeting held at Inverness, having been 

 printed and circulated, were held as read. 



Apologies for Absence. 



Apologies for absence were intimated from The Duke of 

 Atholl ; the Earl of Stair : Sir Kenneth Mackenzie ; Sir Hugh 

 Shaw Stewart ; Sir Archibald Campbell ; Captain G. I. 

 Campbell ; and Messrs James M'Laren, James Hardie, Alex- 

 ander Morgan, A. B. Robertson, Hagart Spiers, Sydney J. 

 Gammell, James Johnstone, D. K. Michie, and J. R. Alexander. 



Report by the Council. 



The Secretary read the Annual Report of the Council as 



follows : — 



Membership. 



In last Annual Report the membership was stated at 1724, 

 but, in the course of revising the roll for printing, it was found 

 that a number of members had lapsed since last list was printed 



