Election of Office-Bearers. 



On the motion of the Chairman, the Right Honourable the 

 Earl of Moray was unanimously elected President, in succession 

 to His Grace the Duke of Atholl, K.T. The following other 

 Office-bearers were then elected : — Vice-President — George Leven, 

 Bowmont Forest; Councillors — James Whitton, J. P., V.M.H., 

 Glasgow; Professor W. Wright Smith, M.A., F.R.S.E., F.L.S., 

 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh ; Alfred G. Crabbe, forester, 

 Glamis ; the Right Hon. the Earl of Leven and Melville ; 

 and William Fyfe, forester, Whittingehame. The other Officials 

 and Honorary Officials were re-elected, and also the Local 

 Secretaries, with the following three additions : — Renfrewshire — 

 A. D. Baker, forester, Ardgowan, Greenock; Forfarshire — 

 Alfred Crabbe, forester, Glamis ; Cumberland — Harry Abbott, 

 forester, Irton Hall. 



Sir John R. Gladstone, Bart, of Fasque, moved that the 

 meeting place on record their sincere thanks to the Duke of 

 Atholl on retiring from the Presidency, and their grateful 

 appreciation of the benefits which the Society has received 

 from his efforts : this resolution was unanimously adopted. 



Excursion. 



Mr Buchanan, Convener of the Excursion Committee, 

 moved that the Society adopt the Council's recommendation 

 that the Excursion for 1924 be held in the London district, with 

 a view to visiting the British Empire Exhibition, at which there 

 was to be a Scottish Forestry exhibit. He suggested that they 

 might also visit Windsor, or Hatfield, and Kew. The date 

 suggested was from 20th to 28th June. The matter was 

 remitted to the Council with powers. (For Accounts, see 

 Appendix C.) 



Forestry Commission. 



Colonel Steuart Fothringham, representing the Forestry 

 Commission, said : " I had not come prepared to say anything, 

 but I can give you, perhaps very shortly, a resume of what the 

 Forestry Commission is doing in Scotland. As you know, we 

 started with a very small programme of planting— some 1500 acres 

 between England and Scotland, to be gradually expanded. We 

 were fortunate enough to get rather ahead of that programme, 



