APPENDIX D. 



Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society (Aberdeen Branch). 

 REPORT 1923. 



The Committee beg to submit the Eighteenth Annual Report 

 of the Branch. The membership of the Branch is 164. 



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

 sustained by the Branch through the death of two of the oldest 

 members of the Society, and original members of the Branch, 

 namely, Mr John Clark, formerly forester at Haddo House, and 

 Mr George Wyllie, formerly forester at Ballogie. Both gentle- 

 men were practical foresters of the best type, and both had done 

 a great deal of useful work for the Society and for forestry 

 generally. 



The usual activities of the Branch had been carried on 

 during the year — two formal meetings, on 9th December 1922 

 and 20th October 1923, and two excursions, on I2th-i3th 

 June and 25th August, having been held. 



At the Annual Meeting and Luncheon in December, after 

 the formal business had been transacted, Mr John Sutherland, 

 C.B.E., of the Forestry Commission, Edinburgh, gave an 

 interesting and instructive address on " Spruce in Scottish 

 Forestry." 



The June Meeting took the form of a joint excursion between 

 the Northern and the Aberdeen Branches. The Aberdeen party 

 travelled to Nairn on the afternoon of 12th June, and had their 

 headquarters in the Station Hotel, where they were met by a 

 few of the Northern party. After supper, presided over by Sir 

 John R. Gladstone, Colonel Sutherland gave an address on 

 " The Nature of the Operations and Aspirations of the Forestry 

 Commission," giving full details of the work done by the Com- 

 mission in the North, and also in regard to the establishment of 

 a Chair of Forestry in Aberdeen University. 



On the same evening Mr C. S. France, the oldest member of 

 the Society, and one of the Founders of this Branch, was the 

 recipient of gifts from members of the Branch, the occasion 

 being his eightieth birthday. The gifts to Mr France took the 

 form of a silver snuff-box, suitably inscribed, along with a wallet 

 of Treasury notes, and an amethyst necklace to Miss France. 



