methods prevailing elsewhere; and the Council propose to extend 

 the Tours during the next few years to other parts of the Continent. 

 They venture to express the hope that Landowners may be induced 

 to afford facilities to their Foresters for participation in these Tours, 

 the instructive nature of which renders them well worth the 

 moderate expenditure of time and money that they involve. 



Exhibitions. 



A Forestry Exhibition is annually organised in connection Vt^ith 

 the Highland and Agricultural Society's Show, in which are exhibited 

 specimens illustrating the rate of growth of trees, different kinds of 

 wood, pit-wood and railway timber, insect pests and samples of the 

 damage done by them, tools and implements, manufactured articles 

 peculiar to the district where the Exhibition is held, and other 

 objects of interest relating to Forestry. Prizes and Medals are also 

 offered for Special Exhibits. In addition to the Annual Exhibition 

 before referred to, large and important Forestry Sections organised by 

 this Society were included in the Scottish National Exhibition held 

 in Edinburgh in 1908, and in the Scottish Exhibition of National 

 History, Art, and Industry, held in Glasgow last summer. 



The Society's Transactions. 



The Trmisactions of the Society, which extend to twenty-five 

 volumes, are now published half-yearly in January and July, and are 

 issued gratis to Members. A large number of the Prize Essays and 

 other valuable Papers, and reports of the Annual Excursions, have 

 appeared in them, and have thus become available to Students as 

 well as to those actively engaged in the Profession of Forestry. 



Honorary Consulting Officials. 



Members have the privilege of obtaining information gratuitously 

 upon subjects connected with Forestry from the following Honorary 

 Officials appointed by the Society. 



Consulting Bota7iist. — Isaac Bayley Balfour, LL.D., M.D., Sc.D., 

 Professor of Botany, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 



Consulting Chemist. — Alexander Lauder, D.Sc, 13 George Square, 

 Edinburgh. 



Consulting Cryptogamist. — A. W. Borthwick, D.Sc., Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh. 



Consulting Entotnoloi^ist. — Robert Stewart MacDougall, M.A., 

 D.Sc, Professor of Entomology, etc., 9 Dryden Place, Edinburgh. 



Consulting Geologist. — R. Campbell, M.A., B.Sc, Geological Labora- 

 tory, University of EdinVjurgh. 



Consulting Meteorologist. — Andrew Watt, M.A., F.R.S.E., Secretary 

 Scottish Meteorological Society, 122 George Street, Edinburgh. 



Local Branches. 



Local Branches have been established in Aberdeen and 

 Inverness for the convenience of Members who reside in the 

 districts surrounding these centres. 



Local Secretaries. 



The Society is represented throughout Scotland, England, and 

 Ireland by the Local Secretaries whose names are given below. They 



