CONTENTS. 



The Society, as a body, is not, to be considered responsible for any facts or 

 opinions adcanced in the several paper*, which must rest entirely on the authority 

 of the respective authors. 



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I — Address delivered at the Nineteenth Annual Meeting. By Hugh 

 Cleghorn, M.D., F.R.S.E., late Conservator of Forests, 

 Madras, ....... 1 



II. — On the Quantity of Rain which Falls in a Wooded Country as 

 compared with an Unwooded. By Robert Hutchison, Esq. 

 of Carlowrie, F.R.S.E., . . . . . . 10 



III. — Report on an Arboretum at Cluny Castle, Aberdeenshire. By 



William Gilchrist, Forester, Cluny Castle. With a Plan. . 19 



IV. — Report on the Houston Pinetum. By William Tivendale, 



Forester, Houston, Paisley, ..... 38 



V. — Report on the Comparative Advantages of the different Methods 

 of Pruning. By Andrew Gilchrist, Forester, Urie House, 

 Stonehaven, ....... 4(> 



VI. — On the Value of the Corsican, Austrian, and Douglas Firs, as 

 Timber Trees in Great Britain, and on their Adaptation to 

 different Soils and Situations. By Robert Hutchison, Esq. 

 of Carlowrie, F.R.S.E., 52 



VII. — Report on a Collection of Geological Specimens, with an Outline 

 of the Geological and Arboricultural Features of Buteshire. By 

 James Kay, Forester, Bute Estate, Rothesay, . . 60 



VIII. — On Different Modes of Profitably Disposing of Home-Grown 



Timber. By David Tait, Forester, Owston Park, Doncaster, 72 



IX. — On the most certain Method of getting rid of Beetles which 

 affect Coniferoe. By William Tivendale, Forester, Houston, 

 Paisley, 80 



X. — On the Best Modes of Starting from Seed, or Rearing from 

 Cuttings or Grafts the various newer Coniferse. By John 

 Alexander, Assistant Forester, Abemethy, Strathspey, . 84 



XL— On the Distribution of Forests in India. By Dietrich Brandis, 



Ph.D., Inspector-General of Forests, Calcutta. With a Map, 88 



APPENDIX. 



List of Members, corrected to August 1873, .... 1 



Prize Essays, &c, for 1872-73, . . . . . .18 



Laws of the Society, ....... 20 



Office-Bearers for 1872-73, . . . . • .21 



