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ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT, NOVEMBER 4, 1874. 



— Timber Trades' Journal, vol. i. p. 244. 



There are several subjects connected with the pursuits of our 

 Society upon which much information has been elicited during the 

 past year to which I shall simply refer before passing on to what 

 is doing in other countries. The " Timber Trades' Journal," a fort- 

 nightly paper, has recently been established for the purpose of 

 affording a medium of intercommunication between producers and 

 consumers of wood at home and abroad. It contains much reliable 

 information regarding the principal timber markets in Europe and 

 America. The "Gardener's Chronicle" and "Agricultural Gazette" 

 have also during the year had many articles on the subject of 

 forestry, contributed by well-known members of this Society. Our 

 friend Mr M'Nab has drawn attention to two subjects of consider- 

 able importance: — 1st, The disfiguration of roadside trees by the un- 

 skilful lopping to which they are subjected to make way for tele- 

 graph wires (" Bot. Soc. Trans.," xi. 453); 2d, The preservation of 

 remarkable or old trees (" Bot. Soc. Trans.," xii. 44 and 96),- which 

 appears to be a matter coming within the scope of our Society, on 

 which his matured views might find expression in our Transactions. 

 Sir Robert Christison has vigorously laboured in the same direction, 

 expiscating the records of old trees and measuring the dimensions of 

 the fossil plants in this neighbourhood ("Roy. Soc. Trans.," xxvii. 203, 



