

CONTENTS OF VOL. VIII. 



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

 opinions advanced in the several papers, which must rest entirely on the authority 

 of the respective authors. 



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I. Address delivered at the Twenty-second Annual Meeting. By 

 John Hutton Balfour, M.D., M.A., F.R.SS.L. & E., Pro 

 fessor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh, 



II. Experiments in Planting Sand-hills. By James Hutton, 

 Forester, Moy, ..... 



III. On the Present State and Prospects of Arboriculture in Hamp 



shire. By Andrew Peebles, Highclere Castle, Newbury, 



IV. Pruning in relation to the'Troduction of Timber. By John B 



Smyth, Forester, Duff House, 



V. The Failures of the Larch. By William Gorrie, Rait Lodge 

 Trinity, ...... 



25 



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61 



VI. On the Age at which various Timber Trees in Scotland may be 

 most Profitably Felled. By D. F. M'Kenzie, Forester, Mel- 

 drum House, ....... 70 



VII. On the Distances at which Forest Trees should be Planted on 

 different Soils and Situations. By Lewis Bayne, Forester, 

 Kinmel Park, Abergele, ..... 77 



VIII. The Age of Trees, ...... 84 



IX. On the most Profitable Mode of disposing of Home-grown Tim- 

 ber. By D. F. M'Kenzie, Forester, Meldrum House, . . S8 



X. On the Anatornical.Structure of the Leaf as a means of determining 

 the species of Abies. By W. R. M'Nab, M.D., Professor of 

 Botany, Royal College of Science, Dublin (with Plate), . 93 



XI. On the Timber Supply of Australia. By the Hon. Mr Krichauff, 

 Member 'jai Legislative Assembly of South Australia. With 

 Note by R. Hutchison of Carlowrie, V.-P.S. A.Soc, . 110 



