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which was to the Forest of Dean. On the occasion of the 

 Society's Jubilee in 1904 he was elected an Honorary 

 Member, which is the highest honour in the gift of the Society. 

 He was a member of the 1902 Departmental Committee on 

 British Forestry, of which Mr Munro Ferguson was chairman, 

 and rendered valuable assistance to Lord Lovat and Captain 

 Stirling of Keir, in the drawing up of their report on the survey 

 of Glen Mor. He also drew up a scheme for a demonstration 

 area in Scotland, 



The above notes have been chiefly confined to Colonel 

 Bailey's activities in connection with forestry, but he was a 

 man of wide interests and was connected with many scientific 

 bodies in Edinburgh. Thus for twelve years he acted as 

 Secretary to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and after 

 his retirement in 1903 continued to work actively for that 

 Society as a member of its Council. He was also a member 

 of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, of which at one time 

 he acted as President, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh, as well as of the Royal Geographical Society of 

 London. In recognition of his services, the University of 

 Edinburgh conferred upon him the degree of LL.D., in July 191 2. 



The debt which the Society and the cause of forestry in 

 Scotland owes to Colonel Bailey is indicated in the following 

 remarks by Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, the retiring President of 

 the Society, who, in the course of his speech at the Annual 

 Meeting on 7th February 1913, said: — 



"He was one of the oldest, and ablest, and to the very end 

 one of the keenest and most useful among the heroes who have 

 worked for Forestry in Scotland. When that great industry 

 takes its proper place, as please God it soon will, in this 

 country, I trust that his name will be remembered with the 

 gratitude and honour which it deserves. During recent years 

 Colonel Bailey's work has been confined to the Transactions, 

 and illness has compelled him for the most part to work out 

 of sight. To a Society like ours, a Society with scattered 

 members, its published Transactions means nearly as much as 

 mortar means to a wall. The excellent volumes which have 

 issued from Colonel Bailey's study have not only served to 

 hold us together, but they have also given direction to our 

 movement, and they have won a place for themselves and 

 for him in the forestry literature of Europe." 



