Hogal Scottish ^rbortciiltuml Socictg* 



Instituted 16th February 1854. 



PATRON : 



HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY THE KLNG. 



PROCEEDINGS IN 1913. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Sixtieth Annual General Meeting of the Royal Scottish 

 ArboricLiltural Society was held in the Queen's Hall, 5 Queen 

 Street, Edinburgh, on Friday, 7th February 1913, at 2.30 p.m. 

 Sir John Stirling- Maxwell, Bart., President of the Society, 

 was Chairman, and there was a large attendance of Members. 



Apologies. 



Apologies for absence were intimated from Lord Lovat, 

 Lord Sinclair, the Right Hon. R. C. Munro Ferguson, M.P., 

 Dr Nisbet, Sir Robert Buchanan Jardine, Bart., Captain Sprot, 

 Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., Messrs J. Grant Thomson, A. Mitchell, 

 W. S. Curr, Jas. Johnston, W. Storie, Donald M'Lean, D. Scott, 

 and Dr W. G. Smith. 



Minutes. 



The Secretary submitted the Minutes of the General Meeting, 

 held at Cupar on Thursday, nth July last, which had already 

 been printed and circulated along with the January Transactions, 

 and these were approved and adopted. 



Report by the Council. 

 The Secretary read the following Report by the Council : — 

 The Council is glad to be able to report that considerable 

 progress has been made in the course of the year, although in 

 some respects results have been disappointing. 



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