Finances. 



The General Accounts were then submitted by Mr John 

 Methven, Convener of the Finance Committee, and the 

 Dunn Memorial Fund and Excursion Fund Accounts by the 

 Secretary, and were approved. (See Appendices A, B and C.) 



Reports of the Branches. 



The Secretary read the reports from Aberdeen Branch (see 

 Appendices D and E), and mentioned that the report of the 

 Northern Branch had not yet been received. 



On the motion of Mr William Dawson, the reports were 

 adopted. 



Chairman's Remarks. 



The Chairman, in formally moving the adoption of the 

 Council's report, said : — I do not think there is anything 

 which I need call your special attention to. The Society has 

 carried on its normal work. Its membership is slightly larger 

 than it was at this time last year, and it is in as vigorous a 

 condition as it has ever been. Its Membership is larger than 

 it has ever been. This being the last time that I shall have 

 the honour of addressing you as President, I should like to 

 take the opportunity of thanking you all for the support which 

 you have given me during my three years in the chair. No 

 President has ever had more loyal and helpful colleagues than 

 I have had in the Council of this Society. And one secret I 

 have learned I should like to confide to you. It is that this 

 Society owes more than perhaps it knows to three of its 

 Members — its Honorary Secretary, its Secretary, and the Editor 

 of the Transactions. 



The death of the last-mentioned gentleman is a great blow 

 to us. 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, with its scattered Members, 

 the published Transactions mean nearly as much as mortar 

 means to a wall. The volumes which have issued from Colonel 

 Bailey's study have not only served to hold us together, but 

 have also given direction to our movement, and won a 



