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APPENDIX D. 



Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society (Aberdeen Branch). 



REPORT 1912. 



The Committee beg to submit the Seventh Annual Report of 

 the Branch. 



The affairs of the Branch have been conducted on similar 

 lines as in the preceding years. 



The Membership of the Branch remains about the same as 

 last year. Three new members have joined the Branch, but 

 one or two have been lost on account of death and removal 

 from the district. The Branch specially regrets the loss of the 

 Rev. Mr Loutit, who died under such tragic circumstances. 



During the year four meetings of the Branch have been 

 held — on 9th December 191 1, 30th March, 26th June, and 

 28th September 191 2. At the Annual Meeting held in 

 December, the Right Honourable Robert Farquharson, P.C., 

 gave an address, the subject being " The Past, Present and 

 Future of Forestry," in the course of which he touched on many 

 points of interest to those interested in forestry. At the March 

 meeting of the Branch, which was very largely attended, 

 members and others were privileged to hear an address from 

 Professor Somerville, Oxford, who chose as his subject "The 

 Forests of North America," explaining particularly what is being 

 done by the Governments of the United States and Canada 

 in the development of forestry. On 26th June twenty-five 

 members of the Branch joined the members of the Parent 

 Society (whose Annual Excursion was held on Deeside from 

 24th to 28th June) in their visitation to the woods of Balmoral — 

 the woods visited being Garmaddie, Invergelder and Craig 

 Govvan, Balmoral Grounds and Abergeldie. The Branch party 

 was heartily welcomed by Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, the President 

 of the Society, and a very pleasant and instructive day was 

 spent. His Majesty the King having been pleased to provide 

 luncheon for the party, which was served in a marquee erected 

 on the lawn near Balmoral Castle. The last meeting of the 

 Branch for the year took the form of a visitation, on the 

 invitation of the proprietors, to two of the local nurseries, namely 



