Deeside, and Supplementary Areas in other districts for Demonstra- 

 tion purposes, and of the creation of a Department of Forestry for 

 Scotland with a separate annual grant, were passed at last Annual 

 Meeting and sent to the Ministers and Government Departments 

 concerned, and to all the Scottish Members of Parliament. 



Excursions. 



Since 1878 well-organised Excursions, numerously attended 

 by Members of the Society, have been made annually to various 

 parts of Scotland, England, Ireland, and the Continent. In 

 1895 a Tour extending over twelve days was made through the 

 Forests of Northern Germany, in 1902 a Tour extending over 

 seventeen days was made in Sweden, in 1904 the Forest School at 

 Nancy and Forests in the north of France were visited, in 1909 a 

 visit was undertaken to the Bavarian Forests, and during the past 

 summer ten days were spent in the Forests of Switzerland. These 

 Excursions enable Members whose occupations necessarily confine 

 them chiefly to a single locality to study the conditions and 

 methods prevailing elsewhere; and the Council propose to extend 

 the Tours during the next few years to other parts of the Continent. 

 They venture to express the hope that Landowners may be induced 

 to aflford facilities to their Foresters for participation in these Tours, 

 the instructive nature of which renders them well worth the 

 moderate expenditure of time and money that they involve. 



Exhibitions. 



A Forestry Exhibition is annually organised in connection with 

 the Highland and Agricultural Society's Show, in which are exhibited 

 specimens illustrating the rate of growth of trees, diff"erent kinds of 

 wood, pit-wood and railway timber, insect pests and samples of the 

 damage done by them, tools and implements, manufactured articles 

 peculiar to the district where the Exhibition is held, and other 

 objects of interest relating to Forestry. Prizes and Medals are also 

 offered for Special Exhibits. In addition to the Annual Exhibition 

 before referred to, large and important Forestry Sections organised by 

 this Society were included in the Scottish National Exhibition held 

 in Edinburgh in 1908, and in the Scottish Exhibition of National 

 History, Art, and Industry, held in Glasgow in 191 1. 



Plantations and Estate Nurseries Competitions. 



Prizes are now offered annually for the best Young Plantations 

 and the best managed Estate Nurseries within the Show District 

 of the Highland and Agricultural Society. 



The Society's Transactions. 



The Transactions of the Society, which extend to twenty-seven 

 volumes, are now published half-yearly in January and Ji'ly, and are 

 issued gratis to Members. A large number of the Prize Essays and 

 other valuable Papers, and reports of the Annual Excursions, have 

 appeared in them, and have thus become available to Students as 

 well as to those actively engaged in the Profession of Forestry, 



