l8o TRANSACTIONS OK ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



" It is now my duty to ask the meeting to approve of the 

 election as Honorary Members of the Society of those whose 

 names are to be found on the printed paper in your hands. It 

 may be true that nothing that we can do can add anything to the 

 honours of those distinguished silviculturists who are our guests. 

 But I would ask them to remember that our Honorary Member- 

 ship is the only distinction in silviculture which Scotland has to 

 bestow, and one that always has been, and I hope always will be, 

 jealously guarded. In reading the names, I must explain that 

 those of our foreign guests, following the established custom in 

 Great Britain, are printed in the alphabetical order of the 

 countries represented by them. 



"The first country is Denmark, represented by Dr P. E. 

 Miiller. In Dr Miiller, the accident of the alphabet has given 

 to the foreign representatives a doyen whom any assembly of 

 foresters might be proud to choose for that position. France 

 is represented by M. Parde, Inspector of Waters and Forests, 

 Beauvais, who is not only distinguished as a forester, but as a 

 dendrologist of European reputation. Holland is represented by 

 M. J. H. Jager Gerlings, Inspector of the Government Forestry 

 Administration at Breda, who represents a country known to us 

 best perhaps for its dairy industry and flower culture ; and yet 

 Holland is very much alive to the duty of placing under silvi- 

 culture all the ground which is not available nor suited for any 

 higher economic purposes. Hungary is represented by Mr 

 Johann Czillinger, Royal Hungarian Inspector of Forests, who 

 comes to us from a country where the relatively large proportion 

 of woods belonging to private owners presents some features of 

 similarity to our own country. Russia is represented by Actual 

 Councillor of State M. S. J. Rauner, Vice-Director of the Corps 

 of Foresters, who is engaged in afforestation work in an empire 

 which already possesses, I believe, the largest area of trees of 

 any country in the world. Sweden is represented by Mr Carl 

 Bjorkbom, Inspector of Forests, who is an expert in the tending 

 of forests of spruce and Scots pine, which are precisely two of the 

 most important forest trees in Scotland. 



" Then, besides these who are elected as foreign Honorary 

 Members, there is the second list of those to be elected as Home 

 and Colonial Honorary Members. The first name is that of the 

 Right Honourable Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, K.C.M.G., 

 Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. I am 



