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20. Mr Robert Galloway, S.S.C, Secretary and 



Treasurer. 



(JVtVn Portrait.) 



The Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society has never been, 

 at any period in its sixty years' existence, in a more flourishing 

 condition than it is in at the present time, and in a very large 

 measure its success is due to the fact that it has, in Mr Robert 

 Galloway, a Secretary who, in addition to his immense power 

 of organisation, devotes untiring energy and great enthusiasm 

 to his arduous and many-sided duties. Only those who have 

 been brought more closely into contact with the Secretary can 

 realise the extent, difficulty, and very often delicate nature of 

 the work involved in the discharge of his duties. In addition 

 to his many other good qualities, Mr Galloway possesses a great 

 amount of real tact and skill in conducting aflairs to the entire 

 satisfaction of all concerned. The slightest murmur of dis- 

 satisfaction with his work is never heard in the Society. 



Mr Galloway became inte?-ifn Secretary in 1895, when the 

 tide in the affairs of the Society was at a somewhat low ebb, 

 but since his term of office began the tide has turned, and it 

 has ever since flowed steadily towards prosperity. 



It was in 1895, the first year Mr Galloway was in office, that 

 the first foreign excursion was organised and successfully carried 

 through. In that year Prussia was visited, and nothing could 

 have been more satisfactory than the business-like way 

 in which the tour was arranged. Since then Sweden (1902), 

 France (1904), Bavaria (1909), Switzerland (1913), have been 

 visited, and it must be admitted that nothing has tended more 

 to broaden the views of silviculturists in this country than 

 those foreign excursions, which have been so well organised 

 and so successfully accomplished, thanks principally to the 

 energy and ability of our Secretary. The home excursions 

 have been equally well managed. The fact that the annual 

 excursion is now such a popular and important event in 

 the affairs of the Society, is due to the admirable way in 

 which arrangements are made by our indefatigable Secretary 

 for the comfort and convenience of all. The educative and 

 economic value of those carefully planned excursions cannot 

 well be over-estimated. The annual forestry exhibition and 



