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through the Foreign Office, and subsequently negotiations 

 were carried on direct with the British Embassy in Berne, 

 through whom a programme, prepared by Dr Coaz, Inspector- 

 General of Forests for Switzerland, was obtained. The Swiss 

 Forestry Department also very kindly secured hotel accommoda- 

 tion and made other arrangements for the party. About 

 sixty-six members took part in the Excursion. The programme 

 was divided into two parts so as to permit of members, who 

 could not stay the whole time, breaking off at the end of the 

 first week, but very few took advantage of this arrangement. 

 The whole arrangements made by the Swiss authorities were 

 excellently planned, and were much more economically carried 

 out than had been expected, with the result that a very 

 substantial balance will be added to the Excursion Fund,, and 

 will be dealt with in connection with the Diamond Jubilee 

 celebrations, as explained below. Owing to some outstanding 

 questions with the Continental Railway Companies the accounts 

 are not yet closed, but they will be submitted to the Auditor 

 in the usual way as soon as possible. The party left Edinburgh 

 for London on Thursday, loth July, and travelled z'/d! Folkestone 

 and Boulogne, Paris and Bale, and made the return journey 

 by Brussels, Ghent, Ostend and Dover, reaching London on the 

 night of Thursday, 25th July, and Edinburgh the following 

 morning. On the return of the party, the thanks of the 

 Society were duly conveyed to the Swiss Forestry authorities 

 and other officials, both directly and through the Foreign 

 Office. Thanks were also conveyed to the British Minister in 

 Berne and the British Consul in Zurich, both of whom rendered 

 the members great service. A detailed account of the Excursion, 

 written by Mr G. P. Gordon, appears in the January TransactioJis. 

 As mentioned in last annual report, the Council decided to offer 

 three bursaries of ^10 each, to enable three Foresters to take 

 part in the Excursion. For these bursaries six applications were 

 received, and the Committee finally selected the following : — 

 Mr George Mowat, Mr W. H. Whellens, and Mr J. G. Singer. 

 These three duly attended the Excursion, and submitted 

 satisfactory reports upon it, which are being circulated 

 amongst the members of the Committee. 



Malcolm Dunn Memorial Fund. 



The two remaining volumes, being the sixth and seventh, of 

 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, price ^5, 5s., and also 

 a copy of Messrs Bartholomew's Sun^ey Atlas of Scotland, price 

 ;^2, i2S. 6d., have been purchased and added to the Library 

 during the year. It is now proposed that the former work 

 should be suitably bound, with the plates inserted in the 

 appropriate places in the letterpress, at a cost of about 14s. 

 per volume. 



