Committee, with Dr Borthwick as Convener, has been 

 appointed to consider the whole question, and to report. 



Socteiy's Diattiond Jtibilee. 



As members are aware the Society's Diamond Jubilee took 

 place on i6th February. The Council considered carefully 

 the various suggestions which were submitted by members 

 with the view of celebrating this event in a suitable manner, 

 and they finally decided as follows : — 



I St. That the lists of Home and Foreign Honorary Members 

 should be filled up, and that the Honorary Membership should 

 be conferred on Dr J. Coaz, Inspector-General of the Swiss 

 Forest Service, at the earliest opportunity. 



2nd. That the Society should invite, through the Foreign, 

 Colonial and India Offices, representative foreign and 

 Colonial foresters from the following countries : — France 

 Prussia, Bavaria, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, 

 Italy, Belgium, Russia, Austria, Hungary, Holland, India, 

 United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and 

 South Africa. It is proposed that these Foresters should be the 

 guests of the Society for about a fortnight, beginning Saturday, 

 27th June, and that during that time they should have an 

 opportunity of seeing some of the best examples of our existing 

 woodlands, and also some of our bare hills and glens, which 

 may be found capable of being profitably afforested. An 

 outline of a tour has been drawn up which includes — Scone, 

 Murthly and Atholl, in Perthshire; Mar, Balmoral, Ballogie, 

 Finzean and Durris, in Deeside ; CuUen and Grantown, in 

 Speyside ; and Glen Mor. The party will then join the Society's 

 usual Annual Excursion, which will embrace Inverliever, 

 Poltalloch, and other places in the West of Scotland. The 

 proceedings will terminate in Edinburgh with a Reception, 

 Conference, and Dinner. It is expected that the Corporations 

 of Edinburgh and Glasgow will entertain the guests. These 

 proposals have been submitted to the Government Offices 

 concerned, and already several nominations of foreign repre- 

 sentatives have been received. The expense of this tour will 

 heavily tax the resources of the Society, but the Council 

 believe that they will find sufficient funds available for the 

 purpose by drawing partly upon the Society's uninvested 

 balance and upon the balance of the Excursion Fund before 

 referred to. Several members of the Society have kindly 

 agreed to take the foreign representatives as their private 

 guests for the two week-ends embraced in the time, and also 

 to give assistance by lending motor cars and otherwise. 



It is also proposed to have various special articles of an 

 appropriate nature published in the Transactiofis. 



