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APPENDIX D. 



Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society (Aberdeen Branch). 



REPORT 1913. 



The Committee beg to submit the Eighth Annual Report of 

 the Branch. 



The affairs of the Branch have been conducted on similar 

 lines as in the preceding years. 



The Membership of the Branch is 122, Sixteen new members 

 have joined the Branch during the year, but one or two names 

 have been deleted from the list of members through having left 

 the district, failure to pay subscriptions, and other causes. The 

 Branch has lost the active services of Mr William Dawson, 

 M.A., B.Sc, formerly Lecturer on Forestry at Aberdeen, who 

 was a member of Committee, and who was recently appointed 

 Reader in Forestry in the University of Cambridge. 



The four quarterly meetings of the Branch were held on 14th 

 December 191 2, 17th May, 9th August, and 17th October 1913. 

 At the Annual Meeting held in December consideration of the 

 Report of Lord Lovat and Captain Stirling of Keir, on 

 " Afforestation in Scotland " in reference to the Forest Survey of 

 Glen Mor, was taken up, the subject being opened by Mr Sydney 

 J. Gammell, of Drumtochty, and various aspects of the Report 

 were discussed at some length by him, and by Professor 

 Hendrick, Mr Dawson, and others. 



The meetings held in May and August took the form of 

 excursions to the Woods of Drum, owned by Mr A. F. Irvine, the 

 President of the Branch, and to the Cullen Woods. On both 

 occasions much of interest to Arboriculturists was seen and 

 discussed, and on both occasions the party were hospitably 

 entertained to luncheon by Mr Irvine, and by the Seafield 

 Trustees. It has been found that these and previous excursions 

 have proved very beneficial to members of the Branch, and they 

 have been largely taken advantage of, there having been an 

 average attendance of about forty on each occasion. At the 

 final meeting for the year, held in October, an open discussion on 

 " A Comparison of Home and Foreign Timber " took place. 

 This meeting was held on a Friday afternoon as an experiment, 



