204 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Appointment for Hon. Editor. 

 ( With Portrait.) 



The members of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society 

 will learn with interest that the Hon. Editor of the Transactions, 

 Dr A. W. Horthwick, has been appointed by the Board of 

 Agriculture for Scotland, with the approval of the Secretary for 

 Scotland and H.M. Treasury, to be their Advisory Officer for 

 Forestry in succession to the late Dr John Nisbet. 



Dr Borthwick, who has acted as Hon. Editor since the death 

 of Col. Bailey at the end of 191 2, was educated at the Madras 

 College, St Andrews, and the University of St Andrews, where 

 he took high places in botany and mathematics and obtained 

 the degree of B.Sc. Subsequently he proceeded to Bavaria, 

 where he remained for three years, and passed with distinction 

 through a complete theoretical and practical course of forestry. 

 On his return to this country he was appointed in 1899 assistant 

 to the Professor of Botany and Lecturer in Plant Physiology 

 in the University of Edinburgh, an appointment which he held 

 until, in 1908, he took up the post of Lecturer in Forest 

 Botany. In 1904 he obtained the degree of D.Sc, and in 1905 

 was appointed Lecturer in Forestry in the East of Scotland 

 College of Agriculture. During his long period of work at the 

 Royal Botanic Garden as assistant to the Professor and Lecturer 

 in Forestry and Forest Botany there, Dr Borthwick devoted 

 himself especially to those aspects of botany which have a 

 bearing upon forestry, and most of the numerous special pieces 

 of research which he undertook were concerned with problems 

 connected with the normal and abnormal growth of trees. 



During the period of his residence in Edinburgh Dr Borthwick 

 has taken a conspicuous part in the work of the scientific 

 societies dealing with the various aspects of botany and forestry, 

 and, as the members know, has been especially active as a 

 member of the Council of this Society. Since 1903 he has 

 been Hon. Consulting Cryptogamist, and in 1909 he acted as 

 guide in the Society's excursion to the forests of Bavaria. His 

 contributions to the Trafisactions have been numerous, and his 

 work as judge of exhibits at the Society's exhibitions and in 

 connection with the competitions for Estate Nurseries and 



