Hogal Scottisi) ;?lrboricuIturaI Societgi 



Instituted 16th February 1854. 



PATRON : 



HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE KING. 



PROCEEDINGS IN 1915. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Sixty-second Annual Business Meeting of the Society was 

 held in the Goold Hall, 5 St Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, on 

 Saturday, 6th February 19 15, at i p.m., and was attended by about 

 forty members. In the unavoidable absence of Colonel Stirling 

 of Keir, President of the Society, Sydney J. Gammell, Esq., 

 of Drumtochty, Vice-President, was called to the Chair. The 

 Board of Agriculture for Scotland was represented by John D. 

 Sutherland, Esq., Commissioner for Small Holdings and Chair- 

 man of the Advisory Committee on Forestry. 



Apologies. 



The Secretary intimated that apologies for absence had been 

 received from the President, Lord Lovat, Vice-President, and 

 Mr Irvine of Drum, who were all on active service ; and from Sir 

 Kenneth Mackenzie, Sir Andrew Agnew, Sir Arthur Mackenzie 

 of Coul, and Messrs Robert Allan, J. F. Annand, A. T. Gillanders, 

 John A. Howe, H. Rutherfurd, and John M'Kerchar. 



The President's letter, dated from the camp of the 2nd 

 Lovat Scouts in England, was read to the meeting by the 

 Chairman, as follows : — 



" I am very sorry my duty here will not allow me to be present 

 at the Annual Meeting. 



" If the Society does me the great honour of electing me as their 

 President for another year, I shall accept it not as establishing a 

 dangerous precedent for an absentee holder of the office, but as 

 a mark of the Society's goodwill towards those members who 

 have been called up for service in His Majesty's forces. 



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