Society on this subject, and that meantime he had advised that 

 proprietors should take more advantage of their privileges of 

 negotiation with assessors and, if necessary, should appeal to the 

 Valuation Committees, and, failing satisfaction from them, to the 

 Lands Valuation Appeal Court in Edinburgh. He urged that 

 members who knew of cases of hardship, should send in 

 particulars which would be helpful to the Committee in 

 endeavouring to find remedies where these were required. 



Proposed Alteratioti of the Laws. 



The Council carefully considered the Motion and Amendment 

 regarding the proposed alteration of the Law regulating the 

 election of Office-Bearers which were remitted at last Annual 

 Meeting ; and the proposed new Law, giving effect to the 

 Council's views on the subject, which is printed in the notice 

 calling this meeting, will be submitted for consideration at a 

 later stage of to-day's proceedings. Briefly, the Council's pro- 

 posals are that the Vice-Presidents should be reduced from 

 6 to 5, the Councillors increased from 21 to 25; that a fifth of 

 the Vice-Presidents and Councillors should retire annually and 

 should not be eligible for re-election to the same office till after 

 the lapse of a year. The normal period of service would thus 

 be increased from 3 to 5 years, but it will be seen that the 

 retiring Vice-President and retiring Councillors are not eligible 

 for re-election to the same office till after a lapse of a year. 



The Dunn Memorial Fund. 



The greater part of the available revenue of this Fund has 

 been expended in binding Messrs Elwes and Henry's great book 

 on the Trees of Great Britain and Ireland. There remains a 

 small balance over of 12s. iid. to carry forward to next year. 



Library. 



The usual list of additions to the Library will be appended 

 to the proceedings of this meeting, and it will include a number 

 of items which have been kindly given by the representatives of 

 the late Colonel Bailey. To them and other donors the cordial 

 thanks of the Society are due for these gifts. 



Telegraph and Telephone Poles. 



The Post Office regulations regarding the inspection of home- 

 grown telegraph and telephone poles have now been amended, 

 to the effect that in certain cases the standing timber may be 

 inspected to ascertain the probable suitability of the trees. An 

 article on this subject is printed in the January Transactions. 



