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Belgian Refugees. 



As intimated in the notice calling the meeting, it has been 

 made known that a number of refugees are capable of doing 

 forestry work, and it would be desirable that members of the 

 Society who cannot obtain local labour should endeavour to 

 give employment to some of those refugees. They can only be 

 employed on estates outside the prohibited area, which is all 

 along the East coast from north to south. Applications should 

 be made through the local Labour Exchange offices. 



Local Branches. 



Reports have been received from the Aberdeen branch, which 

 will be submitted later in the "Proceedings." The report from 

 the Northern branch has not yet been received, but when it 

 arrives, the Council, with the approval of this meeting, will deal 

 with it in the usual way. 



Economic Botany Section of the Royal Scottish Museum. 



In the course of the summer it was brought to the notice of 

 the Council that alterations were being made on this section 

 which it was feared might impair or destroy its usefulness. A 

 joint Committee of the various Societies interested in the subject 

 inspected the section, and found that there were ample grounds 

 for such fears, and their subsequent interview with the Director 

 did not reassure them. He indicated that some of the specimens 

 might be transferred to other Museums, such as the University 

 Forestry Class Museum, but gave no assurance that any of the 

 specimens which had already been removed would be replaced. 

 The Committee has accordingly been continued. 



As to the Society's own specimens included in the section it 

 appears from the " Proceedings" of the Society, at a meeting in 

 1886, that the then President said: — "With regard to the 

 specimens and illustrations of Forestry which they had in their 

 possession, the Council were unanimous in making over the 

 collection to the Director, Colonel Murdoch Smith, R.E., for 

 exhibition in the Museum of Science and Art, with the view of a 

 School of Forestry being instituted at an early date." 



The Council think that they should not object to the transfer- 

 ence of these specimens to the new Forestry Museum in the 

 University, provided the members of the Society and all others 

 interested have reasonable facilities for inspecting the specimens 

 in that Museum, and they have accordingly instructed their 

 representatives on the joint Committee dealing with the whole 

 matter, to put forward that view. 



The report was unanimously adopted. 



