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APPENDIX C. 



Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society (Aberdeen Branch). 

 REPORT 1915. 



' The Committee beg to submit the Tenth Annual Report of 

 the Branch. 



The Membership of the Branch is 134, two having joined 

 the Branch during the year. 



Four quarterly meetings of the Branch were fixed to be held 

 on 1 2th December 1914, 22nd May, 31st July, and 16th October 



At the Annual General Meeting held in December formal 

 business only was transacted, it having been previously decided 

 that it was inexpedient to have an address delivered, as is usually 

 done at the Annual Meetings of the Branch, on account of the 

 continuance of the war, and for the same reason the meeting 

 fixed for i6th October was reluctantly abandoned. 



At the meeting held in May, Dr Trail, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., 

 etc.. Professor of Botany in the University of Aberdeen, the 

 President of the Branch, gave his Presidential address, which 

 took the form of a sketch of the various efforts which had been 

 made from time to time by the University to embrace the subject 

 of forestry in the University curriculum, as well as the gradual 

 development of the study of arboriculture in the North of 

 Scotland generally, and the address was of a most interesting 

 and instructive character. At the same meeting, which was 

 held in the Botanical Department of the University, the members 

 had the privilege of visiting the new Forestry Department, in 

 which three rooms have been provided as well as spacious out 

 side accommodation, and the members were unanimous in 

 thinking that the rooms would be a decided acquisition to the 

 Department. 



On the occasion of the meeting in July, the members of the 

 Branch had the privilege, on the invitation of the Governors of 

 the North of Scotland College of Agriculture, of visiting and 

 inspecting the site of the proposed forest garden at Craibstone 

 and the agricultural experiments there. In order to preserve a 

 record of the inspection, it was remitted to Mr C. S. France, one 

 of the Vice-Presidents, and Mr Peter Leslie, Lecturer in Forestry, 



