ADVERTISEMENT, 



IN the Spring of 1877, while measures were being taken 

 for the formation of an Arboretum in Edinburgh, I issued 

 a Pamphlet entitled The Schools of Forestry in Europe : 

 a Plea for the, Creation of a School of Forestry in Connection 

 with the Arboretum at Edinburgh. After it was made 

 known that arrangements were being carried out for the 

 formation of an International Exhibition of forest products, 

 and other objects of interest connected with forestry, in 

 Edinburgh, with a view to promoting the moyement for 

 the establishment of a National School of Forestry in 

 Scotland, and with a view of furthering and stimulating a 

 greater improvement in the scientific management of 

 woods in Scotland, and the sister countries, which has 

 manifested itself during recent years, the Council of the 

 East Lothian Naturalists' Club resolved on having a 

 course of lectures or popular readings on some subject 

 connected with forestry, which might enable them and 

 others better to profit by visits to the projected Exhibition, 

 and which should be open to the public at a moderate 

 charge. The conducting of these was devolved upon me, 

 who happened to be Vice- President of the Club, 



