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appears to have been in 1823, when an extra premium 

 (eight guineas) was voted to Lachlan M'Lean, tacksman 

 of Tallisker, Isle of Skye, as a mark of the Society's 

 approbation for his having planted a considerable extent of 

 ground, after being properly enclosed, upon his farm. In 

 the following year a piece of plate, of fifteen guineas value, 

 was voted to Col. M'Neill of Barra for extensive planting. 



The preceding remarks apply to the period embraced 

 in the first series of the Society's Transactions. Since then 

 numerous premiums for planting have been awarded. Thus, 

 the Second Series, 1828-1843, contains the following reports: 

 On the Airlie estates in Forfarshire and Perthshire, by the 

 Earl of Airlie (1831); on the Athole and Dunkeld estates 

 in Perthshire (1833); on Skibo, Sutherlandshire, by George 

 Dempster (1837); on Kilcoy, Ross-shire, by Colin Mac- 

 kenzie (1837); on Castle Grant, Inverness-shire (1839); 

 and on planting moorland (1833), by John Grigor ; on 

 Banchory, Kincardineshire, by Alexander Thomson (1839) ; 

 on Muirton, Ross-shire, by William Mackenzie (1841); on 

 the property of the Merchant Maiden Hospital of Edin- 

 burgh in the north-east of Scotland, by Roderick Gray 



(1837)- 



The Third Series, 1843- 1865, of Transactions contains 



the following reports : On the estates of Sutherland, by the 

 Duke of Sutherland, under the direction of James Loch, 

 M.P. (1845); oil Balnagowan, Ross-shire, the property of 

 Sir Charles Ross, Bart. (1847); and on the exposed district 

 of Buchan at Pitfour and Crimond, by Robert Grigor (1849); 

 on the estates of the Duke of Richmond at Binhill, Drum- 

 delgie, and Culdrain, Aberdeenshire, by George Macpherson 

 (1847) ; on the estates of Trimingham and Runton, belong- 

 ing to Sir Edward North Buxton, Bart., in the county of 

 Norfolk, by James Grigor (1847); on the Seafield estates, 

 in the district of Cullen, Moray, Strathspey, and Glen 

 Urquhart, by the Earl of Seafield (1849); on Kincorth, 

 Morayshire, by Robert Grant (1849); on the estates of 

 Cawdor, Nairnshire, by Earl Cawdor (1849); on the estate 

 of Fairburn, Ross-shire, by Keith W. S. Mackenzie (1855) ; 

 on the estate of Balgowan, Aberdeenshire, by Robert Smith 



