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Schools to obtain special and technical education, the 

 Society in 1870 memorialised the Duke of Argyll, then 

 Secretary of State for India, praying that the selected 

 candidates for all Government forestry appointments might 

 be allowed to acquire their special technical education, 

 without any restriction, in the hope that Forest Schools 

 might be established in this country, where candidates 

 would have an opportunity of being instructed by persons 

 skilled in the general land laws of India ; but the applica- 

 tion was, much to the regret of the Society, unsuccessful. 



Professor of Botany. 



Dr John Hutton Balfour was nominated to the 

 honorary office of Professor of Botany to the Society in 

 1873. He joined the Society in 1839; was elected Pro- 

 fessor of Botany in the University of Glasgow in 1841, 

 which he resigned on his appointment to the Chair of 

 Botany in the Edinburgh University in 1845. He still 

 holds the position of Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Edinburgh, and is well known as one of the most 

 distinguished botanists of the day. Besides serving as a 

 Director, Dr Balfour is a member of the Society's Council 

 on Agricultural Education, and has acted as an examiner 

 in that, as well as in the Forestry and Veterinary Depart- 

 ments. 



