ADVERTISEMENT, 
‘0 
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 movement 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 ithelf 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. 
