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Reid’s <c Scots Gardener,” published in 1683, shows the taste 
for wood already begun. Sir Archibald Grant of Monymush has 
left us a brief but interesting account of the planting and other 
improvements begun by him in 1716. The Earl of Haddington 
published, in 1733, a minute account of his planting operations. 
At Arniston are preserved original accounts and contemporary docu- 
ments showing the extent and manner of planting there during almost 
the whole of last century, and also a narrative detailing the results 
made up from such materials, written by the Lord Chief Baron 
Dundas. An anonymous writer in 1729 (believed to be Mr M‘Intosh 
of Borlum) mentions a good many improvers, enclosers, and planters, 
in Scotland at that time. Mr Walker, Professor of Natural History 
at Edinburgh, in his “ Economical History of the Hebrides and 
Highlands,” and his collected “ Essays,” gives the results of his own 
observations of trees through Scotland, from about 1760, for twenty 
years. Sang’s 46 Planter’s Calendar;” Dr Patrick. Graham’s ‘‘Ge- 
neral Report of Scotland;” Monteith’s “Forester’s Guide;” Sir 
Thomas Dick Lauder’s edition of “ Gilpin,” furnish a consider- 
able mass of information of the state of wood in Scotland during a 
century past. And Loudon, in his most laborious and valuable 
“ Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum,” arranges and digests much 
of these materials. One important use served by the authors named 
is to enable us to compare the present condition and size of trees 
with what they were at ascertained distances of time previous ; while 
the collection of returns of remarkable trees now making to the 
Highland Society, will serve as a foundation for such measurement 
and comparison in future times. 
The following Gentlemen were admitted Ordinary Fel- 
lows - 
Thomas Herbert Barker, M.D. 
Robert MacLachlan, Esq. 
James Young, Esq. 
The following Gentleman was admitted an Honorary Fel- 
low - 
Sir W. E. Logan, Director of the Geological Survey of Canada. 
The following Donations to the Library were announced : — 
Original Sanscrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of 
India. By J. Muir, D.C.L. Part Third. 8vo, 1861 . — From 
the Author . 
