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1913-14.] Opening Address by the President. 
Andrew Jamieson, M.Inst.C.E. . . . He was elected a Fellow of the 
Society in 1882, and died on 4th December 1912. . . . [See Obituary 
Notice, Proceedings , vol. xxxiii. pp. 334, 335.] 
Sir George Howard Darwin, K.C.B., M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., second son 
of the famous naturalist, was born in 1845, and died on 7th December 1912. 
After a brilliant career at Cambridge, he became barrister in 1874, but 
subsequently returned to Cambridge and devoted himself to mathematical 
science, and in 1883 was elected Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experi- 
mental Philosophy. He is the author of many important and suggestive 
papers, a number of which appeared in the Proceedings and Philosophical 
Transactions of the Royal Society, of which Society he became a Fellow 
in 1879, and was the recipient of the Copley and Royal Medals. The great 
merits of his original researches have been recognised by many Universities 
at home and abroad, and by learned Academies and Institutions all the 
world over, who have enrolled his name among their hon. members. He 
was elected an Honorary Fellow of this Society in 1897. 
Lieut.-Col. Frederick Bailey obtained his commission in the Royal 
Engineers in 1859, and went to India in 1864, where he served in the 
Bhutan Expedition of 1864-5, for which he obtained a medal. In 1871 he 
was attached to the Indian forest service, in which department he remained 
for close on twenty years, having during that long period occupied several 
very important posts. So highly were his services appreciated by the 
Indian Government that he was eventually appointed Inspector-General 
of Forests. In 1890 temporary illness compelled him to return to this 
country. About this time the importance of Forestry as a branch of 
University education had been recognised by the institution of a Lecture- 
ship on the subject in the University of Edinburgh, and Lieut.-Col. Bailey 
was called upon to become first lecturer. He threw himself with charac- 
teristic zeal into his work, and soon gained the confidence of his students 
and the admiration of his colleagues. It is chiefly due to his indefatigable 
exertions that a degree in Forestry was eventually instituted by the 
University Court. Nor can it be doubted that it is to his energy and 
enthusiasm that the subject of Forestry now occupies so prominent a 
position not only in the University of Edinburgh but in Scotland generally. 
Lieut.-Col. Bailey also found additional outlets for his energies as an active 
member of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, and as Secretary of the 
Royal Scottish Geographical Society. This latter post he occupied with 
conspicuous ability for many years, until the increasing work of his Lecture- 
