PROCEEDINGS AT BOARD MEETINGS, 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 8th MAY 1878. 



Present— 8h' George D. Clerk of Penicuik, Bart. ; Mr Graham Binny, W.S. ; Mr Gillon 

 of Walllionse ; Mr Hog of Newliston ; Mr Hope, Duddingston ; Mr Hunter of 

 Thurston ; Mr Jardine of Castlemillv ; Mr Johnstone, Dinvvoodie Lodge ; Mr Kennedy 

 (of Sundaywell), Brandleys ; Mr Mackenzie of Portmore ; Mr Murray of Dollerie ; 

 Mr Mylne, Niddrie Mains ; Mr Plummer of Sunderland Hall ; Mr Ritchie of Middleton ; 

 Captain Tod of Howden ; Mr Walker of Bowland, C.B. ; Professor Wilson ; Dr A. P. 

 Aitken. Mr Gillon of Wallhouse in the chair. 



Mr F. N. Menzies reported apologies for the absence of Admiral Sir William J. 

 Hope Johnstone, K.C.B. ; Professor Balfour; Mr Dickson of Corstorphine ; Mr 

 Ferguson, Kinnochtry; Mr Irvine of Drum ; Mr Martin, yr. of Auchendennan ; Mr 

 Maxwell of Munches ; and Mr Ralston, Glamis . 



Offices of Treasurer and Honorary Secretary. — At the meeting of the Board 

 on the 3d of April, Mr Walker of Bowland, C.B., and Sir Graham Montgomery, 

 Bart., M.P., were respectively nominated to the offices of Treasurer and Honorary 

 Secretary, rendered vacant by the death of Sir William Gibson-Craig and Sir William 

 Stirling-Maxwell. 



Letters were to-day submitted from Mr Walker and Sir Graham Montgomery 

 accepting office, and expressing their deep sense of the compliment done them. 



General Meeting. — The half-yearly General Meeting of the Society for the election 

 of members and for other business was fixed to be held on Wednesday the 5th of June, 

 being the week previous to the opening of the Agricultural Congress at Paris, at which 

 the Directors had instructed the Secretary of the Society to be present. 



Veterinary Department. — The report of the examinations for the Society's- 

 veterinary certificate on the 15th, 16th, and 17th ult. , was laid on the table, from 

 which it apj^eared that 26 students presented themselves for examination, and that 19- 

 passed. 



Dumfries Show, 1878. — Letters were submitted from Mr H. Gordon, clerk of 

 supply, Dumfries, and from Mr R. M. Gordon, clerk of supply, Kirkcudbright, 

 sending the names of the gentlemen appointed by the Commissioners of Supply to 

 represent Dumfriesshire and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright in the General Committee 

 of Management of the General Show to be held at Dumfries in July and August next ; 

 and from Mr T. F. Smith, Provost of Dumfries, sending the names of those appointed 

 to represent the town of Dumfries. 



Galloway Herd-Book. —A letter was read from the Rev. Mr Gillespie, i^resenting 

 volume I. of the Galloway Herd-Book, containing pedigrees of pure-bred Galloway 

 cattle, published by the Galloway Cattle Society. The Secretary stated that he had 

 in name of the Society thanked Mr Gillespie for the book. 



History of the Society. — The Secretary submitted a letter from Mr Alexander 

 Ramsay, Banff, sending a copy of the contents of a History of the Society written by 

 him, and shortly to be published. Mr Menzies informed the Board that the work 

 contains a narrative of the Society's entire operations in the ninety-five years of its 

 existence, including accounts of the successive General Shows of live stock, &;c ; that 

 he had read a considerable portion of the book, which has been prepared at gi-eat 

 labour from authentic sources ; and that he felt sure it would be very interesting, not. 

 only to the members of the Societj^ but to the general public. 



The Directors agreed to subscribe for thirty copies of the work. ,_ 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 5th JUNE 1878, 



Present— Lo\\\ Polwarth ; Mr Ferguson, Kinnochtry ; Mr Findiay of Springhill ; 

 Mr Gillon of Wallhousel; Mr Maxtone Graham of Redgorton ; Mr Himter of Thurston ; 

 Mr Irvine of Drum ; Mr Kennedy (of Sundaywell), Brandleys ; Mr Plummer of 

 Sunderland Hall ; Mr Ritchie of Middleton ; Mr Smith, Stevenson Mains ; Mr Smith, 

 Whittinghame ; Mr Walker of BoAvland, C.B. Mr Findlay of Springhill in the 

 chair. 



Mr F. N. Menzies reported apologies for the absence of Sir George D. Clerk, Bart. ; 

 Sir Alexander Jardine, Bart. ; Professor Balfour ; Mr Mackenzie of Portmore ; Mr 

 Howatson of Dornel ; and Mr Martin, yr. of Auchendennan. 



The business had reference principally to the subjects to be brought before the 

 General Meeting of this date. 



