4 PKOCEEDINGS AT BOARD MEETINGS. 



examination of canrlidates for the Society's veterinary certiKcate was fixed to be held in 

 the Society's hall on Tuesday and Wednesdaj', the 13th and 14th April, between the 

 hours of ten and four ; and that the practical examination would be held in MrBuist's 

 Auction Mart, Lauriston, on Monday the 12th, at ten a.m. — candidates being required 

 to enter their names with the Secretary on or before the 8th April. 



Ordnance Sdrvey. — The draft of a memorial to the Lords of the Treasurj- on the 

 comjjletion of the survey of Scotland was approved of. 



Glasgow Show, 1875. — Letters to the conveners of the counties connected with the 

 show, and to the Lord Provost of Glasgow, as to the nomination of the Local Coiu- 

 mittee, were submitted and approved. 



Aberdeen Show, 1876. — Tlie Board approved of letters being addressed to the 

 conveners of the counties, in the district of the show, in regard to the auxiliary sub- 

 scription. 



International Exhibition at Phil.vdelphia. —The Secretary submitted a com- 

 munication from the Executive Commissioner for the International Exhibition to be 

 held at Philadelphia in 1876, transmitting a letter from the Duke of Richmond, the 

 Lord President of the Council, to His Pv-oyal Highness the Prince of Wales as presi- 

 dent of the Highland and Agricultural Society, relative to the above-mentioned Exhi- 

 bition, along with the general regulations for exhibitors issued by the United States 

 Centennial Commission . 



The Secretary was instnicted to forward the letter to his Pioyal Highness, and to 

 inform him that due publicity would be given to the i^roposed Exhibition. 



The following is a brief summaiy of the conditions ujion which the Exhibition will be 

 conducted : — Her Majesty's Government having accepted the invitation of the President 

 of the United States to take part in this international exhibition, have placed the 

 British section under the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, and the 

 Lord President of the Council has appointed Mr Philip Cnnlitt'e Owen, C.B., Executive 

 Commissioner. While the Executive will do all in its power generally to assist and 

 advise British exhibitors, it will be \inderstood by exhibitors that, in accordance with 

 the precedents of previous international exhibitions, they or their agents must be 

 responsible for the packing, ibrwarding, unpacking, and reception of their goods, as 

 well as for their safety during the continuance of the Exhibition. The salient points 

 of the general regulations affecting foreign exhibitors, and the special regulations 

 governing the free importations of exhibits, as determined by the Centennial Commis- 

 sion, are, so far as'at present decided, as follows : — 1 . The Exhibition will open at Phila- 

 delphia on the 10th May, and close on the 10th November 1876. 2. Before 1st May 

 1875, the British Executive must state whether the sjiace allotted is sufficient or defi- 

 cient, and should therefore receive the demands from proposing exhibitors before 25th 

 April 1875. 3. Before 1st December 1875 the Executive must send in plans in detail, 

 showing individual allotments, with all catalogue information. 4. No charge for space. 

 The British agricultiiral sections have been placed under the sujierintendence of Mr 

 Brandreth Gibbs, Half-Moon Street, Piccadilly, London. 



Horticultural Exhibition at AmsterdaJi.— The Secretary submitted bulletin 

 No. 1 of an International Horticultural Exhibition, to be held in 1876 at Amsterdam, 

 by the Commission for Regulating National and International Horticultural Exhibi- 

 tions, in conjunction with the existing horticultural societies and similar associations and 

 establishments in that country. 



The Family of the late Mr Reid, Geanton Lodge. —An application was made 

 to the Board on behalf of Mrs Reid, Granton Lodge, whose late husband was well 

 known to many mend^ers of the Society as a wool broker at Granton and Berwick-on- 

 Tweed, the inventor of Reid's cattle truck, and the author of a useful little book on the 

 sheep, and who has died, leaving a widow and four children in very reduced circum- 

 stances. The Directors having taken the case into consideration, deem it well worthy 

 the sympathy of the IMembers of the Society and of all interested in the conveyance of 

 stock, and authorise the Secretary, with their full ajiproval, to collect subscriptiou.s. 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 5th MAY 1875. 



Present — The Hon. G. R. Venion, Auchans House; Sir Robert J. Milliken Napier 

 of Milliken, Bart.; Sir Alexander Jardine of Applegarth, Bart.; Sir Thomas Buchan 

 Hepburn of Smeaton, Bart.; Sir George Macpherson Grant of Ballindalloch, Bart.; 

 Admiral Sir William J. Hope Johnstone, K. C. B. ; Mr Graham Binny, W. S. ; Mr Findlay 

 of Easterhill ; Mr Gillon of Wallhouse ; Mr Milne Home of Wedderburn ; Mr Howatson 

 of Dornel ; Mr Hunter of Thurston ; ]\Ir Hutchison of Carlovvrie ; Colonel lunes of 

 Learney; Mr Johnstone of Bodesbeck; Mr Small Keir of Kindrogan ; Mr Kenneth Mac- 

 kenzie, C.A.; ]\Ir Munro, Fairnington ; Mr Murray of Dollerie ; Mr Scot Skirving, 

 Edinburgh ; Mr Swinton, Holyn Bank ; Captain Tod of Howden; Mr Walker of Row- 

 land; and Professor Wilson — Mr Small Keir of Kindrogan in the chair. Mr F. N. 



