6 PROCEEDINGS AT BOARD MEETINGS. 



Glasgow Show, 1S75.— A letter was submitted from Mr W. Alston Dykes, clerk of 

 supply, Hamilton, sending L.899, Os. 5d., the amount of the voluntary contribution 

 by the county of Lanark in aid of the auxiliary fund. 



Aberdeen Show, 1876. —A letter was submitted from the county clerk for Banff- 

 shire intimating that the Commissioners of Supply had, at their annual meeting, re- 

 solved to raise a fund to assist in meeting the e.xpense by a voluntary assessment. 



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

 rinary certificate on the 12th, 13th, and 14th April was laid on the table, from which 

 it appeared that 40 students presented themselves for examination, and that 32 passed. 

 The two medium gold medals given to the students who passed the best practical ami 

 best general e.xamination were awarded as follows : — Best Practical Examination — Wil- 

 liam W. McGwire, Dublin. Best General Examination — Israel Print, Wolford, 

 Warwickshire. 



Captain Tod of Howden, chairman of the Society's Veterinary Department, said, — 

 I wish to make a short explan.-ition with reference to my remarks at tlie close of these 

 examinations relative to the students of the New College not being admitted to the 

 slaughter-houses. Mr Harris, depute town-clerk, very courteously sent me a copy of 

 a short corresj^ondence (which I have handed to our .secretarj'), from which it aj^pears 

 that the Town Council had not officially refused admittance. The impression arose 

 from some members of the Town Council recommending Principal Williams not to 

 forward an application when he consulted them as to the propriety of doing so. My 

 object in making the statement was to obtain equal privileges for all veterinary stu- 

 dents, which I hope the municipal authorities will now give. 



Subscription for Mrs Reid and Family. — Mr Menzies reported that the sub- 

 scription on behalf of the family of the late Mr William Reid, Granton and Berwick, 

 was progressing favourably, but that he had not received anything from those who 

 were not members of the Society, and he feared it was not known that he would 

 accept subscriptions ft-om the public. 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 2d JUNE 1875. 



Present — The Hon. Greville R. Vernon, Auchaus House; Sir Thomas Buchan 

 Plepburn 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 Dove, 

 Crosshall ; Mr Findlay of Springhill ; Mr Gibson, Woolmet ; Mr Gillon of Wallhouse ; 

 Mr Milne Home of Wedderburn ; Mr Hunter of Thui-ston; Mr Small Keirof Kindrogau; 

 Mr Mackenzie of Portmore ; Mr Scot Skirving, Edinburgh ; Mr Graham Somervell of 

 Sorn ; Mr Swinton, Holyu Bank ; Captain Tod of Howden ; Mr Pettigrew Wilson of 

 Polquhairu.— Mr Small Keir of Kindrogan in the chair. ]\Ir F. N. Menzies reported 

 apologies for the absence of Messrs Harvey, Whittingham Mains; Howatson of Dornel; 

 Hutchison of Carlowrie; G. Auldjo Jamiesou, C.A.; Johnstone of Bodesbeck ; Colonel 

 Innes of Learney ; Messrs Irvine of Drum ; Kenneth Mackenzie, C.A.; Muuro Fair- 

 nington; Murray of DoUerie ; Walker of Bowland, and Professor Wilson. 



General Meeting. — The programme of business for the half-yearly general meeting 

 on the 16th current, was arranged as follows:— Election of Members; Arrangements for 

 Glasgow Show 1875, and Aberdeen Show 1876; ]\Iotion by Mr Barclay, M.P., in regard 

 to the selection of judges; Agricultural Education;— Report of Examinations— bye-laws; 

 Chemical Department:— Report by Directors, and Resignation of Professor Dewar— 

 report by Professor Dewar; Motion by Colonel Innes of Learny; Report of Veterinary 

 Examinations; Volume VII. of Society's Transactions— Memorial to the Treasury on 

 Ordnance Survey — Steam cultivation.' 



New Members. — The list of condidates for election at the general meeting was sub- 

 mitted; and the Seci-etary stated that he could, in terms of the bye-laws, receive 

 additional names up to the morning of the 16th. 



CHE^^CAL Department.- The minute of the committee appointed to draw up a 

 Report on the Chemical Department to be submitted to the general meeting was read, 

 and, after some discussion, was approved —Mr Milne Home of Wedderburn entering 

 Ms dissent specially in reference to the appointment of a chemist. 



A letter was read from Dr Liiulsay, Dollar, sending excerpt from minutes of the trustees 

 of Dollar Institution proposing a meeting with a committee of the directors in reference 

 to a garden attached to Dollar Institution, which it is proposed to use as an experi- 

 mental agricultural station. 



Mr Milne Home of Wedderburn, Mr Scot Skirving, and Mr Swinton, Holyn Bank, 

 were named a committee to meet with the Dollar committee. 



Glasgow Show. — Auxiliary Subscription. — Letters were reported from the Clerks of 

 Sup])ly for the counties of Ayr and Bute, sending the amount of the voluntary asse.ss- 

 Jueut iu these counties. 



