8 PKOCEEDIXGS AT BOAKD MEETINGS. 



Deceased Members. — Before taking up the businses of the programme, the Direc- 

 tors entered on their minutes resohitions expressive of their sense of the services to the 

 Society of the late Sir Jolm Stewart Richardson of Pitfour, Bart., and the late Mr. 

 Graham Somervell of Sorn, convener of the county of A}t, and of the loss which the 

 Society had sustained by their death, both gentlemen having on various occasions held 

 the office of Ordinary and Extraordinary Director. 



A letter was read from the Earl of H ome, conveying to the Directors his sincere 

 gratitude for theu' kind expressions and regret regarding his father's death, as recorded 

 in their resolution of 2nd November. 



International Fisheries Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1882.— The Board agreed to 

 subscribe 100 guineas to the guarantee fund being raised in connection with the Inter- 

 national Fisheries Exhibition to be held at Edinljurgh in April next. 



General Shows — Glasgov) SJiovj, 1882.— At the meeting of the Board in November, 

 it was remitted to the Committee on General Shows to suggest the premiums and 

 revise the regulations for the Show to be held at Glasgow next year. The Committee 

 held its meeting on 16th November, and recommended premiums to the amount of 

 £2783 ; and that the Show should be held at the usual period — namely, from the 25th 

 to the 28th of July, both days inclusive. 



The report was approved of, and the Secretary was instructed to submit the premium 

 list and regulations to a meeting of members to be held in the George (late Queen's) 

 Hotel, Glasgow, on Wednesday the 14th current, at one o'clock. 



Inverness Shoiv, 1883. — The classes for the proposed Show at Inverness in 1883, as 

 suggested l)y the General Show Con)mittee, were submitted to the Board, previous to 

 being laid before a meeting of members to be held at Inverness on Friday the 16th cur- 

 rent, at one o'clock. 



Agricultural Examinations. — The examinations for the Society's certificate and 

 diploma in agriculture and for the Society's certificate in forestry were fixed to be held 

 on the 17th, 18th, and 19th April 1882, candidates being required to lodge intimation 

 on or before the 3rd of April with the Secretary, from whom further information may 

 be obtainel. 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 4th JANUARY 1882. 



Present — Lord Arthur Cecil ; Sir M. R. Shaw Stewart of Greenock and Blackball, 

 Bart. ; Sir J. H. Gibson-Craig of Riccarton, Bart. ; Dr. Balfour ; Mr. Cunningham, Tar- 

 breoch ; Mr. Dingwall, Ramornie ; ]\Ir. Scott Dudgeon, Longnewton ; Mr. Dundas of 

 Arniston; Mr. Elliot, Blackhaugh ; Rev. John Gillespie, Mouswald Manse ; Mr. Maxtone 

 Graham of Cultoquhey ; Colonel Hare of Gaidar Hall ; Mr. Hendrie of Larbert ; Mr. 

 Hope, Duddingston ; Mr. Eliott Lockhart of Borthwickbrae ; Mr. Murray of Dollerie ; 

 Mr. Mylne, Niddrie Mains ; Mr. Pott of Dod ; Mr. J. Turnbull Smith, C.A.; Mr. Smith, 

 Whittinghame ; Mr. Cam])be]l Swinton of Kimmerghame ; Mr. Walker of Bowland, 

 C.B. ; Professor Wilson ; and Dr. Aitkeu — Mr. Smith, Whittinghame, in the chair. 



Mr. F. N. Menzies reported apologies for the absence of Sir W. Carmichael Au- 

 struther, Bart. ; Admiral Sir William Edmonstone, Bart. ; Sir Henry J. Seton Steuart, 

 Bart.; Colonel Gillon of Wallhouse ; Mr. Milne Home of Milne Graden ; Mr. Irvine of 

 Drum ; Mr. Kennedj of Sunday well ; Mr. Mackenzie of Portmore ; Mr. Ralston, Glamis 

 House ; and Mr. Scott, Glendronach. 



Letters were read from Sir James T. Stewart Richardson of Pitfour, Bart., conveying 

 to the Directors the thanks of his family for the resolution passed at the Board meeting 

 on the 7th December regarding the death of his father ; and from Mrs. Graham Somer- 

 vell of Sorn, ex^Dressing her sincere thanks for the manner in which the Directors re- 

 corded their regard and esteem for her late husband. 



Foot-and-Mouth Disease. — The Secretary reported that he had that morning 

 learned that Foot-and-Mouth Disease had broken out on two farms near Millom, in 

 Cumberland, and that he had immediately sent a telegtam to the Privy Council Office 

 to ask tliat Cumberland be shut out from Scotland at once. Professor Brown, of the 

 Veterinary Department, had telegraphed back that the matter was under consideration, 

 and that in the meantime Local Authorities in Scotland could protect themselves by 

 declining to give the necessary licence for the movement of animals out of Cumberland 

 under article 5 of the Order. 



Office-Bearers. — The Secretary reported that the names of the noblemen and 

 gentlemen to be ]»roposed by the Directors at the General IMeeting on the 18th current 

 to fill the vacancies in the list of office-bearers for 1882 had l)een published in tenns of 

 the Charter. 



Directorate. — The report by committee appointed to consider the business arrange- 

 ments of the Society, and the present system of selecting Directors, was submitted, Mr. 

 Scott Dudgeon giving notice of a motion at general meeting, of which see report. 



