APPENDIX (A). 



PBOCEEDINGS 



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THE HIGHLAND AND AGBICULTUKAL 

 SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND. 



PKELIMINAKY NOTICE. 



The Directors having resolved to publish in the Transactions 

 the Proceedings at the half yearly General Meetings of the 

 Society, as well as an abstract of the business at the Board 

 Meetings, the usual Preliminary Notice to each volume will in 

 future be superseded. 



They, however, consider it their duty specially to record that, 

 since the date of the last notice, the Society has had to regret 

 the death of two distinguished Members, Mr Macduff of 

 Bonhard, who died while holding the office of Secretary, and 

 Mr Hall Maxwell of Dargavel, C.B., who held the same post 

 for upwards of twenty years. The sense of the great loss the 

 Society sustained by the death of these gentlemen has found 

 expression in the Besolutions adopted at the General Meetings 

 in June 1866, and January 1867. 



The Directors must further take this opportunity of recording 



their opinion that the Society has been exceedingly fortunate in 



the choice of its present Secretary, Mr Fletcher Norton Menzies. 



The ability he has already shown — particularly the manner 



in which he conducted the last General Show at Glasgow, 



satisfactory alike to the Society and the public — affords the best 



earnest that while he holds office the business will continue to 



be performed in a way worthy of the important place which the 



Society has long held in the estimation of the public. 



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