PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS. 9 



and Co., Printers ; Mackay, Cunningham, and Co., Silversmiths ; Alexander 

 Kirkwood, Medalist ; Alexander Slight, Curator of Implements and Machines ; 

 John Watherston & Sons, Inspectors of Works ; William M'Neill, Messenger. 

 Chairmen of Standing Committees. — Argyll Naval Fund — Admiral Sir 

 William J. Hope Johnstone, K.C.B., Chemistry — Professor Anderson. 

 Cottages — Harry Maxwell Inglis of Logan Bank. District Shows — A. 

 Campbell Swinton, yr. of Kimmerghame. Finance — Anthony Murray of 

 Dollerie. General Shows — Alexander Kinloch, yr. of Gilmerton. House and 

 Buildings — John Ord Mackenzie of Dolphinton. Machinery — John Gibson, 

 Woolmet. Premiums for Reports on the Science and Practice of Agriculture 

 — Professor Lyon Playfair, C.B. Premiums for Reports on Woods and Plan- 

 tations — Professor Balfour. Publications — Alexander Forbes Irvine of Drum. 

 Veterinary College Examinations — Professor Goodsir. 



Council on Education. 



By a Supplementary Charter under the Great Seal, granted in 1856, the 

 Society is empowered to prescribe a curriculum for agricultural education, and 

 to grant diplomas. 



Members of Council named by Charter. — The Duke of Buccleuch, President ; 

 the Lord Justice-General, Vice-President ; the Lord Advocate ; the Dean of 

 Faculty; the Professor of Agriculture ; the Professor of Anatomy ; the Pro- 

 fessor of Botany ; the Professor of Chemistry ; the Professor of Natural 

 Hi>tory. 



Members of Council named by Society. — Sir George Clerk, Bart. ; Sir W. 

 Gibson-Craig, Bart. ; Sir Alexander C. R. Gibson-Maitland, Bart. ; George 

 Hope, Fenton Barns ; Robert Russell, Pilmuir ; Henry Stephens, Eedbrae 

 Cottage ; John Wilson, Edington Mains. 



Board of Examiners. — Science and Practice of Agriculture, Mechanics and 

 Construction — Professor Wilson ; George Hope, Fenton Bams; Robert Russell, 

 Pilmuir ; and John Wilson, Edington Mains. Botany — Professor Balfour. 

 Chemistry — Professor Anderson. Natural History — Professor Allnian. 

 Veterinary Surgery — Professor Hallen. Field Engineering and Surveying — 

 Professor Macquorn Rankine ; David Stevenson, C.E.. Book-lceeping and 

 Accounts — Kenneth Mackenzie, C.A. ; and Archibald Paterson, Meadowfield. 



The late Mr Hall Maxwell, C.B. 

 The Secretary then read the following resolutions of a meeting of the 

 Directors of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 3d September 

 1866. His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, K.G., President 

 of the Society, in the Chair : — 



" 1. That the Directors desire unanimously to express the deep and sincere 

 regret with which they have received the information of the death of their 

 late Secretary, Mr John Hall Maxwell, C.B. 

 " 2. That the Society having, in the minutes of the general meeting held on 

 the 17th January 1866, recorded, upon Mr Maxwell's resignation of the 

 office of Secretary, their sense of the remarkable zeal, energy, and ability 

 with which Mr Maxwell had for twenty years discharged the duties of 

 his office, it only remains for the Directors to deplore the loss which they 

 and the Society have now suffered by the death of one whose presence at 

 their meetings, both as an Extraordinary Director and as a member of the 

 Society, would have doubtless proved of great service if his life had been 

 prolonged. 

 " 3. That the Directors request the chairman to transmit a copy of these 

 resolutions to Mrs Hall Maxwell, with their respectful condolence and 

 sympathy upon the occasion of the painful bereavement which Mrs 

 Maxwell and her family have sustained." 

 The Secretary also read a letter from Mrs Maxwell, thanking the Directors 

 for their communication. 



