12 PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS. 



only refer to one of these, in No. 8, which applied to ewes and gimmers. The 

 words, " taken from regular breeding flocks'' had been struck out, not because 

 it was not iu itself an excellent regulation, but because it had been found in 

 practice very difficult to carry out, and the occasion of great wrangling and 

 discontent. All the other changes in the regulations would be found to be on 

 pure matters of detail, and required no special reference. 



The Late Earl of Rosslyn. 



Mr Kinloch, in concluding his report on the General Shows, said he could 

 not sit down without alluding for a moment to the great loss which the Society 

 had sustained in the death of one who for many years, as chairman of the 

 General Show Committee, had taken an active and leading part in the man- 

 agement of the affairs of the Society. He believed — and he said it advisedly 

 - — that to few men was that Society more indebted for its present prosperity 

 and popularity than to the late Earl of Rosslyn. During the past twenty 

 years he had discharged all the duties intrusted to him with honour to him- 

 self, advantage to the Society, and so as to secure the esteem and confidence 

 and — he was sure he might add — a large measure of the affection of the agri- 

 cultural community of Scotland. His open, cheerful, winning expression of 

 countenance, so characteristic of him, was but the reflection of the feeling of 

 his heart. Those who had been in the habit of attending the general shows 

 of the Society would miss him sadly ; and they might justly say, as indeed 

 many had already said, that it would be long before they met with one who 

 so fully realised the idea — and it was no mean standard — of a perfect English 

 gentleman. He was sure that it would be in accordance with the feelings and 

 wishes of the meeting that he should move, as he now begged to do, that the 

 Society enter on its minutes a record\of their keen sense of the loss they had 

 sustained in the removal of the late Earl of Rosslyn, and their sense of the 

 valuable services he had rendered to the Society. 



The Duke of Buccleuch expressed his cordial approval of the motion of 

 Mr Kinloch, and said that it was within the knowledge of them all how 

 anxious Lord Rosslyn was to promote the interests of the Society, and how 

 zealously he discharged his duty in every position in which he was placed. 

 No one was more universally beloved and esteemed than the late Earl of 

 Rosslyn. 



The motion of Mr Kinloch was carried by acclamation. 



The Secretary stated that, though he had not had formal notice from the 

 Lord Provost of Glasgow respecting the granting of the use of Glasgow Green, 

 or the subscription of L.200 towards the show, he had seen it noticed in the 

 newspajjers that such had been done. 



District Shows, &c. 



Mr Stirling of Kippendavie moved that the sum of L.634 be granted for 

 premiums to district shows during 1867. In the absence of the Convener of 

 the Committee on Cottage Competitions, he had also been requested to move 

 that the sum of L.88 be granted for the encouragement of cottage competitions 

 during 1867. These competitions had become very popular within the past few 

 years, and he was sure they would all be glad to do everything in their power 

 to improve the condition of the cottagers in Scotland. 



The grants were unanimously agreed to. 



Chair of Agriculture. 

 Sir Walter Elliot of Wolfelee said he had to bring before them the 

 subject of the better endowment of the Chair of Agriculture in the University 

 of Edinburgh. Much had been done recently by the Commissioners for the 

 Improvement of the Universities in Scotland, and the changes they had pro- 

 posed had all been agreed to, but the Chair of Agriculture had been omitted. 



