22 PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS. 



GENERAL MEETING, 15th JANUARY 1868. 



In absence of the President and Vice-Presidents, the Most Noble the 

 Marquis of Tweed ale, K.T., one of the former Vice-Presidents, took the 

 Chair, and constituted the meeting. 



The late Sir George Clerk. 



The noble Chairman said he regretted much that the first matter he should 

 have to bring before them was the lamented death of Sir George Clerk, who 

 had been so long a faithful servant of the Highland Society, and who had 

 always taken the deepest interest in agriculture and in natural science. 



The Secretary then read the following resolution of the Directors, which 

 was approved of, and ordered to be engrossed : — 



" Before proceeding to the business of the day, the Directors resolved to 

 record in their minutes the deep regret with which they regard the death 

 of the Right Hon. Sir George Clerk of Penicuik, Bart., and to express 

 their sense of the valuable assistance which the Society had for many 

 years received from him as Honorary Secretary, and as a member of the 

 Council on Agricultural Education." 

 On the motion of the noble Chairman, Sir William Stirling-Maxwell was 

 appointed to succeed the late Sir George Clerk as Honorary Secretary, and 

 Lord Colonsay was appointed in his stead a member of the Council on Agri- 

 cultural Education. 



Establishment for 1868. 



In conformity with the recommendation of the Directors, the following 

 were elected office-bearers for 1868 : — 



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



Vice-Presidents— The Earl of Dalhousie, K.T.; the Earl of Fife, K.T.; the 

 Earl of Southesk ; the Earl of Kintore. 



Extraordinary Directors — Sir Michael R. Shaw-Stewart, Bart. ; Sir James 

 Eergusson, Bart., M.P. ; Sir Walter Elliot of Wolfelee, K.S.I. ; Archibald A. 

 Spiers of Elderslie, M.P. ; Sir James Horn Burnett, Bart. ; Sir Alexander 

 Bannerman, Bart. ; John Gordon of Cluny ; Alexander Forbes Irvine of Drum, 

 Lieutenant-Colonel M'Inroy of the Burn ; Alexander Morison of Bognie. 



Ordinary Directors — Sir Alexander C. Ramsay Gibson-Maitland, Bart. ; 

 George Robertson Barclay of Keavil ; John Dudgeon, Almondhill ; Robert 

 Dundas of Arniston ; William Goodlet, Bolshan ; James Roberton, Ladyrig ; 

 John Stirling of Kippendavie ; Archibald Campbell Swinton of Kimmer- 

 ghame ; William Stuart Walker of Bowland ; Sir Thomas Buchan Hepburn, 

 Bart. ; William Wallace Hozier, yr. of Mauldslie ; Colonel William Mure of 

 Caldwell ; Thomas Park, Stoneyhill ; Walter Reid, Drem ; Graham Somervell 

 of Sorn ; Graham Binny, W.S., Edinburgh ; Colonel Archibald Campbell, yr. 

 of Blythswood ; Colonel Joseph Dundas of Carronhall ; Robert Elliot, Laigh- 

 wood ; James Geddes, Orbliston ; John Ord of Muirhouselaw ; Major John 

 Ramsay of Barra ; Robert Russell, Pilmuir ; Sir James Gardner Baird of 

 Saughton Hall, Bart. ; Hew Crichton, S.S.C., Edinburgh ; Charles Lawson of 

 Borthwick Hall ; Alexander M'Dougal, Granton Mains ; Thomas Mylne, 

 Niddrie Mains ; Thomas Coutts Trotter, Bilston Lodge ; John Wilson, 

 Edington Mains. 



Office-Bearers — The Right Hon. Sir William Gibson-Craig of Riccarton, 

 Bart., Treasurer ; Sir William Stirling-Maxwell of Keir, Bart., M.P., Hon. 

 Secretary ; Fletcher Norton Menzies, Secretary ; Rev. James Grant, D.C.L., 

 D.D., Chaplain ; Thomas Anderson. M.D., Professor of Chemistry, University 

 of Glasgow, Chemist ; Kenneth Mackenzie, C.A., Auditor; John Wilson, 



