PROCEEDINGS AT BOARD MEETINGS. 35 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 3d APRIL 1S67. 

 Lord Belhaven and Hamilton, K.T., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Agricultural Education. — The Secretary reported that the examinations 

 for the Society's agricultural certificate and diploma had been held on the 11th, 

 12th, and 13th March, when the following gentlemen passed the necessary ex- 

 aminations: — For Certificate and Diploma. — 1. Robert Brydon,Bumcastle, Ber- 

 wickshire ; 2. George Kent Walton, Long Compton, Warwickshire. For Cer- 

 tificate. — 1. James Cooper Bowstead, of Halkthorpe Hall, Penrith ; 2. Thomas 

 John Elliot, Wilton, Salisbury ; and a letter was read from Professor Wilson, 

 announcing that the prizes of L.6 and L.4 annually allowed by the Society to the 

 students who pass the best and second best examinations in the Agricultural 

 Class in the University of Edinburgh, had this year been awarded to — 1. 

 Richard George Scriven, Northamptonshire ;- 2. Robert Brydon, Burncastle, 

 Berwickshire. The prizes had, as usual, been given in books. 



Veterinary College.— It was reported that at a meeting of the Veterinary 

 Committee, on the 27th ult., the examiners had been appointed, and other 

 preliminary arrangements had been made for the examination of the students 

 at the College Hall on the 16th and 17th current, between the hours of eleven 

 and four. On the recommendation of the committee, the Directors unani- 

 mously resolved to give silver medals as formerly to those who pass the best 

 examination on anatomy, physiology, chemistry, materia medica, cattle patho- 

 logy, horse pathology, and best general examination. 



Glasgow Show, 1867. — The specification for the different fittings in con- 

 nection with the Glasgow Show, together with the plan of the ground, and 

 drawings of the various erections, which had been before the General Show 

 Committee on the 27th of March, were laid on the table. The Board approved 

 of the same, and authorised the Secretary to intimate to intending contractors 

 that the specification and relative plans would be seen at the Society's cham- 

 bers in Edinburgh ; or on application to the Local Secretaries, Messrs M'Cowan 

 and Brown, 87 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, between the 12th and 22d curt. 

 The usual letter addressed to the conveners in reference to the nomination of 

 the Committee of Superintendence was submitted, and the number from the 

 different counties was fixed as follows : — Lanark, 16 ; Renfrew, Argyll, and Ayr, 

 10 each ; Bute, 6 — in all, 52 ; besides the lords-lieutenant, vice-lieutenants, 

 conveners, and members of Parliament who ex officio belong to the committee. 



Aberdeen Show, 1868. — Letters to the conveners of the counties connected 

 with the Aberdeen Show (Aberdeen, Banff, Kincardine, and eastern division 

 of Forfar), in reference to the auxiliary subscription, were submitted and 

 approved of. 



District Shows. — A grant for this year was allowed to the Edinburgh 

 Christmas Club to the amount of L.50, to be offered in the form of special 

 prizes to be named by the Club and approved of by the Directors of the High- 

 land Society. The Secretary having brought under the notice of the meeting 

 that the district of Formartine, in Aberdeenshire, was entitled to the Society's 

 cattle premiums in 1868, the Directors resolved that they should be allowed to 

 be competed for this year, as all local shows in 1868 are in abeyance in Aber- 

 deenshire on account of the General Show being held there that year. 



Grass Seeds from British Columbia. — The Secretary reported that in 

 the spring of 1866 the Society had received three communications from Mr 

 W. E. Cormack, New Westminster, British Columbia, transmitting four 

 samples of grass seeds indigenous to that district. In the first letter, Mr 

 Cormack says: — 



" I beg to forward to you a little of the seed of the inestimable bunch grass 

 of British Columbia, celebrated on account of its nutritious qualities for 

 strengthening and fattening horses and horned cattle, and which, if introduced 



