38 PROCEEDINGS AT BOAED MEETINGS. 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 1st MAY 1867. 

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



General Meeting. — The Half-yearly General Meeting of the Society was 

 fixed to be held on Wednesday the 19th of June, being the week after the 

 closing of the entries for the Glasgow Show. 



Glasgow Show. — Tenders for enclosing and fitting up the showyard to be 

 erected on Glasgow Green were reported from eight builders, three belonging 

 to Edinburgh and five to Glasgow. The estimate by Messrs John Wather- 

 ston & Sons, Edinburgh, was accepted, being L.180 less than the lowest 

 Edinburgh offer, and L.90 under the lowest from Glasgow. It was resolved 

 that the head-quarters of the Society, when in Glasgow on the occasion of the 

 Show, should, as in 1850 and 1857, be at the Queen's Hotel. The arrange- 

 ments as to the public banquet, refreshments in the yard, and provender for 

 stock, were remitted to the Committee on General Shows. On the mo- 

 tion of Mr Geddes, Orbliston, seconded by Mr Heddle of Melsetter, it was 

 agreed that sleeping accommodation, as at Inverness, should be supplied 

 within the Glasgow showyard for the men in charge of stock, exhibitors who 

 are desirous of availing themselves of such accommodation being required, 

 when making their entries, to specify the number of men for whom it is 

 required. 



Veterinary College. — After the report of the examination for the 

 Society's veterinary certificate had been submitted, a correspondence was read 

 in reference to obtaining a veterinary charter for Scotland ; and it was re- 

 mitted to the Society's Veterinary Committee to draw up a memorial to the 

 Privy Council on the subject. The Secretary having stated that Professor 

 Hallen had resigned his appointment as Professor of Veterinary Surgery to 

 the Society, in consequence of his being required to return to his duties under 

 his commission in Her Majesty's Indian Service, the following resolution was 

 unanimously adopted : — ' ' The Board cannot accept Professor's Hallen's 

 resignation of the appointment of Professor of Veterinary Surgery to the 

 Highland and Agricultural Society without recording in their minutes its sense 

 of the value of his services as Professor of Veterinary Surgery in the Edinburgh 

 Veterinary College, and the great regret with which his resignation of that 

 office has been received." 



The following letter, from Mr Gillon of Wallhouse to the Secretary of the 

 Jockey Club, London, in reference to a recent rule of the Club, was read : — 



" Wallhouse, Bathgate, April 29, 1867. 

 " Sir, — As chairman of the Veterinary Committee of the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society of Scotland, I beg to call your attention to No. 15 of the 

 Jockey Club Rules, regarding certificates for foreign horses — ' to be signed by 

 a veterinary surgeon being a member of the Royal College of Veterinary 

 Surgeons ' — and to request your consideration whether it would not be desir- 

 able to add thereafter, ' or holder of the Highland and Agricultural Society's 

 diploma ' — such graduates for many years past having been eligible for the 

 army, as well as for all civil appointments. — I am, Sir, your most obedient 

 servant, (Signed) "A. Gillon." 



Argyll Naval Fund. — On the recommendation of the Committee in 

 charge of Argyll Naval Fund, of which Admiral Sir William J. Hope John- 

 stone, K.C.B., is chairman, a fifth naval cadet (Mr George Pirie, RN., a 

 native of the island of Mull) was added to the list of recipients. 



The fund was instituted in 1806 by the donation of L.1000 from the late 

 John, fifth Duke of Argyll (the original President of the Highland Society), 

 for the purpose of assisting in the maintenance and education of the sons of 

 Highland gentlemen destined for the royal navy. The donation was allowed 

 to accumulate till 1826, when it amounted to L.2314, and, under the prudent 



