PROCEEDINGS AT BOARD MEETINGS. 39 



control of the finance and other committees of the Society, a sum of L.270O 

 has, during the last forty years, been expended on naval students. The fund 

 now amounts to above L.5200, invested in heritable and other securities, and 

 the revenue is fully capable of meeting five allowances of L.40. 



Field Experiments. — At a meeting of the Committee on Field Experi- 

 ments held yesterday, it was arranged, and subsequently sanctioned by the 

 Directors, that the experiments for season 1867 should be similar to those 

 made in 1866', which are fully described in the last number of the " Society's 

 Transactions." The details to be carried out by Dr Anderson and a sub- 

 committee. 



Edinburgh Christmas Club. — Permission was given to the committee in 

 charge of the Edinburgh Christmas Club to hold the first general meeting of 

 the Club in the Society's Hall, on Wednesday the 5th of June. 



Testimonial to Rev. Patrick Bell. — The Secretary reported that the 

 subscriptions received to the testimonial to the Rev. Patrick Bell for bis 

 services in connection with the reaping-machine, amounted to L.709, 19s. 6d., 

 and that several additional sums had been intimated. As there are sub- 

 scription papers at all the banks in Scotland, and returns are to be received 

 by the beginning of June from the several agencies, it is expected that the 

 additional sum obtained through tliis channel will raise the subscriptions 

 considerably. , • 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 5th JUNE 1867. 

 Mr Dudgeon of Cargen in the Chair. 



Glasgow Show. — The committees named by the counties of Lanark, Ayr, 

 Argyll, Renfrew, Bute, and Arran were submitted, and a large deputation of 

 Directors was appointed to be present at the Show on the 30th and 31st July 

 and 1st August. Wednesday next being the last day for taking in entries, 

 the Secretary reported that he would attend at the Queen's Hotel, Glasgow, 

 on the 11th and 12th curt., to receive certificates and to close the list ; and 

 that a meeting of the General Committee would be held there on Wednesday 

 the 12th curt., at two o'clock. 



Professor of Veterinary Surgery. — On the recommendation of the 

 Society's Veterinary Committee, Mr W. Williams, of Bradford — who was 

 recently elected Principal of the Dick College, Edinburgh — was unanimously 

 appointed Professor of Veterinary Surgery to the Society. Mr Williams is a 

 graduate of the Edinburgh Veterinary College, and holds the Society's veteri- 

 nary certificate or diploma. The other business transacted had chiefly refer- 

 ence to the arrangements for the general meeting of the Society on the 19th, 

 the proposed royal veterinary charter for Scotland, the printing of the 

 Society's Transactions, and the awards for reports in competition for pre- 

 miums. 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 19th JUNE 1867. 



The Duke of Buccleuch, President of the Society, in the Chair. 



Transaction of business preparatory to the general meeting of this date. 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 3d JULY 1867. 

 Mr Gray, Southfield, in the Chair. 



The business had reference to Chair of Cattle Pathology, Veterinary 

 Charter, and Estimates for Printing the Society's Transactions, when the offer 

 by Messrs Neill & Company was accepted. 



