PROCEEDINGS AT BOARD MEETINGS. 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 5th FEBRUARY 1S68. 

 Mr Campbell Swinton of Kimmergliame in the Chair. 



Glasgow Show 1867. — A letter was read from the Lord Provost of Glasgow, 

 returning his thanks for the terms in which is services were noticed at the General 

 Meeting in January 1868. 



Chair of Agriculture. — The Secretary reported that, in accordance with the 

 resolution of the last General Meeting of the Society, he had made the necessary 

 application to Government in regard to the endowment of the Chair of Agricul- 

 ture in the University of Edinburgh ; that a deputation had afterwards waited on 

 Mr Hunt, M.P., the Financial Secretary of the Treasury, on the subject, and 

 that a letter had since been received from Mr Hunt, stating that the Lords Com- 

 missioners of Her Majesty's Treasury will be prepared to place upon the estimates 

 for the ensuing year the sum of £150, for the endowment of the Chair of Agricul- 

 ture, to meet a like sum to be contributed by the Highland Society, and that 

 sbould Parliament assent to the grant of the money, their Lordships propose to 

 ask the House of Commons for a similar grant so long as . an equivalent sum is 

 contributed by the Society, and so long as the value set by students upon the lectures 

 to be delivered, as evidenced by the attendence at them, shall be such as to justify 

 their Lordships in taking such a course. 



Veterinary Charter. — A letter was read from Dr J. G. Fleming, President of the 

 Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, pointing out that, as the draft 

 charter for a Royal Veterinary College for Scotland at present stands, it is not 

 proposed to have representatives from that corporation as trustees, and trusting 

 that the Directors of the Highland Society would see the propriety of placing the 

 faculty on an equal footing with the Edinburgh medical corporations. 



Mr Hozier, yr. of Mauldslie, supported the application, and the Directors in- 

 structed the Secretary to inform Dr Fleming that they considered it fair that the 

 Glasgow faculty should have one representative or two, if the other promoters of 

 charter did not object. 



Agricultural Education — Monday, Tuesday, and "Wednesday, the 16th, 17th, 

 and 18th March, were announced as the days of examination for the Society's 

 agricultural certificate and diploma — candidates being required to lodge intima- 

 tion of their intention to come forward on or before the 2d of March. 



Technical Education. — The Secretary reported that Sir James Elphinstone and 

 Mr Caird had, along with himself, represented the Society at the Conference on 

 Technical Education, held in London on the 23d and 24th of January, and he 

 laid on the table the resolutions adopted on the occasion. 



At the request of the Council of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, 

 &c, London, the Secretary was instructed to give his aid in promoting the objects 

 of the conference, by serving on the Standing Committee appointed to give effect 

 to the resolutions referred to. 



Standing Committees for 1868. — The names of the gentlemen placed on the 

 Standing Committees for the current year were read and approved. 



Aberdeen Show. — Letters were submitted from the clerk of supply for Kin- 

 cardineshire, stating that the county had agreed to levy a voluntary assessment 

 towards the expenses of the Aberdeen Show, and transmitting L.140. As already 

 intimated, the counties of Aberdeen and Banff have also agreed to voluntary assess- 

 ments to the amount of L.490 and L.120 respectively. The programme of the 

 show, containing the premium list and regulations as finally adjusted, was laid on 

 the table. 



