2 FKOCEEDINGS AT BOAKD ^MEETINGS. 



for publicatiou Ccin be introduced \vitli advantage, iu terms of tlie resolution of 

 last general meeting. Gaelic Ma7mscrij)is.— The Secretary reported that the curators 

 of the Advocates' Library had presented to the Society a list of tlie Gaelic manu- 

 scripts belonging to the Society, "ivhich were some years since deposited for preser- 

 vation iu their library. The catalogue had been prepared by Mr W. F. Skene, 

 W.S., and the curators had included in the list a catalogue of the manuscripts belonging 

 to the Faculty of Advocates. 



The Secretary stated that he had already, in name of the Board, thanked the 

 curators for the catalogue. 



Stallion Competition at Perth. — The Board had before them ami fully con- 

 sidered the advertisement issued by the Committee appointed to take charge of the 

 stallion competition at Perth, when, after considerable discussion, it was resolved to 

 instruct the Secretary to inform the Convener of the Committee that that part of the 

 advertisement referring to committees attending the show to select horses to travel 

 their districts must be immediately cancelled, and an advertisement to that etfecb 

 issued at once. 



Family Prizes for Shorthorns. — It was resolved that a family prize for short- 

 horns should be given at the general show at Kelso in ISSO— each entry to consist of a 

 cow and two of her descendants, male or female. 



Finance. — The Secretary stated that (in consequence, he believed, of a notice 

 in the Oazette made by a member of tlie Society disclaiming membership) he had 

 received some applications inquiring if the holding of bank stock by the Society 

 involved the members in personal lialiility. 

 ■ The Directors instructed the Secretary to insert in the newspaper report of this 

 day's meeting the following statement : — " That the Society is incorporated by royal 

 charter, and" that the only obligation thereby imposed on members is payment of 

 their subscription ; that it had been announced from the bench of the Court of 

 Session that ' a corporation, being a separate person, has its o^vn estate and its own 

 liabilities, and the corporators (members) are not liable for the corporation, but only 

 to the corporation within the limit of the obligation they have imdertaken to sub- 

 scribe to the corporate funds ; ' members, therefore, are liable for nothing beyond 

 their subscriptions.-" 



Committees for 1879. — The various committees for the current year were 

 arranged. 



Veterinary Department. — The agreement between the Society and the Royal 

 College of Veterinary Surgeons referred to at the general meeting on the 15th 

 January 1879 was submitted. 



Argyll Naval Fund — Promotion of Suh-Lieutencmt Montgomerie. — ^A letter was 

 submitted from Mrs Montgomerie intimating that her son, Mr K. A. J. Montgomerie, 

 had been appointed by the Queen to her own yacht, and had got his lieutenancy in 

 Sei)tember last, one year before the usual time, on account of special services, in 

 conscfiuence of which jiromotion another vacancy occurs in the Ai'gyll Naval Fund. 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 5th MARCH 1879. 



Present — Lord Polwarth ; the Hon. George Waldegrave Leslie ; Sir Michael l\. 

 Shaw Stewart of Blackball, Bart.; Sir James Ramsay Gibson Maitland of Clifton 

 Hall, Bart.; Mr Dickson of Corstorphine ; Mr Dingwall, Ramornie ; Mr Gillou of 

 Wallhouse ; Mr Hope, Duddingston ; Mr Irvine of Drum ; Mr Kukwood, Killennont ; 

 Mr IMackenzie of Portmore ; 5Ir John Ord Mackenzie of Dolphinton ; Mr Murray 

 of Dollerie ; Mr Oswald of Dunnikier ; Mr Smith, Whittiughame ; Mr Smith, 

 Stevenson Mains ; Mr Seton Wightman of Conrance ; Mr Young of Cleish — Mr 

 Gillon in the chair. 



Mr F. N. Menzies reported apologies for the absence of Mr Jlylne, Niddrie Mains ; 

 and Jlr Ralston, Glamis. 



Before proceeding with the business on the programme, the following resolutions 

 wei'e unanimously agreed to : — 



Death op Mr Hunter op Thurston. — The death of Mr James William Hunter 

 of Thur.ston having been coniumnicateid to the Directors of the Highland and Agricul- 

 tural Society of Scotland, they resolved to record in their minutes their sincere 

 sorrow for his loss, and their sense of the obligations which the Society owes to him 

 as a director, a member of the Council on Education, and as chairman of the Society's 

 Machinery Committee ; and for the deep interest he took in the welfare of the 

 Society. 



Death op Mr Currok, The Lee. — That the Directors of the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society of Scotland desire to express their deep regret at the loss 



