IMIOCEEDINGS AT UOAiiD MEETINGS. 7 



land and Agviciilturai Society of Scotland has sustained by the untimely death of Cap- 

 tain K. A. \i. Tod of llowden, who liad lillcd the ollico of a director from 1870 to ISlij, 

 anil had since 187"2 rendered mucli valuable service to the Society as chairman of its 

 Veteriniiry Committee, and wlio upon all occasions took a warm inteiest, not only in 

 the veterinary department, but in all that concerned tlie welfare of the Society. That 

 a copy of this resolution be Iransnutted to William Tod, Esij., of iJeatheryhaugh, the 

 late Captain Tod's brother." 



U\LL Axu Chamheus. — Tlie Hon. Ceorp;e Waldegrave Leslie, who gave notice of a 

 motion at last Board nu'cting in regard to new premises, being unavoidably cletained 

 in London, the IJirectors, while approving of it, considered it desirable, in conse- 

 'juence of the opposition which was manifested at the general meeting in January 

 187(3 to the Society's leaving its present hall, that Mr Leslie should himself bring 

 forward Ids motion at the general meeting on the Ibth of June. 



GENKiiiVL Meeting. -The half-yearly general meeting of the Society, for the 

 election of members and for other business, Avas fixed to be held on the ISth of June, 

 being the lirst Wednesday after the closing of the entries i'or the Perth Show. 



Agricultuual Education. — The following letter from the Science and Art Depart- 

 ment to the Secretary, dated 2Sth April was read : — 



"Sir, — With reference to your letter of the 8th inst., I am directed by the Lords 

 of the Committee of Council on Education to state, for the information of the High- 

 land and Agricultural Society of Scotland, that their Losdshijis have been pleased to 

 allow hohlers of the diploma of the Society to earn payments on the results of their 

 instruction in the principles of agriculture under this department without undergoing 

 the usual e.xamination. it will, however, be necessary for persons holding this 

 certificate to make application to the department before commencing teaching, in 

 accordance with section 35 of the Science Dii-ectory. — I am, Sir, your obedient servant. 



(Signed) Nokman 'Macleod." 



Veterinakt Department. — The report of the examinations for the Society's 

 veterinary certificate, which took place on the 7th and Sth Ajiril, was laid on the 

 table, from which it appeared that si.x students presented themselves for tlie final 

 exaniinati(ni, and that the whole had passed. 



The itrelimiuary e.-vamination of younger students was held at the same time, when 21 

 entered their names, and 14 passed. 



Chemical Department. — The Directors on the 2d of April remitted to the Chemical 

 Committee to frame a plan of procedure in consequence of the recommendation that 

 the chemist should be authorised to make analyses, at rates to be arranged sufficient 

 to pay him. The Committee met on the 23d, and having carefully considered the 

 subject, resolved to recommend — 1st, That a table of simple but clear instractions 

 for selecting and sending samples of artiticial mamires and feeding stull's for analyses 

 be jirepared for the use of members of the Society. 2d, That this table be suVjmitted 

 to the next general meeting of the Society, and authority requested to tlie following 

 course of action, viz.: — That when any member of the Society shall have purchased 

 artificial manures or feeding stutl's under a written guarantee, and shall have sub- 

 mitted to the Society's analytical chemist a sample of such artificial manure or 

 feeding .stulTs, taken in accordance with the Society's instructions above referred to ; 

 and when, upon analysis, the Society's chemist shall discover that serious discrepancy 

 exists l)etween the actual constituents of the article so analysed and the supposed 

 constituents as taken from the guarantee under which the article was purchased, he 

 (the chemist) sliall report such (liscre]]ancy in full detail to the Cliemical Committee, 

 and along witli his rejiort shall forward the invoice gurarantee, and any other 

 documents he may have received in connection with the case, and any correspondence 

 which may have passed between him and the vendor on the subject ; that thercupom 

 the Chemical Committee shall consider the whole circumstances of the case, and if 

 it apjjears to them that in the interests of the Society and of agriculture generally the 

 facts of the case and the name of the vendor should be published, thoy shall prepare 

 a report and submit it to the Society's law agents for their opinion, and shall then 

 submit their report, along witli tlio opinion of the Society's law agents, to the 

 Directors of the Society, who shall be empowered to deal with the matter in such 

 way .as they shall deem best. 3d, That a table of the current values at the port 

 of Leith of the units of the various constituents of artificial manures or feeding 

 stufls in common use bo prepared by the chemist periodicallj-, and submitted to the 

 Directors for approval and publication. 



The Board unanimously approved of the recommendations, and remitted to the 

 <!Onvener of the Chemical Committee to bring them before tlie general meeting in 

 June. 



Akgvle Naval Fund. — In accordance with the recommendation by the Committee 

 in charge of the Argyll Naval Fund, Mr Charles Hope Dundas, R.N.. was added to the 

 list of recipients. 



