32 PEOCEEDINGS AT GEXEKAL MEETINGS. 



4. Kdso District — Messrs Campbell-Swinton of Kimmerghame ; Munro, Faiming- 



ton ; and Lord Polwarth. 



5. Stirliiui District — Lord Dunniore, Messrs Murray, Catter House ; aud Hendrie 



of Larbert. 



6. Inverness District — Sir Kennetli Mackenzie of Gairlocli, Bart. ; Messrs MoUison, 



Dochgarroch Lodge ; and Smith, Whittinghame. 



7. Glasgoic District — Messrs Howatson of Domel ; Martin, Yr. of Auchendennau ; 



and Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart of Blackball, Bart. 



8. Aberdeen District — Sir William Forbes of Craigievar, Bart. ; Messrs G. J. 



Walker, Portlethen ; and Irvine of Dram. 

 On the 5th of March the Directors approved of the names suggested, and added Mr 

 Gillon of Wallhouse, Chairman of the General Show Committee, who was named 

 Convener. 



III. Report hy Committee. 



The Committee, in fulfilment of the duty devolved upon them, met on the 15th of 

 October, when the following members attended : — 



Sir Alexander Jaedine, Bart. Mr Martin, Yr. of Auchendennau. 



Sir Kenneth S. Mackenzie, Bart. Mr Mollison, Dochgarroch Lodge. 



Mr Cunningham, Tarbreoch. Mr Murray, Catter House. 



Mr Dundas of Ai-niston. Mr Mylne, Niddrie Mains. 



Mr Gibson, Woolmet. Mr Ralston, Glaniis House. 



:Sh- Gillon of Wallhouse. Mr Smith, Whittinghame. 



Mr Hendrie of Larbert. Mr Campbell-Swinton of Kimmerghame. 



air Howatson of Domel. Mr G. J. Walker, Portlethen. 



All the other members, with the exception of two, had previously communicated 

 their views in writing. 



From information supplied by the Secretary, the Committee find that the places for 

 holding Shows were fuUy reported on by a Special Committee appointed in 1858. At 

 that time the circuit consisted of seven districts, and the only alteration w^hich that 

 Committee suggested was that Peeblesshire should be disjoined from the Berwick and 

 connected with the Edinburgh district, and that Kelso should be the place of meeting 

 in place of Berwick. The Special Committee appointed in 1 858 concluded its report 

 on the places for holding Shows, by recommending that the then existing arrangements 

 regarding districts be adhered to, subject to the modifications refen-ed to, and with an 

 understanding that extra meetings may he held as opportunities offered in Edinburgh 

 and Glasgow. 



The Committee may here observe that by a resolution of the Board, 4th Febniary 

 1863, the county of Peebles was disjoined irom the Edinbui-gh district and again added 

 to the Kelso district, to which it has since been attached. 



IK. The only other alteration that has taken place since 1858 was in 1862, when a requisi- 

 tion signed by 720 persons connected with the Stirling district, and prajing that the 

 Society's meeting for 1864 should be held at Stirling, was favourably entertained, and a 

 new- or eighth district formed, comprising the coimties of Stirling and Dumbarton 

 (formerly joined with the Glasgow district), and the county of Clackmannan and the 

 western division of Perthshire (formerly included in the Perth district). 



Since that date Shows have been held in regular rotation in each of the eight districts 

 at present visited. The counties embraced in each district, and the order in which the 

 Shows are held, are as follows : — 



1. Kelso, for the counties of Berwick, Roxbiu-gh, Selkii'k, and Peebles. 



2. Stirling, for the counties of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Clackmannan, and the 



western division of Perthshire. 



3. Inverness, for the counties of Inverness, Elgin, Nairn, Eoss and Cromarty, Caith- 



ness, Sutherland, and Orkney, including Shetland. 



4. Glasgoio, for the counties of Lanark, Ayr, Renfrew, Argyll, and Bute. 



5. Aberdeen, for the counties of Aberdeen, Banff, and Kincardine, and eastern 



district of Forfarshire. 



6. Edinburgh, for the counties of Edinburgh, Haddington, and Linlithgow. 



7. Dumfries, for the county of Dimifries, Stewai-try of Kirkcudbright, and county 



of Wigtown. 



8. Perth, for the eastern division of Perthshire, the counties of Fife and Kinross, and 



western division of Forfarshire. 



The Committee find that for some time previous to 1858, it had been suggested 

 that, with railways, it was no longer necessary to hold Shows nt Dumfries, Inverness, 

 or Bei-wick, and that they might even be advantageously restricted to Edinburgh and 

 Glasgow. To this the Special Committee, appointed in 1858, stated the two followiiig 

 objections. 



" First, Although stock and implements could be forwarded by railway to central 

 points, the great mass of the agricultural public in the northern and southern counties 



