2 PEOCEEDIXGS AT BOARD MEETINGS. 



to Mr Joseph Bulloch, Cockniiiir, Spriugbnm, for his bay horse " Zulu." The charge 

 for service to be £2, and grooms's fee 2s. 6d., to be paid at the end of the season, and 

 £2 extra for every foal. The horse to l)e shown at Kelso market on the first Friday in 

 April, and to commence then to travel the district — the counties of Berwick, Roxburgh, 

 Selkirk, and Peebles. The travelling to cease on 10th July, but the horse to remain 

 at Kelso till after the general show— viz., 30th July. 



Stirling Show, 1881.— It was resolved that Galloway cattle at the Stirling Shov\' in 

 1881 must be entered in the Herd-Book, or the exhibitor must produce evidence that 

 his animal is eligilde to be entered therein. 



Death of Mr Scott Plummer axd Mr Hugh Kirkwood. — The following reso- 

 lutions were unanimously adopted : " That the Directors of the Highland and Agricul- 

 tural Society of Scotland desire to express the deep and sincere regret with Avhich they 

 have received the intimation of the death of Mr Charles Scott Plummer of Sunderland 

 Hall, one of their number, and their sense of the obligations which the Society owed to 

 him while acting as a member of the board during the years 1863 to 1867, and from 

 1878 till the period of his death. 



" That the Directors of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland have to 

 record their deep regret at the loss which the Society has sustained by the death of Mr 

 Hugh Kirkwood, Killermont, a member of the board, and their sense of the assistance 

 rendered by him as a judge of stock at the Society's general shows, and the interest he 

 uniformly took in the general affairs of the Society. 



" That the Directors request the Secretary to transmit a copy of these resolutions to 

 Mr Charles Henry Scott Plummer and Mrs Hugh Kirkwood respectively, with their 

 respectful condolence and sympathy upon the occasion of the painful bereavement 

 which they and their families have sustained." 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 7th APRIL 1880. 



Present. — Mr Dickson of Corstorphine ; Mr Dingwall, Ramornie ; Mr Scott Dud- 

 geon, Longnewton ; Mr Hog of Newliston ; Mr Hope, Duddingston ; Mr Murray of 

 DoUerie ; Mr Mylne, Niddrie Mains ; Mr Ritchie of Middleton ; Mr Smith, "SVhitting- 

 hame ; Professor Wilson ; Dr Aitken — Mr Hog of Newliston in the chair. 



Mr F. N. Menzies reported apologies for the absence of Sir George D. Clerk of 

 Penicuik, Bart. ; Mr Irvine of Drum ; Mr Kennedy (of Sundaywell), Brandleys ; Mr 

 Eliott Lockhart of Borthwickbrae ; Mr Smith, Stevenson Mains ; Mr John Turnbull 

 Smith, C.A. 



The Late Mr Hugh Kirkwood. — A letter was read from Mrs Kirkwood, Killer- 

 mont, expressing her deep sense of gratitude to the Directors for their sympathy with 

 her in her sudden and great bereavement. 



Argyll Naval Fund. — On the recommendation of the Committee in charge of the 

 Argyll Naval Fund, a fifth naval cadet (Mr Louis Wentworth Chetwynd) was added to 

 the list of recipients. 



Agricultural Education. — The reports of the Agricultural and Forestry examina- 

 tions were submitted, from which it appeared that the ■s\Titten examinations were held 

 on the 29th and 30th, and the oral examinations on the 31st March, and resulted in 

 two candidates passing for the diploma, four for first and four for second class certifi- 

 cates in agriculture ; two for first and one for second class certificates in forestry. The 

 two prizes of £6 and £4, given by the Society in books to the class of agriculture in the 

 University of Edinburgh, were also annoimced to have been awarded after special 

 examination. 



Veterinary Department.— It was reported that the examinations for the Society's 

 veterinary certificate took place on the 5th, 6th, and 7th instant, and resulted in twelve 

 out of twenty passing. The preliminary examination of younger students was held at 

 the same time, when twenty-six entered their names and twenty-five passed. 



Kelso Show 1880. — Letters to the conveners of the counties connected with show- 

 Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Peebles — and to the chief magistrate of Kelso, in 

 regard to the nomination of the local committee, were submitted and approved of. 



Stirling Show 1881. — The board approved of letters being addressed to the con- 

 veners of the counties embraced in the aistrict of the show — Stirling, Dumbarton, and 

 Clackmannan, and the western division of Perthshire — anent the auxiliary subscription. 

 Case of the Queen against Hopkins. — A circular was submitted from Mr H. J. 

 Hine, secretary of the Shorthorn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, sending an 

 extract from the minutes of a meeting of the council, held on the 2d March, in which 

 was embodied a report of the case against Hopkins, who was tiled before the Lord 

 Chief-Justice for receiving money under false pretences. The prosecution was con- 



