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ducted by the Birmingham Agricultural Exhibition Society. Hopkins exhibited at 

 the show of tlie said society in March 1875 a bull called Grand Patriot Second, and he 

 represented that it was a pure-bred shorthorn bull, and certified that it had a pedigree 

 of five crosses. The bull gained a prize of £20. It was afterwards discovered that the 

 bull was not pure-bred, and that the pedigree was fabricated by Hopkins, and the 

 charge in the indictment was for fabrication of this false pedigree and receiving the 

 prize of £20 awarded on the faith of that pedigree. Hopkins was found guilty, with a 

 recommendation to mercy, and the Lord Chief-Justice sentenced him to imprisonment-, 

 with hard labour, for three calendar months. 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 5th MAY 1S80. 



Present. — Sir James R. Gibson-Maitland of Clifton Hall, Bart. ; Professor Balfour ; 

 Mr Scott Dudgeon, Longnewton ; Mr Forman, Duncrahill ; Mr Hog of Newliston ; 

 Mr Kennedy (of Sundaywell), Brandleys ; Mr John Ord Mackenzie of Dolphinton ; 

 Mr Murray of Dollerie ; Mr Mylne, Niddrie Mains ; Mr Smith, Stevenson Mains ; Mr 

 Smith, Whittinghame ; Mr Williamson of Lawers ; Professor Wilson ; Dr Aitken — 

 Mr Smith, Stevenson Mains, in the chair. 



Mr F. N. Menzies reported apologies for the absenceof the [Marquis of Lothian, K.T., 

 president ; Lord Polwarth ; Sir George D. Clerk of Penicuik, Bart. ; Mr Cunningham, 

 Tarbreoch ; Mr Dickson of Corstorphine ; Mr Dingwall, Ramornie ; Mr Hope, Dud- 

 dingston ; Mr Irvine of Drum ; Mr Eliott Lockhart of Borthwickbrae ; Mr Ralston, 

 Glamis House ; Mr Ritchie of Middleton ; Mr John Turnbull Smith, C. A, ; Mr Smith, 

 chief magistrate, Kelso ; and Mr Walker of Rowland, C.B. 



The Late Mr M'Dougal, Granton Mains. — Before proceeding to the business on 

 the programme, the Directors resolved to record in their minutes the deep regret with 

 which they had received the intimation of the death of Mr Alexander M'Dougal, 

 Granton Mains, Edinburgh, and their sense of the assistance which the Society had 

 received from him as a Director and member of the Veterinary Committee ; and 

 instructed the Secretary to send a copy of the resolution to Mr M'Dougal's relatives. 



Date of Calving of Galloway Cattle. — At the request of the Galloway Cattle 

 Society, the Directors agreed that the date of calving of Galloway cattle exhibited at 

 the Society's general and district shows should be as from on and after the 1st of 

 January. 



GxVELic Society of Perth. — A letter was submitted from Mr Alexander Fraser, 

 Perth, intimating that a Gaelic Society had been formed in Perth, and sending a copy 

 of the constitution and rules of the association, which has for its object the moral and 

 intellectual improvement of the members and the cultivation of the Gaelic language. 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 2d June 1880. 



Present. — Lord Arthur Cecil ; Hon. Henry Constable Maxwell Stuart of Traquair ; 

 Sir James R. Gibson-Maitland of Clifton Hall, Bart. ; Mr Cunningham, Tarbreoch ; Mr 

 Dickson of Corstorphine ; Mr Dingwall, Ramornie ; Mr Scott Dudgeon, Longnewton ; 

 Mr Harris, Earnhill ; Mr Irvine of Drum ; Mr Eliott Lockhart of Borthwickbrae; Mr 

 Mylne, Niddrie Mains ; Mr Smith, chief magistrate, Kelso ; Mr Smith, Stevenson 

 Mains ; Mr Smith, Wliittinghame ; Mr Campbell Swiiiton of Kimmerghame ; Dr 

 Aitken — Mr Smith, Stevenson Mains, in the chair. 



Mr F. N. Menzies reported apologies for the absence of the Earl of Haddington; 

 Lord Polwarth ; Sir George D. Clerk of Penicuik. Bart. ; Mr Gillon of Wallhouse ; Mr 

 Hope, Duddiiigston ; Mr Kennedy (of Sundaywell), Brandleys; Mr Ralston, Glam;.s 

 House ; Mr John Turnbull Smith, C.A. ; Mr WWker of Bowland, C.B. ; and Professor 

 Wilson. 



Date of Calving of Ayrshire Cattle.— On a letter being read from the Hon 

 G. R. Vernon, Auchens House, Kilmarnock, the comi)iler of the Ayrshire Herd-Book, 

 the 1)oard resolved that the date of calculating the birth of Ayrshire cattle exhibited at 

 tlie Society's general and district shows should be as from on and after the 1st of 

 January. 



Finance.— The following notice of motion by the Hon. George Waldegrave Leslie 

 for the general meeting on the IGth of Juiie was read :—" That, considering the very 

 large amount of capital accumulated and still accumulating in the hands of the 

 treasurer of the Highland Society, it is desirable that more money should be annually 



