20 CERTIFICATES IX rOEESTEY. 



or other entrances. 6. The diflferent implements and tools used in planting, 

 pruning, felling, barking, and working up timber trees, or prepairing them for 

 sale. Ewart's " Agricultural Assistant," Blackie & Son, Glasgow and Edin- 

 burgh, price 3s. 6d. Strachan's " Agricultural Tables," Oliver & Boyd, 

 Edinburgh, price 2s. 6d. 



v.— BOOK-KEEPING AND ACCOUNTS. 



1. Questions in practice and proportion. 2. Book-keeping — describe books 

 to be kept ; give examples. Taking of stock. 



The following have passed for First-Class Certificate : — 



1. C. F. Bligh, England,'^ .... 



2. George Young Wall, M.R.A.C.', Durham, 



3. William Baillie, Forester, Whitingham, East Lothian, 



4. William Robertson, Forester's House, Lauder, 



5. Peter Loney, Marchmont, Dunse, . 



^ Names of those deceased, so far as known, are jmnted in italics. 



1870 

 1870 

 1871 

 1871 

 1873 



CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT. 



The object of the Chemical Dej)artment is to arrange Experiments to be 

 conducted at the Society's Agricultural Stations, in terms of the Report of 

 the General Meeting, I7th January 1877. See Appendix A, p. 19. 



Chemist. — Dr Andrew P. Aitken, — Highland and Agricultural Society's 

 Chambers, No. 3 George IV. Bridge, Edinburgh, who will be in attendance 

 there on Wednesdays from 12 to 2, and daily at the Laboratory, Veterinary 

 College, Clyde Street, where samples for analysis should be sent. 



