24 PKOCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS. 



Jlr Robert Wilson, 38 St John Street, Perth ; and Mrs Johnstone, Fountain Caf(% 

 Dumfries, will have the temperance tent. The headquarters of the Society will be 

 at the Salutation Hotel. Tickets for the Show will in due time be sent to all 

 members of the Society residing in the United Kingdom. 



Mr Matthews, Newton-Stewart, remarked that owners could, with every 

 confidence, bring forward their stock to Perth Show. There was a direct road from 

 the railway to the Perth Show road, and no cattle could be admitted from an infected 

 area. Consequently there could be no fear of stock being brought into contact with 

 infected cattle. 



The Rev. John Gillespie said it should be made public that one month before the 

 Show was held, all cows would be removed from the South Inch at Perth. Therefore 

 stock being taken to the Showyard would go on the railway to a special siding, 

 where they would not come in contact with any place where cattle had i)reviously 

 been, but when they arrived at the Showyard they would reach a place absolutely 

 clean, an<l where no cattle had been for a month before. 



The reports were approved. 



Glasgow Show, 1888. 



Colonel Gillon also reported that the preparatory arrangements for the general 

 Show to be held at Glasgow in 1888 had been made ; and that the support given to 

 the Society on former occasions by the Lord Provost and authorities of the city of 

 Glasgow, and by the counties of Lanark, Ayr, and Renfrew, would be repeated. 



Agricultural Education. 

 The Rev. John Gillespie, in the absence of Mr Mackenzie of Portmore, reported 

 that arrangements had been matured for a deputation going to London to wait 

 on the heads of various departments of the Government, with the view of asking a 

 liberal subsidy for the furtherance of higher agricultural education in Scotland, but 

 unfortunately there had been a change in the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, 

 and Mr Goschen — for very good reasons, he had no doubt — had said he could not 

 receive a deputation until the Budget had been disposed of. As they knew, the 

 Budget had not yet been entirely disposed of, and practically the deputation had 

 been able to do nothing, from circumstances over which neither they nor the 

 Board had any control whatever. They extremely regretted the delay, but could 

 not possibly help it. He might say generally that the object was to ask the 

 Government as far as j)ossible to give grants in aid of the whole of Scotland for 

 the promotion of higher agricultural education ; that wherever districts could raise 

 a sufficient sum locally they should be subsidised to some extent by an imperial grant ; 

 also, and more especially, as a step in advance, that a strong staff should be connected 

 with the Agricultural Chair in the University of Edinburgh ; that grants should be 

 got for lectures on agricultural chemistry and botany as applied to agriculture ; and 

 that, if possible, an experimental farm, or, at all events, an agricultural experi- 

 mental station, should be started where investigations could be carried on to solve 

 questions in agriculture, and to give jiractical training for students attending classes. 

 in Edinburgh. The deputation, as he had said, regretted the delay that had taken 

 place, but would avail themselves of the first opportunity to prosecute the object they 

 had in view. Mr Gillesj)ie further reported that the annual examination of 

 candidates for the diploma and certificates in agriculture took place on the 28th, 

 29tli, and 30th March, when 21 gentlemen presented themselves, and that the 

 following iiassed : — For Diploma — Nogendro Nath Banerjee, Calcutta ; George 

 Carrington, M.R.A.C., Missenden Abbey, Great Missenden ; Harry Reid Maitland, 

 Muiryfold, Grange, Keith ; Daniel Steele, Merkland, New Cumnock ; Edward 

 Smith Davies, Claverley, Bridgenorth ; Andrew T. L. Dunlop, Morriston, Maybole ; 

 Robert Haig, DoUarfield, Dollar ; AVilliam Somerville, 46 Findhorn Place, Edin- 

 burgh. For First-class Certificate — Alfred Henry Inman, Muirpark, Eskbank, 

 Dalkeith ; Khosheroo B. Jadhava, Baroda, Bombay ; Walter Frank Perkins, Ports- 

 wood House, Southampton ; Pandit Srilal Misra, Mahaban, Dist. Muthra, N.W.P., 

 India. For Second-class Certificate — John Barker, Cockden, Briercliffe, Burnley; 

 Christopher Drieberg, Colombo, Ceylon ; Patrick Ritchie Murrison, Forfarshire ; 

 Charles T. A. Robertson, Kenworth Lodge, Merchiston, Edinburgh ; Robert Gordon, 

 Gordonston, Clatt, Kennethmont ; James Kerr, Mid Kelton, Castle-Douglas. The 

 prizes to the class of agriculture in the Edinburgh University were awarded to — 1, 

 J. R. C. Smith, Mowhaugh, Kelso ; 2, Daniel Steele, Merkland, New Cumnock. 



Forestry Department. 



Sir Robert Menzies, Bart., said that the Directors had come to be of opinion that 

 there should be a standing committee to manage the Forestry Department, and 

 that it be requested to arrange the nature and extent of the examinations for the 



