4 PROCEEDINGS AT BOARD MEETINGS. 



country, and the interference to trade caused by the restrictions which its presence 

 necessitates, th« Prime Minister be asked to receive a deputation from the Societj" 

 for the purpose of urging upon the Government the necessity of taking immediate 

 steps to carry into effect the recommendations of the Royal Commission on 

 Agriculture — ' that the landing of foreign live animals should not be permitted in 

 future from any countries as to which the Privy Council are not satisfied that they are 

 perfectly free from any contagious disease.' " 



Three members of the Board were selected to go to London ; and the Secretary was 

 instructed to communicate with the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, K.G.. the 

 President of the Society, and to arrange a deputation of members in London. 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 2sd MAY 1883. 



Present — Sir Henry J. Seton Steuart, Bart. ; Mr Cunningham, Tarbreoch ; Mr 

 Dudgeon, Easter Dalraeny ; Mr Scott Dudgeon, Longnewton ; Mr Easson, Scones 

 Lethendy : Mr Elliot, Blackhaugh ; Mr Farquharson of Hanghton : Mr Forman, 

 Duncrahill ; Rev, John Gillespie, Mouswald ; Colonel Gillon of Wallhouse ; Colonel 

 Hare of Calder Hall ; Mr Hope, East Barns ; Mr M'Queen of Crofts ; Mr Nicoll, 

 Littleton ; Mr Paterson, Plean Farm ; Mr Shaw, Skaithmuir ; Mr Smith, Stevenson 

 Mains ; Mr Villiers, Closeburn Hall ; Professor Wilson ; and Dr Aitken. — Mr 

 Cunningham in the chair. 



Mr F. N. Menzies reported apologies for the absence of Sir W. C. Anstruther^ 

 Bart. ; Sir Geo. Macpherson Grant, Bart., M.P. ; Mr Balfour of Balbirnie ; Mr 

 Johnstone Douglas of Lockerbie ; Mr Forbes of Culloden ; Mr Beudersou of Stemster ; 

 Mr Irvine of Drum ; Mr Eliott Lockhart of Borthwickbrae ; Mr Mackenzie of Port- 

 more ; Mr Martin of Auchendeunan ; Mr Pott of Dod ; Mr Scott, Glendronach ; Mr 

 John Turnbull Smith, C.A. ; and j\Tr Walker, Portlethen. 



Importation of Foreign Animals. — The Secretary reported that, according to 

 previous arrangement. Lord Carlingford had received a deputation from the Society on 

 Wednesday the 25th of April, at the Privy Council Office, on the subject of the 

 importation of foreign live animals. The deputation, which was headed by the Duke 

 of Richmond and Gordon, K.G., consisted of the Earl of Stair ; the Earl of Kintore ; 

 the Earl of Galloway ; Lord Balfour of Burleigh ; Sir James Gibson-Craig ; Sir 

 Thomas Gladstone ; Sir G. Macpherson Grant, M.P. ; Sir Kenneth Mackenzie ; Sir G. 

 Graham Montgomery; Sir James R. Gibson Maitland; Mr Scott Dudgeon, Longnewton* 

 Mr Elliot, Blackhaugh ; Mr F. E. Villiers, Closeburn Hall; and Mr F. N. Menzies^ 

 Secretary of the Society. The Duke of Richmond, followed by Sir James Gitson- 

 Craig, Sir George Macpherson Grant, Mr Scott Dudgeon, and Mr Elliot, stated 

 the case for the Society, which was to urge the necessity of taking immediate steps to 

 carry into effect the recommendation of the Royal Commission On Agriculture— 

 " That the landing of foreign live animals should not be permitted in future from any 

 countries as to which the Privy Council are not satisfied that they are perfectly free 

 from any contagious disease." The substance of Lord Carlingford's reply was that, so 

 far as in their power, they would work up to the provisions of the Act of 1878 ; but 

 what the Highland Society asked was practically a request for the prohibition of the 

 landing of live stock, which was not within the powers of the Privy Council. 



Proposed Forestry Exhibition in Edinburgh. — On a letter being read from Mr 

 Hutchison of Carlowrie, asking the Directors to name a committee of their number to 

 ioin the Provisional Committee in carrying out the object of the proposed International 

 Forestry Exhibition to be held at Edinburgh in 1884, the Directors nominated a 

 committee, and subscribed £100 towards the guarantee fund. 



In his letter Mr Hutchison explains that the objects intended by holding such an 

 exhibition are not only to stimulate a deeper interest in scientific forestry in the 

 public mind, and to illustrate the importance and value of woods to a country, but 

 also to aid the movement to supply what is now an acknowledged national want, viz., 

 a school of forestry in Scotland. Edinburgh is pre-eminently well equipped for such 

 a school by the teaching of the professors of agriculture, botany, chemistry, engineer- 

 ing, and surveying, and only lacks some method of clinical instruction to utilise the 

 Botanic Garden and Arboretum. 



State of Forestry in Britain. — The following resolution was unanimously 

 adopted : — That the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, as representing 

 the nobility, landed proprietors, and all who are interested in the management of 

 landed property in Scotland, have learned with much satisfaction that the state of 

 forestry m Britain is to be brought under the notice of Parliament. The Society was 

 instituted hi 1784, and incorporated by royal charter in 1787, and its exertions have 

 for the "reater part of a century been specially directed to the advancement of 

 practical^forestry by means of prizes for essays and reports on the management and 



