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quite an oration, or rather a resume of the year, and 

 concluded with special eulogium on those who 'have 

 died since our last anniversary.' Not infrequently 

 he killed one or two before their time, perhaps more 

 from a little dry humor than by mistake; and then 

 he begged their pardon and said, 'it didn't matter 

 much.' For some time before his death he had suf- 

 fered slightly from paralysis; but a kick from a pony 

 produced a crisis, and two days after, when they 

 went to awake him on the May morning of '54, he 

 was found dead in bed. He lies in the cemetery of 

 Ury, about a mile from his old home^ the trainer of 

 pugilists with the gentle apologist for the Quakers 

 and his claim to the earldom of Airth and Monteith 

 seemed to die out with him." 



Let us hope that in due course of time HUGH 

 WATSON and WILLIAM McGoMBiE will find their proper 

 places in the inner circle of the Club alongside 

 BARCLAY and AMOS GRUICKSHANK. It must be borne 

 in mind that there was a native race of polled 

 cattle in Angus, Aberdeen and contiguous counties 

 long before BARCLAY introduced the Shorthorn, 

 HUGH WATSON of Forfarshire was the man who had 

 done most to develop the doddie type within itself, 

 and his success with the blacks was commensurate 

 with that of the GOLLINGS with the Shorthorns. He 

 commenced at Keillor in 1809, and never deserted 

 the type to the date of his death. He was on 



