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tionary, in two volumes of 776 and 1,015 pages each, 

 was officially announced by the lips of another. 



With the new century the Society extended its care 

 in a measure to the Lowlands, and laid great stress 

 on essays and reports. In 1824, its original hundred 

 members had swelled to 1,461, and when the jubilee 

 dinner was held in ^34, with the Duke of Buccleuch, 

 who was then President, in the chair, they numbered 

 1,900. The Duke of Wellington had been made an 

 honorary member, and wrote his thanks from Cam- 

 bray in the spring of ^16, and a letter in acknowledg- 

 ment of the same honour was received from Marshal 

 Blucher at Carlsbad the next July. Sir Walter 

 Scott took no very active part in its proceedings, and 

 the last mention that we find of his name was at a 

 half-yearly meeting in 1824, when he proposed that 

 the ballot should be dispensed with in the case of 

 Lady Gwydir and Baroness Keith. Eifty years had 

 reduced the original members to four on the day of 

 the jubilee — the Earl of Glasgow (who survived them 

 all). Sir William M'Leod of Bannatyne, Sir John 

 Sinclair of Uibster, and General Campbell of Lochnell. 

 They were all there to support the Duke, and were 

 welcomed with the old, favourite strain of " Owre the 

 muir amang the heather J^ 



New ones sprung up as they went down ; and be- 

 teen ^45 and ^65, which represents the secretaryship 

 of Mr. Hall Maxwell, the numbers have increased 

 from 2,569 to 4,055. Independently of the national 

 feeling, which makes every young farmer anxious t o 



