100 FIELD AND lERX. 



and bere^ Clackmannanshire for beans and peas, 

 and Roxburgh sli ire for turnips. 



Aberdeenshire leads in horses, calves, and other 

 cattle, but Aj^rshire beats it in cows ; and in the cattle 

 total it is a sharp thing between Ayrshire and Perth- 

 shire. Both in the sheep total, as well as in sheep for 

 breeding and feeding, the order of Argyleshire, In- 

 verness-shire, and Perthshire is maintained; but 

 Dumfriesshire, which is fourth as regards the two 

 first, resigns its place to Koss-shire, and comes very 

 low in the last. In lambs, Argyllshire is still ahead, 

 but Dumfriesshire gets the better both of Roxburgh- 

 shire, Perthshire, and Inverness-shire, and beats 

 every county, save Ayrshire, clean out of the field 

 for pigs. Sutherlandshire is tenth in the sheep total, 

 but in sheep for feeding it stands fifth. 



Having thus investigated the earlier history 

 of the Society, we refreshed ourselves with a stroll 

 through the Museum and the Council Chamber. 

 The old museum was once a little room at the 

 bottom of the Secretary's garden in Albyn-place, but 

 this very different building arose in 1840 in the 

 old town, and combines in itself a museum, a 

 council-chamber, and committee-rooms. The first 

 picture that Ave read of, in our ransacking the So- 

 ciety's files, was presented by the present Mr. Ram- 

 say of Barnton's grandfather, but we could not iden- 

 tify it in the collection. In the committee-room, 

 where we worked for four days (with occasional visit- 

 ors in the shape of Mr. Gourlay Steell, Mr. Duncan, 



