14 HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



FAOR 



CHAPTER LV. 



THE FARM LABOURER — COTTAGES AND GARDENS. 

 Prize Essays on Condition of Farm Labourers — Parish prizes for Best Kept 

 Cottages — Premiums for dexterity in use of the Spade — Present system of 

 premiums — Medals to Proprietors who provide Improved Accommodation 

 for Farm Servants — Chairmen of Committee on Cottages — Premiums for 

 Green Crops on Small Possessions and Hill Farms — Bee Husbandry . . 465 



CHAPTER LVI. 



MUSEUM — MACHINERY — ENGINEERS. 

 Collection of Models — Becomes so valuable that it is resolved to Build 

 Museum on George IV. Bridge — Description of Building and Collection — 

 Partial Destruction of Collection by Fire — Establishment of Industrial 

 Museum — Collection of Models transferred to it — The Society Offices 

 transferred from Albyn Place to the Museum Buildings — Chairmen of 

 Museum Committee — The Conservator and other Offices — Premiums for 

 Machinery — Engineers to the Society 470 



CHAPTER LVII. 



ARGYLL FUND — ORDNANCE SURVEY. 

 Argyll Fund: — Origin and Objects — Allowances to Cadets — Amount of 

 Fund — Rules — Conveners of the Fund. Ordnaiue Su7~vey : — Commence- 

 ment of Survey — Interruptions — Efforts to obtain a Six-inch Map — Petition 

 to Parliament — Appeals to the Treasury- in successive years — Deputation to 

 the Board of Works — Standing Committee 475 



CHAPTER LVHI. 



ADDRESSES TO THE THRONE. 

 Special regard showTi to the Society in Royal Charters, Grants from 

 Parliament, and Acts of Royal Favour — Addresses of Loyalty to George 

 III., to the Prince Regent, George IV., William IV., Queen Victoria, 

 Prince Consort, Prince and Princess of Wales, <S:c. ..... 479 



CHAPTER LIX. 



PIPING COMPETITIONS. 



Society acts for the Highland Society of London in superintending Piping 

 Competitions — Abortive Meeting at Falkirk — First Meeting at Edinburgh 

 in 1784 — Mode of Conducting the Trial — Awards of Prizes — Speech by 

 Sir John Sinclair in 1822 — Antiquity of Bagpipe — Speech by Lord 

 Strathaven in 1824 — Gift of Plate to Mrs Henry Siddons — Speech by the 

 Earl of Fife in 1825 — Speech by Duke of Gordon in 1826 — Speech by Sir 

 John Sinclair in 1832 — Chille Galium danced for first time in public in 

 Edinburgh since 1633 — Address in 1835 by Mr Macdonald of Staffa — 

 Presentation of Plate to Mr Murray of the Theatre Royal — Address in 

 1838 by Cluny Macpherson — Sixty Competitors in 1841 — Last Competition 

 in 1844 481 



