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into that county of the whitefaced, or Cheviot breed of 

 sheep, upon an extensive scale, to his own advantage and 

 that of others in that district. A similar medal was at the 

 same time awarded to the Rev. Mr Gardiner, minister of 

 Tweedsmuir, for drawing up and submitting to the Society 

 the account of Mr Laidlaw's improvements. 



In 181 3, a gold medal was voted to Captain G. W. 

 Manby for his ingenuity, zeal, and perseverance in pro- 

 secuting a plan for rendering assistance to persons ship- 

 wrecked near the shore. Captain ]\Ianby's plan and 

 apparatus w^ere examined, and reported on by a Committee 

 of the Societ}'. In 1818, a gold medal was voted to James 

 Grant of Corrymony, advocate, as a mark of the Society's 

 approbation of his treatise on the 'Origin and Descent of the 

 Gael.' In the same year, John Mackenzie, Richmond 

 Place, Edinburgh, had a piece of plate, of the value of 

 twenty guineas, voted for information communicated by 

 him to the Society on the subject of the herring fishery. 



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