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regarding their employment, or the amount which had been 

 given them. 



A statement of the requirements by Government was 

 submitted to a meeting of enumerators and members of 

 committee, when resolutions, approving of the course fol- 

 lowed by Mr Maxwell, were adopted. The matter was 

 brought before the General Meeting on the I2th January 

 1858, when the Society expressed its entire concurrence 

 with the resolutions adopted by the Directors, and by the 

 meeting of enumerators, and its regret that the Lords of 

 Her Majesty's Treasury should have rendered the disso- 

 lution of the connection between the Society and the 

 Statistical Inquiry unavoidable. 



The statistics have since 1866 been collected through 

 the officers of the Inland Revenue, under the superintend- 

 ence of the Board of Trade. But the information, as 

 furnished b)' Government, is not so full and copious as that 

 previously supplied by the machinery organised by the 

 Highland Society. In particular, the average produce per 

 Imperial acre in each district, and the gross produce per 

 county, are now awanting in the returns. 



No show of breeding stock was held in summer of 

 1853. In January of that year, however, the General 

 Meeting of the Society adopted a report by the Directors, 

 recommending the establishment of winter shows of fat 

 stock. The first show took place at Edinburgh in Decem- 

 ber 1853, the fat stock being exhibited in the Cattle Market 

 on the 1 2th and 13th, and the poultry, dairy produce, and 

 roots and seeds in the Corn Exchange on the 26th and 

 27th of that month. The number of entries was, for cattle, 

 ninety-one; sheep, fifty -three ; pigs, fourteen ; poultry, 171 ; 

 dairy produce, 83 ; roots and seeds, 274. 



At the General Meeting in January 1854, Captain 

 Falconar, who was chairman of a standing committee for 

 these winter shows, reported that while the exhibition had 

 been successful in point of stock, it had been productive of 

 a loss to the Society from want of public support. He 



