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Dalyell, Bart. ; Mr Thomas Grainger of Craig Park ; Mr 

 John Miller of Leithen, late M.P. for the city of Edinburgh ; 

 Mr John Gibson, Woolmet ; Mr James William Hunter 

 of Thurston ; and Mr Thomas Mylne, Niddrie Mains, the 

 present Chairman. 



We may in this connection furnish notices of the Prac- 

 tical and Honorary Engineers to the Society. 



Mr James Slight was in 1832 appointed Curator of 

 the Museum of Models, and held that office till his death in 

 1854. He also acted as Practical Engineer to the Society. 

 On his death being intimated to the Board, it was resolved 

 to put on record the high sense entertained by the Directors 

 of Mr Slight's services during his long connection with the 

 Society. 



After Mr Slight's death, the office was for some time 

 vacant, although the duties were performed by his son, Mr 

 Alexander Slight, whose name was added to the official 

 staff in 1858. He held the appointment till 1873, when he 

 resigned. 



Mr James D. Park was in 1874 elected to the vacant 

 office of Practical Engineer, the former title of Curator of 

 the Museum having been abolished when the Society 

 handed over the models to the Museum of Science and Art 

 in 1865. 



Mr Ja:mes Stirling, C.E., was appointed Consulting 

 Engineer to the Society in 1856, which post he held till 

 1864, when he resigned. 



Professor W. J. Macquorn Rankine was appointed 

 at the General Meeting in January 1865. On his death 

 being intimated to the Directors at their meeting on 8th 

 January 1873, resolutions were unanimously agreed to 

 recording that ' the Directors of the Highland and Agricul- 

 tural Society, before proceeding to the business of the day, 

 deem it incumbent on them to record their deep sense of 

 the severe loss occasioned to the Society by the death of 

 Professor Macquorn Rankine, and to express their high 

 appreciation of his eminent services as honorary consulting 



