5o8 HIGHLAND and agricultural society. 



Meteorological Society, and very few indeed know the 

 amount of time, labour, and expense he devoted to the 

 promotion of meteorological science. 



The noble Marquis died at Yester House on loth 

 October 1876. At the meeting of the Directors on ist 

 November following, there was recorded in the minutes an 

 expression of the loss the Society and the nation had sus- 

 tained by the ' death of one who had been for sixty-eight 

 years connected with the Societ}-, and who had rendered so 

 many eminent services to his country, both as a soldier and 

 an agriculturist.' 



In 1877, Arthur, ninth Marquis of Tweeddale, proposed 

 to place a sum of money in the hands of the Society, for 

 the purpose of establishing a prize to be given at the 

 Society's general shows, as a memorial of his father. The 

 Directors minuted their cordial acceptance- of the offer ; 

 and it was afterwards arranged that the prize should be a 

 handsome gold medal of the value of twenty guineas, to be 

 given for the best Shorthorn bull or Leicester tup in the 

 yard. In the same year, the Society, in consideration of 

 Lord Tweeddale's life-long connection with it, subscribed 

 one hundred guineas in aid of a memorial proposed to be 

 erected to commemorate the eminent public services of his 

 Lordship. 



19/// President, 1873- 1876. 



His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, 

 K.G., was elected on 15th January 1873. His Royal High- 

 ness was born 9th November 1841. 



The Marquis of Lothian, in proposing the Prince of 

 Wales as President, said that the next business was the 

 election of office-bearers for the present year ; but as his 

 Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had consented to be 

 the President of the Society for this year, he thought they 

 should elect him separately. He did not think that his 

 Royal Highness would have a very easy task if he wished 

 to outstrip the two Presidents before him — the Duke of 

 Buccleuch and the Marquis of Tweeddale — but he felt sure 

 that the Prince would make an excellent President, not only 

 on account of his social position, but also in his private 



