PRINCIPAL OR HONORARY SECRETARIES. 515 



obliged to resign, being then resident in Argyllshire, of 

 which extensive county he was Sheriff. On this occasion, 

 the cordial thanks of the Society were voted to Mr Mac- 

 lachlan for the zeal and ability with which he discharged 

 the duties for the considerable period he held the situation 

 of Principal Secretary. He died at Edinburgh nth No- 

 vember 1 8 17. 



III. Sir Reginald Macdonald Seton Steuart, 

 Bart. — Reginald Macdonald of Staffa, Advocate, Sheriff of 

 Stirlingshire, was unanimously elected Principal Secretary 

 of the Society at the General Meeting on 12th January 

 1813. In 1835, Mr Macdonald assumed the additional 

 name of Seton ; and on the death of Sir Henry Steuart 

 in 1836, he succeeded to the baronetcy by the name 

 and title of Sir Reginald Macdonald Steuart Seton of 

 Staffa, Allanton, and Touch, Bart. He died in 1838, 

 while holding the office of Honorary Secretary (so named 

 by the charter of 1834), and to his memory and zeal for 

 the Society's interests the Duke of Montrose paid a just 

 tribute. On his death being intimated to them, the 

 Directors were unanimously of opinion that they should, 

 on the part of the Society, mark the sense entertained of 

 the zealous services of Sir Reginald for twenty-five years, 

 and they therefore resolved (after having ascertained from 

 Lady Macdonald Steuart Seton that any mark of respect 

 which the Directors might see fit to manifest, would be 

 very gratefully received), to nominate a deputation of their 

 number to attend his funeral. The deputation assembled 

 at the Society's Hall, Albyn Place, and proceeded in five 

 private carriages to the house occupied by Sir Reginald in 

 Rutland Street, and attended his remains to the place of 

 interment in Greyfriars Churchyard. 



IV. Sir Neil Menzies of Menzies, Bart., was elected 

 at the General Meeting held on 9th July 1838. He was 

 proposed by Sir John Stuart Forbes, who, in doing so, 

 observed that Sir Neil's territorial possessions, which con- 

 nected him at once with the Highlands and one of the most 

 highly cultivated districts of the south of Scotland, the 

 great interest he had always taken in promoting the various 



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