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land. Her example was followed in 1805 by the Right 

 Hon. Flora, Countess of Loudoun and IMoira. In 1809, 

 Lady Preston Baird of Ferntower ; in 18 16, the Right 

 Hon. Lady Hood Mackenzie of Seaforth ; and at the July 

 meeting of the same year, Mrs Macleod of Macleod were 

 elected. Mrs Macleod was proposed by Mr (afterwards 

 Sir Walter) Scott, seconded by Mr Henry Mackenzie, and 

 supported by Lord Bannatyne. In 1824, the Right Hon. 

 Lady Gwydir and the Right Hon. Baroness Keith were 

 admitted, and in 1832, Lady IMackenzie of Gairloch. In 

 1834, four noble ladies came forward. These were the 

 Duchesses of Gordon, Argyll, Montrose, and Sutherland. 

 In 1835, Her Grace the present Duchess of Buccleuch was 

 added. In 1838, the Marchioness of Breadalbane ; in 1839, 

 the Hon. Lady Menzies of Menzies ; in 1840, the Countess 

 of Mansfield and the Hon. Lady Abercromby of Birkenbog 

 and Netherlaw ; in 1841, the Right Hon. Lady Glenlyon 

 (now the Duchess Dowager of Athole), and the Right 

 Hon. Lady Anne Mackenzie of Scatwell ; in 1864, Mrs 

 Ferguson Blair of Inchmartine (now the Hon. Mrs Arbuth- 

 nott); and in 1870, Miss (now the Right Hon. Baroness) 

 Burdett Coutts. 



Honorary Members. 



The Society had power, by its Charter of 1787, to 

 elect Honorary or free ]\Iembers, and by the Charter of 

 1834 it has authority to elect twenty Honorary Members 

 resident in the United Kingdom. 



Besides Mr John Knox and Viscount Melville, referred 

 to under Original Members, the Society has during the 

 ninety-five years of its existence elected several Honorary 

 Members. Among these the following may be noticed : 



In 1786, Henry Beaufoy, M.P., Chairman of the Committee of the House 

 of Commons on Fisheries, who distinguished himself as a friend to this countr}'. 



In 1793, the Rev. Dr John Kemp, one of the ministers of Edinburgh, and 

 Secretary of the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, for his laborious 

 investigation in the several tours he made through the Highlands and Islands 

 of Scotland, with the view of promoting the interest of religion and a spirit of 

 industry amongst the inhabitants. 



In 1794, the Rev. Dr John Walker, Professor of Natural History in the 

 University of Edinburgh, was elected, as an additional mark of the Society's 

 approbation of the different Essays given in by him on Agriculture and other 



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