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made a good show, but the greater part of the strength of the 
breed was in the female Classes. Mr. M'Combie's First Prize 
cow, " Pride of Aberdeen," was one of the wonders of the Show, 
with a remarkable family-history. She was fourth in descent 
from " Black Meg,'' the foundress of a very celebrated tribe, 
comprising many of the most distinguished winners. One of 
" Meg's " daughters was " Queen of Ardovie," whose daughter, 
" Queen jMother," purchased by Mr. M'Combie at Mr. Fullerton's 
sale about forty-five years ago for the sum of 12L 10s., was a prize- 
winner up to the age of fourteen years. She, in turn, became the 
dam of " Lola Montes," a well-known Royal Northern winner, 
and " Lola Montes " gave birth to " Charlotte," a Paris prize- 
winner, 1856, dam of "Pride of Aberdeen," more than once 
first at the Highland Society's Shows. At Battersea, " Charlotte " 
and " Pride of Aberdeen," mother and daughter, were rivals in 
the ring, and bore away the leading honours, the daughter first, 
the dam second in the same Class. In the Class of two-year-old 
bulls Mr. Farquharson's " Garibaldi," bred by Mr. M'Combie from 
*' Pride of Aberdeen," and in the Yearling Class a full brother, 
" Rifleman," exhibited by Mr. M'Combie, were respectively 
second and first. Mr. M'Combie's entries gained other prizes, 
and one prize went to an Irish breeder of Scotch Polls. Three 
Highland premier bulls competed, and in the prize-list Mr. 
Lyall's " Prospero " and " Tom Pipes " were separated by 
" Druid," bred and exhibited by the Earl of Southesk. 
In special Classes at Newcastle, 1864, for "Scotch Polls, 
except Galloways," " Charlotte," in her fourteenth year, and the 
mother of nearly as many calves as she was years old, again 
stood beside " Pride of Aberdeen " in the judging-ring, and again 
won Second to her daughter's First Prize. The daughter in- 
herited her mother's extraordinary fecundity. 
Five years later, there were Classes at Manchester ; ten years 
later still, at the Kilburn International Show ; in 1880 at Carlisle, 
and 1883 York, all for "Angus or Aberdeen" cattle; in 1885, 
at Preston, for " Aberdeen or Angus " (the name reversed), and 
in 1887, at Newcastle, " Aberdeen- Angus " cattle, a name which 
was then for the first time, and is this year again, used by the 
Society. 
We have thus traced when and where special Classes were 
given, and the various names by which the breed at different 
periods of its history has been recognised by the Society, In 
many of the years when there were no special Classes for this 
breed, good and sometimes famous animals won in the mixed 
Classes ; and sometimes, even in early years, prizes were won 
by specimens in the hands of English exhibitors 
