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Archival Summaries |
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| ROYAL
HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND The Society was founded in 1784 to promote agricultural interests and education and also the study of the Gaelic language and Scottish music and poetry. The archives detail the functions and interests of the Society since its inception, particularly the running of its Shows and competitions. Amongst these, of particular interest are the records relating to the Island of St Kilda, the publication of a Gaelic dictionary and the early years of the project to compile agricultural statistics. There are essays on geological and mineralogical subjects as well as more obviously agricultural matters. Besides the manuscript collections, the Society has an extensive library and a large and important collection of pamphlets from an early period, many of them very rare. The Society's holdings have been surveyed by the National Register of Archives for Scotland (survey number NRAS2711). The sederunt books of the Society have been microfilmed and a copy is available in the West Search Room of the National Archives of Scotland (reference RH4/188). |
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| HISTORY AND ADMINISTRATION | |||
| Great Seal charters of incorporation and supplementary charters | 1787-1978 | ||
| Matriculation of arms | 1951 | ||
| Legal papers including incorporation of funds from forfeited estates in 1789 | 1700s, 1800s | ||
| Reports and premium certificates | 1785-1831 | ||
| Writs of Old Assembly Hall, Stevenlaw’s Close, Edinburgh | 1620-1813 | ||
| Correspondence, legal papers re purchase of hall in Albyn Place | 1826-1827 | ||
| Estimates for furnishing of hall in Albyn Place | 1824 | ||
| Legal correspondence | 1886-1911 | ||
| Sederunt books of Director’s meetings | 1784-1945 | ||
| Index to sederunt books | 1921-1926 | ||
| Draft minutes | 1848-1928 | ||
| Printed minutes | 1884-1905 | ||
| Shorthand reports of meetings | 1886-1939 | ||
| Agenda and resolutions of Director’s meetings | 1917-1920 | ||
| Minutes of meetings | 1951-1967 | ||
| Lists of members | 1952-1967 | ||
| Voting papers | 1980-1984 | ||
| Applications for long service awards | 1913- | ||
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| ACCOUNTS | |||
| Printed abstract Show accounts | 1843-1911 | ||
| Show accounts | 1859-1920, 1948-1949 | ||
| Show cashbooks | 1872-1955 | ||
| Papers re loans secured over land, including rentals | 1893-1895 | ||
| Financial correspondence | 1905-1912 | ||
| Scroll cash book (Shows) | 1914-1949 | ||
| Petty cash account | 1928-1934 | ||
| Payment cash books re agricultural statistics | 1931-1959 | ||
| Receipt cash books re agricultural statistics | 1931-1962 | ||
| Petty cash books | 1933-1962 | ||
| Vouchers | 1956-1967 | ||
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| SHOWS AND COMPETITIONS | |||
| Abstract of premiums offered | 1784-1925 | ||
| Minutes of committee on piping competition | 1824-1844 | ||
| Account and plan of Cattle Show and Agricultural Meeting at Glasgow | 1828 | ||
| Memorandum book including details of prize medals | 1838-1847 | ||
| Show catalogues | 1842-1860 | ||
| Show awards record | 1843-1939 | ||
| Lists of exhibitors at Shows | 1856-1871 | ||
| Stock lists and implement catalogues at Shows | 1857-1934 | ||
| District competition letter book | 1858-1885 | ||
| Cottage garden competitions | 1858-1890 | ||
| District competition records | 1858-1929 | ||
| Awards at general Shows | 1859-1869 | ||
| Stock exhibitors | 1871-1948 | ||
| Implement exhibitors | 1875-1950 | ||
| Police arrangements for general Shows | 1881-1939, 1948-1949 | ||
| Medals | 1882-1939 | ||
| District competitions, list of grants | 1920-1933 | ||
| Correspondence re Show at Inverness | 1932 | ||
| Correspondence re royal visits to Shows | 1948-1955 | ||
| Minutes re future Show policy | 1957-1958 | ||
| Correspondence re Show at Ayr | 1958 | ||
| Correspondence re Show at Aberdeen | 1959 | ||
| Correspondence re Show at Edinburgh | 1960 | ||
| Plan of Ingliston car parks | 1980 | ||
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| ST KILDA | |||
| Subscriptions, correspondence, bankbooks etc re St Kilda Bequest | 1857-1931 | ||
| Correspondence concerning the island | 1859-1919 | ||
| Photographs, plan, valuation, printed papers etc | 1859-1920 | ||
| Minutes of relief fund | 1860-1861 | ||
| Letters from the factor | 1885-1908 | ||
| Letters from islanders | 1914 | ||
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| AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS | |||
| Newspaper cuttings re agricultural statistics for Scotland | 1853-1857 | ||
| Accounts, cash books, enumerators’ fees and list of Committee members | 1854-1858 | ||
| List of parishes with postal towns of inspectors L | 1855 | ||
| ist of occupants for agricultural statistics project | 1856 | ||
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| MISCELLANEOUS | |||
| Manuscripts on agricultural topics by Robert Maxwell of Arkland | c.1757 | ||
| James Watt’s [MS] report on Tarbert and Crinan to the Commissioners for Annexed Estates | 1772 | ||
| Patents, specifications and diagrams for reaping machines | 1799-1852 | ||
| Press cuttings | 1804, 1811-1938 | ||
| Papers re Gaelic dictionary | 1814-1838 | ||
| Geognostical accounts | 1818, 1840 | ||
| Aberdeenshire quarries, manuscript accounts by James Blaikie | 1832 | ||
| Descriptions, memoirs and reports of coalfields | 1839-1945 | ||
| Geology of Arran | c. 1840 | ||
| Report of the Holy Guild of St Joseph, and St Andrew’s Mortuary Gild | 1843 | ||
| Auction sale catalogues of Clydesdale horses and Ayrshire cattle with portraits of horses | 1877-1879 | ||
| Argyll Naval fund accounts and applications | 1885-1935 | ||
| Scottish Agricultural Committee for Relief of the Allies letter book | 1919-1921 | ||
| Scottish Red Cross Agriculture Fund papers | 1943-1946 | ||
| Papers re Blads farm | 1968-1974 | ||
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records are held in the Society’s Library at the Royal Highland Centre,
Ingliston, Edinburgh EH28 8NF. Please contact the Librarian, to arrange
access. Opening hours: 0930-1600 Tuesday, Thursday by appointment; other days by arrangement. Tel: 0131 333 6200 Fax: 0131 333 5236 Library Tel: 0131 335 6277 Email: library@rhass.org.uk Website: www.rhass.org.uk |
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