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COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATIONS.
NORMAL SEMINARY,
IN CONNECTION WITH THE FREE CHURCH.
T. Morrison, LL.D., rector; Principal Douglas,
convener ; A. S. Baird, lion, secretary.
Senior Department, Dr. M'Birnie and G. Brown ;
Juvenile, J. Young, Miss Paterson, and Miss Parker;
Initiatory, Miss Ewing; Industrial Department,
Mrs. James, Miss Ballantine ; Mathematical tutor, J.
Kerr, LL.D.; Lecturer on Geography, &c, A. H. Dick,
D.Sc; Master of Method, E. Boyd; Music Governess,
Miss Orr ; Lady Superintendent, Mrs. James ; French,
Mons. Gorecki ; Music, Wm. M. Miller; Drawing, J.
White ; drill, Sergt. Pearcy ; janitor, William Gibson,
COMMEKCIAL ASSOCIATIONS.
TRADES' HOUSE— 1883-84.
Hugh Kennedy, Esq. , deacon- convener ; Wm. Mac-
Lean, jun., collector; Thos. Reid, late convener.
Hammermen. — Wm. Boyd, deacon ; Ja?. C. Mac-
Ewan, late deacon ; Andw. M'Onie, John Broadfoot,
D. Kinghorn, D. C. Glen.
Tailors.— W. R. Copland, deacon ; John Wingate,
late deacon ; James Imrie, Thomas Miller, James A.
Wilson,'Jolm Camming.
Cordiners. — Samuel Marks, deacon; Robert Pater-
son, late deacon ; Wm. V. Orr, James M'Gregor, A.
Mitchell, John Burt.
Maltmen. — A. M. Bayne, visitor ; Robert Robin,
late visitor; Wm. M'Lean, jun., James MTntosh,
John M'Gregor, Peter Ferguson.
Weavers. — George Younger, deacon ; James Thom-
son, late deacon ; William Newlands, John Millen.
Bakers. — Alex. Currie, deacon; Jas. T. Tullis, late
deacon ; Thomas G. Weir.
Skinners. — John S. Osborne, deacon; Andrew
Sharp, late deacon; Wm. Greig.
Wrights. — William Lightbody, deacon; Henry
Stewart, late deacon; R. A. Bryden, Hugh. Kennedy.
Coopers. — E. B. Paterson, deacon ; H. Macfarlane,
late deacon ; P. M'Laren.
Fleshers. — Alex. Thomson, deacon ; Alex. Grosart,
late deacon ; J. B. Gilmour.
Masons. — Thos. Mason, deacon; James Howatt,
late deacon ; John Morrison.
Gardeners. — Alex. Ogilvie, deacon ; J. Hutcheson,
late deacon; A. G. Service.
Barbers. — James Laird, deacon; R. M. Steven,
late deacon; Andrew Lauchlan.
Dyers.— Donald Munro, deacon ; James Reid, late
deacon ; Thomas Reid.
Thomas Weir, clerk, 111 Brunswick Street ; J.
Farrell, officer, 91 Glassford Street.
MARYHILL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Office-bearers for 1881 — President, Alex. Buchanan,
Milngavie ; vice-president, Arch. Bulloch, Millichen ;
directors, Captain Anderson, W. Arrol, David Bu-
chanan, Samuel Cameron, Arch. Coubrough, John
Craig, Wm. Craig, D. C. Dick, Gavin Gordon, John
L. Imrie, Dr. Hay, David Hamilton, James Hender-
son, Wm. Henderson, James Johnston, Allan Kirk-
wood, E. W. Langlands, Jas. Martin, Dr. Marwick,
Robert M'Kean, Robert M'Kissock, Alex. M'Lachlan,
John M'Lachlan, Wm. M'Leod, Robert M'Nair, Wm.
Neilson, Robert Paton, Andrew Renwick, George
Robertson, James Robertson, Robt. Russell, John
Scott, A. Sommerville, John Wallace, Robert Wal-
lace, W. Young ; hon. secretary and treasurer, David
Duncan, 175 West George Street, Glasgow.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
7 West George Street.
Board of Directors for 1883. — President, John
M'Laren, Esq. ; vice-president and hon. treasurer,
James Campbell, Esq.; secretary, William H. Hill;
directors, Chas. Tennant, M.P., John Ramsay, M.P.,
Stewart Clark, M.P, J. C. Bolton, M.P., John Miller,
John M'Laren, David M'CowaD, Robert Gourlay,
Stephen Mason, William M'Ewen, A. Hannay, David
Guthrie, J. H. N. Graham, Gilbert Beith, Jas. Arthur,
Arch. Arrol, R. Young, Paul Rottenburg, Jas. King,
Leonard Gow, M. Connal, D. S. Cargill, Hugh Brown,
Sir Jas. Bain, Sir Jas. Watson, D. Sandeman, W.
Renny Watson, T. Henderson, Jas. Campbell, Alex.
Allan, George Smith, Alex. Stephen, James Reid,
David Bannerman, H. L. Seligmann.
The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, incorporated
by royal charter in 1793, includes at present upwards
of 900 members, representing the principal merchants,
manufacturers, and shippers in the city and neigh-
bourhood, and is recognized as the principal medium
of communication with the Government and Legisla-
ture on all commercial matters. The executive power
is lodged in a board of thirty-six directors, chosen at
the annual general meetings. The hoard meets for
the discussion of mercantile questions once a month,
or more frequently if found necessary.
ART UNION OF GLASGOW.
Instituted 1811 — Incorporated by Royal Charter,
1861.
Acting secretary, MacLean Brodie, C.A., 22 Ren-
field Street. The object of this Association is the
promotion of the Fine Arts. A subscription of one
Guinea constitutes membership for one year, for
which subscribers are entitled to receive the Society's
Engraving, or other work of Art selected for the
year, and the chance of obtaining a prize painting
at the Annual Meeting.
THE GLASGOW AND WEST OF SCOTLAND
LICENSED GROCERS' ASSOCIATION.
President, George Ogilvie, 108, 110 George St. ;
vice-president, James Hunter, Victoria Cross, Cross-
hill; treasurer, Robert Chrystal, 1 Charing Cross;
secretary, William Veitch Orr, writer, 93 W. Regent
Street; offices, 93 West Regent Street.
The objects of the Association are to protect the
just rights and interests of the trade in the full and
free exercise of their business ; and for that purpose,
by themselves or a legal agent, to watch and op-
pose any measure or proceeding, parliamentary or
local, which may have an injurious or oppressive
tendencv.