REPORT OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS' EXPERIENCE OF THE DICK BEQUEST FOR ELEVATING THE CHARACTER AND POSITION OF THE PAROCHIAL ABERDEEN, BANFF, AND MORAY, EMBRACING AN EXPOSITION OF THE DESIGN AND OPERATION OF THE PARISH SCHOOL. PRESENTED TO THE TRUSTEES BY ALLAN MENZIES, WRITER TO THE SIGNET, PROFESSOR OF CONVEYANCING IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, CLERK TO THE TRUSTEES. Gough Ado Scotland P338. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON. AND A. BROWN AND CO., ABERDEEN. MDCCCLIV. NOTE BY THE TRUSTEES. THE present Trustees feel called upon to give to this, the Third Report presented to them, the same circulation which their brethren, then acting, gave to that which preceded it ten years ago. They know not that they can better state their reasons for so doing than by republishing an extract from the short Note which was prefixed to that Second Report,— 66 It was the wish of the Trustees that the present Report should not only embrace a statement of "the present condition of the Schools which enjoy "the benefit of the Bequest, but also give a view "of the object of the Trustees in its management " and distribution, and of the means by which it "was hoped that object had been to some extent attained. 66 The Trustees wished also, with a view to the "benefit and improvement of the Teachers, that the Report should go more fully than might seem |