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Eoyal Agricultural Society." That Society he had joined iu 1857, 

 and was elected a Member of its Council on the 8th December, 

 1869. It was at his instance that a " Seeds and Plants Diseases 

 Committee " (subsequently called the Botanical and Zoological 

 Committee) was created by the Council in 1871, and he was 

 elected its first Chairman, retaining that position till 1899. He 

 wrote many papers and reports for the Royal Agricultural 

 Society's Journal on botanical and zoological subjects, particularly 

 on Market Gardening, Hop Cultivation, Fruit Farming, Potato 

 Culture, and the Agriculture of Kent. He was elected a Vice- 

 President of the Eoyal Agricultural Society in February 1889, 

 and iu the same year was appointed one of the nine original 

 Trustees under the Lawes Agricultural Trust. 



In 1887 he became Agricultural adviser of the Veterinary 

 Department of the Privy Council, and was continued iu that 

 office when the Board of Agriculture was established in 1889. 

 He wrote for the Government various reports on injurious 

 insects and fungi, especially on the Hessian fly, Eust or Mildew 

 on Wheat Plants, potato disease, wire-worms, smut of corn, and 

 clover fungus ; besides papers on ensilage and fruit-evaporation. 

 He retired from this position in 1899 in view of a cari'iage 

 accident that brought on neuritis, rendering scientific investigations 

 involving much research and microscopical examination impossible 

 for him. He gave evidence on Hop and Iruit growing before the 

 first Eoyal Commission on Agriculture (1879), and was a member 

 of the second Commission appointed bj' Mr. Gladstone in 

 September 1893, which did not complete its labours till May 

 1897. In his later years he removed from Banning House, 

 Maidstone, to St. Leonards-on-Sea, where he lived in retirement 

 until his death. 



For his services to agricultural improvement he was knighted 

 by King Edward VII. at Buckingham Palace on the 16th 

 December, 1907. 



He was a cultured man of refined and literary tastes, and un- 

 doubtedly did much to bring under public notice the means of 

 keeping farm pests — both animal and vegetable — under control. 

 On the particular subjects that he had made his own, he was 

 rightly regarded as an authority. [Eknest Clabke.] 



June 5th, 1913. 



Prof. E. B. PouLTON, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Aniversary Meeting of the 24th May, 1913, 

 were I'ead and confirmed. 



Mr. Charles Oldham was admitted a Fellow. 



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