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NEW MEMBERvS PROPOSED. 



:\Ir. R. C01.TON, 244, Bramall Lane, Sheffield. 

 Proposed by Mr. OsbaldeSTON. 



Messrs. R. Hyde & Co., Ltd., Harold Street, 



Cambervvell, S.K). Proposed by the Hon. Sec. 



Mr. Henry Fortlage, Suffolk House, Weybridge. 

 Proposed by Mr. WiENER. 



To the Hon. Sec. F. B. C. 



vSiR, — With reference to the new rules proposed b}' 

 Mr. FVostick, I must, in the interests of the Irish 

 members, strongly protest against the rule relating to 

 the Society's medals only being granted for competition 

 when all members may exhibit and compete. 



This rule may be all ver\' good in England, where 

 the fancy is universal, but there are so few exhibitors 

 over here, that the Secretaries of the various Shows have 

 to confine the entries to Ireland only, in order to 

 encourage the few we have. If Mr. Frostick's proposal 

 be carried, in order to obtain the medals of the F. B. C. 

 in future, it would be necessar}' to make the Shows 

 open "to the United Kingdom," and, in fact, to other 

 countries, if all members of the Club were eligible. 

 Before the Show Committees over here would do such a 

 thing, they would wipe " Foreigners " off the schedules 

 altogether. 



Considering the great success of the last Dublin 

 Show — in the foreign classes especiall}- — I had hoped to 

 enlist several new members of the Club, but they are 

 very cautious, aud like to know what benefits are to be 

 derived, before they join, and unless I hold out hopes of 

 getting a medal for competition liere, in a Show confined 

 to Ireland, I fear the Club, so far as Irish members are 

 concerned, will cease to be of any interest. 



Andrew Phii.ip. 



