XX Monthly Council^ April 5, 1911. 



Oil the niotiou of Sir John ThoROLD, secondfd by Mr. Adeane, Mr. 

 Greaves was appointed a Vice-Presideut of the Society. 



A Report was also received and adopted from the Special Committee. A 

 suggestion that the officers of the Society should be asked to deliver lectures 

 to Members had been approved. It had been arranged that the first 

 of these lectures should be given by their Botanist, Professor Biffen, at 4 p.m. 

 on Tuesday, April 4 next. 



The Tuberculosis Experiment Committee's Report vyas received and 

 adopted. The Earl of Northbrook, in presenting this Report, said that 

 although everything was going on satisfactorily at Woburn, he regretted the 

 progress of the demonstration had not been so rapid as was expected. They 

 had experienced a greater diificulty than they anticipated in obtaining down- 

 calving cows that reacted to the test. As the Council would see, out of the 

 first lot of twenty cows, only one reacted in a satisfactory manner. Of the 

 third lot of eleven, seven reacted. He thought that was probably accounted 

 for by the fact that the first two lots were chiefly composed of young cows. 

 The last lot were mainly old cows. They had now at Woburn eight cows 

 which had reacted to the test. One cow had calved on Sunday. That calf 

 had been carefully removed to the new buildings, and was being fed on 

 sterilised milk. Every precaution was being taken against infection, and he 

 hoped that in a short time they would have calves from the other seven 

 cows. The Committee proposed to obtain seven more calves from reacting 

 cows as soon as possible, and thus to bring the number of calves at Woburn to 

 fifteen. The remaining cows would be obtained during the course of the 

 summer. 



Other business having been transacted, the Council adjourned until 

 Wednesday, April .5, 1911. 



WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1911. 



At a Monthly Council, held at 16 Bedford Square, W.C, the Right Hon. 

 AiLWYN E. Fellowes (Actiug-President) in the Chair : — 



Present : — Trustees. — Mr. J. Bowen-Jones, Mr. F. S. W. Cornwallis, Lord 

 Middleton, the Earl of Northbrook. Sir John H. Thorold, Bart. 



Vire-Presidents. — Mr. C. R. W. Adeane, Sir Richard P. Cooper, Bart., Mr. J. 

 Marshall Dugdale, Mr. R M. Greaves, Sir Gilbert Greenall, Bart., the Hon. 

 Cecil T. Parker. 



Other Members of the Council. — Mr. T. L. Aveling, Mr. H. Dent Brockle- 

 hurst, Major-General J. F. Brocklehurst, C.V.O., C.B., Mr. Davis Brown, Mr. 

 R. G. Garden, Mr. Richardson Carr, Mr. R. A. Cooper, M.P., the Hon. John E. 

 Cross, Mr. James E'alconer. Mr. Howard Frank, Mr. E. A. Hamlyn, Mr. Joseph. 

 Harris, Mr. W. Harrison. Sir A. G. Hazlerigg, Bart., Mr. John Howard Howard, 

 Mr. J. L. Luddington, Mr. Alfred Mansell, Mr. Ernest Mathews, Mr. W. A. 

 May, Mr. C. Middleton, Mr. G. Norris Midvvood, Mr. Henry Overman, Mr. R. 

 G. Patterson, Mr. C. M. S. Pilkington, Mr. G. G. Rea, Mr. F. Reynard, Mr. C. 

 G. Rogers, Mr. Fred Smith, Mr. H. H. Smith, Mr. George Taylor, Mr. C. W. 

 Tindall, Mr. A. P. Turner, Mr. E. V. V. Wheeler, Mr. C. W. Wilson, and 

 Mr. L. G. Wrigley. 



The following Members of the Norwich Local Committee were also 

 present : — The Lord Mayor of Norwich, Lord Hastings, and Mr. E. W. Beck 

 (Local Secretary). 



The minutes of the last meeting of the Council, held on Wednesday, 

 February 22, 1911, were taken as read and approved. 



Lord Aldenham. Mr. R. M. Greaves, Captain A. R. Steele, and the Earl of 

 Winchilsea were elected as Governors, and 128 duly nominated candidates 

 were admittetl into the Society as Members. 



The Report of the Finance Committee was presented, and adopted with 

 the omission of a paragraph respecting a scheme suggested by the Committee 



