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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL TO THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF GOVERNORS 



AND MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY, 



Held at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, N., 

 On WEDNESDAY, December 9, 1914, at 2.3U p.m. 



The Council have to report that the list of Governors and 

 Members has undergone the following changes during the yeai 

 which has elapsed since the Annual General Meeting on 

 December 10th, 1913: 17 new Governors (iacluding 6 transferred 

 from the list of Members under By-law 7), and 688 new Members 

 have joined the Society, 10 Members have been re-instated under 

 By-law 14, and 3 Honorary Members have been elected by the 

 Council; whilst the deaths of 6 Life Governors, 3 Governors, 

 2 Honorary Members, 90 Life Members and 144 Members have 

 been reported, A total of 42 Members have been struck oft the 

 books under By-law 12, owing to absence of addresses ; 1 Governor 

 and 90 Members under By-law 13, for arrears of subscription ; and 

 2 Governors and 196 Annual Members have resigned. 



Since the last Annual Meeting the losses through death 

 sustained by the Society have again been heavy. Mr. Martin 

 John Sutton, of Reading, who died suddenly in December last, 

 was an active Member of the Council from 1883 till 1904, and at 

 the time of his decease was one of the Society's representatives 

 on the National Agricultural Examination Board, of which body 

 he had been appointed Chairman in the week preceding his 

 death. It wiU also be remembered by those who were at the 

 Annual Meeting last year that Mr. Sutton was present and spoke 

 on that occasion. 



Amongst other Governors and Members whose death the 

 Society has to deplore are Earl Cawdor, Earl of Clarendon, 

 G.C.B. (Life Gov.), Earl of EUesmere (Life Gov.), Earl of Minto, 

 K.G., Earl of Wemyss and March, Viscount Cross, G.C.B., Lord 

 Belper (Life Gov.), Lord Forbes, Lord Merthyr, K.C.V.O., Lord 

 Sutheld, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., Lord Ventry, Col. the Hon. A. Cath- 

 cart, the Hon. R. P. Nevill, the Hon. H. E. Scott, Sir Herbert 

 Ashman, Bart., Sir C. G. Assheton-Smith, Bart. (Gov J, Sir 

 Stephen W. Furness, Bart., M.P., Sir J. H. Heathcoat-Amory, 

 Bart., Sir E. Durning Lawrence, Bart., Sir Charles Morrison- 

 Bell, Bart., Sir J. W. Ramsden, Bart., Sir John Shiffiier, Bart., 

 Sir John Swinburne, Bart. (Life Gov.), Sir H. M. Vavasour, Bart., 

 Sir William Vincent, Bart., Sir M. A. Wilson, Bart., Surgeon- 

 General Sir Annesley C. C. De Renzy, K.C.B., Mr. Eustace H. 

 Barlow, Mr. Thomas Bate, Mr. J. B. Close Brooks, Mr. C. T. D. 

 Crews, Mr. Cyril G. Cunard, Mr. G. C. Dobell (1864), Major-Gen. 

 H. Edmeades, Mr. William Foster (Mel Valley), Mr. T. W. 

 Glenny (Sidcup), Mr. C. S. Hardy, Mr. W. H. Hills, Mr. G. M. 

 Hipwell (1860), Mr. E. G. Hodgson (1861), Mr. James Hole (1862), 

 Mr. James Hope (East Barns, Dunbar), Mr. Henry C. Howard, 

 Mr. Robert Howell, Col. R. Inigo Jones, Mr. Myles Kennedy, 



