Monthly Covncil, June 10, 1914. xxv 



Vice-Presidents. — Mr. C. Adeane, Mr. J. Marshall Dugdale, the Right Hon. 

 Sir A. E. Fellowes, K.C.V.O,, Mr. R. M. Greaves, the Hon. Cecil T. Parker, the 

 Earl of Yarborough. 



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

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

 Evens, Mr. W. T. Game, Lord Harlech, Mr. Joseph Harris, Mr. W. Harrison, 

 Sir Arthur G. Hazlerigg, Bart., Mr. R. VV. Hobbs, Mr. John Howard Howard, 

 Mr. Alfred Mansell, Mr. Ernest Mathews, Mr. C. Mitklleton, Mr. G. Norris 

 Midvvood, Mr. Henry Overman, Mr. A. W. Perkin, Mr. 0. M. S. Pilkington, Mr. 

 G. G. Rea, Mr. F. Reynard, Mr. C. C. Rogers, Mr. B. W. Stanyforth, and Lord 

 Stracbie. 



Governor. — Mr. Harold Swithinbank. 



The following Members of the Shrewsbury Local Committee were also 

 present :— Mr. B. Blower, Mr. Beville Stanier, M.P., and Mr. E. Clothier 

 (Local Secretary). 



The minutes of the last Council meeting, held on May G, 1914, were taken 

 as read and approved. 



Sir Richard A. Cooper, Bart., M.P., Felden Lodge, Boxmoor, Mr. Roger J. 

 Corbet, Ynys-y-Maengwyn, Towyn, Merioneth, and Sir Owen C. Philipps, 

 K.C.M.G., 76 Eaton Square, S.W., were elected as Governors, and ninety-nine 

 duly nominated candidates were admitted into the Society as Members. 



On the motion of Mr. Adeane, seconded by Sir John Thorold, it was 

 unanimously resolved : — 



" That the Secretary be empowered to issue to any duly nominated candidate 

 for membership of the Society, on receipt of the annual subscription, a badge 

 admitting the candidate to the same privileges as a Member during the forthcoming 

 Sliow at Shrewsbury ; the formal election of such candidate to be considered by 

 the Council at their next ordinary meeting." 



Sir BOWEN BowEN-JONES, in presenting the Report of the Chemical and 

 Wobum Committee, said the Council would have observed that the Develop- 

 ment Commissioners had consented to receive that afternoon a small deputation 

 on the question of further support being given by them to an extended scheme 

 at the Woburn Experimental Station. Under those circumstances, at the 

 request of the President, he had suggested that the Chemical Committee should 

 withdraw the Report they had already presented to the Council — to which 

 course the Committee had assented. He therefore begged to withdraw that 

 Report, and, consequently, would not proceed with the notice standing in his 

 name on the agenda paper. It would be the duty of the Chemical Committee, 

 after ascertaining the views of the Development Commissioners, to formulate 

 proposals for the future permanent conduct of the Woburn Experimental 

 Station, and, as this question affected other departments of the Society's work, 

 they were willing, without abrogating their prerogatives, to submit their 

 suggestions for review and report to the Special Committee, provided it dealt 

 in the same way with the interests of the other Committees affected. 



Mr. Greaves, in presenting the Report of the Implement Committee, said 

 the regulations for the trials of agricultural motors and ploughs, to be held 

 next year, were set out as provisional regulations, the Committee's object being 

 that they might be in the hands of those interested before the Show, and they 

 might be reconsidered later in the light of any criticisms or suggestions that 

 might be received. 



The Report of the Selection Committee was received and adopted, and, on 

 the motion of Sir John Thorold (Chairman), it was unanimously resolved that 

 Professor Edoardo Perroncito, of Turin, be elected an Honorary Member of the 

 Society. 



The Secketaky announced tliat the Trustees of the "Queen Victoria 

 Gifts " Fund had decided to make a grant to the Royal Agricultural Benevolent 

 Institution of 140Z. for the year 1914, to be distributed as fourteen grants of 

 10/. each to the five male candidates, five married couples, and four female 

 candidates who i)olled the largest number of votes in their class, and who 



