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The following comiminic;ition from the Right Hon. Walter Runciniaii, M.P., 



was read to the Council : — 



August 16, 1914. 

 Dear Sir.— On leaving the Board of Agriculture, over which I have had the 

 honour of presiding for the past three years, I wish to express to the Council of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society my thanks for the ready and invaluable lielp given to 

 me while I was President of the Board. The co-operation and support given so 

 ungrudgingly by your Council compel me to express the sense of obligation under 

 which I lie to them.— Believe me to be, Tours faithfully, 

 The Secretary (Signed) Walter Runciman. 



Royal Agricultural Society 

 of England. 

 The Report of the Council to the Annual General Meeting of Crovernors and 

 Members, to be held at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, at 2.30 p.m. on 

 Wednesday, December 9, was prepared and ordered to be issued. 



Other business having been transacted, the Council adjourned until 

 Wednesday, December 9, 1914. 



WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1914. 



At a Monthly Council, held at 16 Bedford Sqtiare, London, W.C., the Earl of 

 NORTHBROOK (Trustee) in the Chair : — 



Present : — Trustees. — H.R.H. Prince Christian, K.G., Sir J. B. Bowen-Jones, 

 Bart., the Earl of Coventry, the Duke of Devonshire, G.C.V.O., Lord Middleton, 

 Lord Moreton, Sir John H. Thorold, Bart. 



Vice-Presidents. — Mr. C. Adeane, Mr. Percy Crutchley, the Right Hon. 

 Sir A. E. Feliowes. K.C.V.O., Mr. R. M. Greaves, Sir Gilbert Greenall, Bart., 

 C.V.O., the Hon. Cecil T. Parker. 



Other Members of the Council. — Mr. D. T. Alexander, Capt. Clive Behrens, 

 Mr. E. W. Betts, Mr. Davis Brown, Mr. T. A. Buttar, Mr. W. W. Chapman, 

 the Hon. J. E. Cross, Mr. J. T. C. Eadie, Mr. John Evens, Mr. .]. Falconer, Sir 

 Howard Frank, Lord Harlech, Mr. Joseph Harris, Mr. J. H. Hine, Mr. A. 

 Hiscock, Mr. R. W. Hobbs, Mr. J. Howard Howard, Mr. J. L. Luddington. Mr. 

 Ernest Mathews, Mr. W. A. May, Mr. G. Norris Midwood, Mr. T. H. Miller, 

 Mr. John Myatt, Mr. W. Nocton, Mr. C. M. S. Pilkington, Lord Ranksborough, 

 Mr. F. Reynard, Mr. John Rowell, Capt. Percy W. Seward, Mr. Fred Smith, 

 Lord Strachie, Mr. C. W. Tindall, Mr. A. P. Turner, and Mr. L. C. Wrigley. 



President- Elect. —The. Duke of Portland, K.G. 



The following members of the Nottingham Local Committee were also 

 present : — The Mayor of Nottingham (Mr. Alderman Gregg), Mr. A. W. Hickling, 

 Alderman F. R. Radford, J. P., Councillor J. G. Small, Mr. T. Warner Turner, and 

 Messrs. W. J. Board (Town Clerk) and W. H. Bradwell (Hon. Local Secretaries). 



The Earl of Northbrook announced with regret that their President, Lord 

 Powis, was unwell, and unable to be present that morning. It therefore fell 

 to his duty, as ex- President, to occupy the chair. 



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

 November 4, 1914, were taken as read and confirmed. 



Twenty-seven duly nominated candidates were admitted into the Society 

 as Members under By-law 2. 



The Chairman said that since the last meeting of the Council they had 

 lost a very old and valuefl Member by the death of Sir Walter Gilbey. Sir 

 Walter's connection with the Society had existed for 45 years. He had been 

 elected a Member of Council in 1881. Vice-President in 1889, a Trustee in 1895, 

 and had been President of the Society in 1896, in which year the Show was 

 held at Leicester. He would be remembered for the active interest he took 

 for so many years in all matters connected with the Show, and also for the 

 great services he rendered to agriculture, particularly stock-breeding. It 

 would be the desire of the Council to express their regret at the loss of an old 

 and V9,lued colleague and their sympathy with his family in their bereavement. 



Tlie Report of the Finance Committee was received and adopted, together 

 with the audited accounts of the Shrewsbury Show. Mr. Adeane, in pre- 



