xxxviii Annnai General Meeting, December 9, 1914. 



Lord Steachie'S motion, not being seconded, fell to the ground, and tlie 

 Report of the Veterinary Commitlee was adopted. 



In presenting the Report of the Committee of Selection — which was 

 received and adopted — Sir John Thorold said he was sure the Council would 

 be glad to learn of the recommendation that Sir Gilbert Greenall should be 

 elected a Trustee of the Society for the great services he had rendered to them, 

 and also that Lord Powis should be elected a Vice-President. (Hear, hear.) 



Mr. Ernest Mathews, in moving that a Member be dismissed, said that 

 under By-law 16 "any ten Governors or Members of the Society may send in 

 writing to the Council a request, signed by them, that any Governor or 

 Member shall be dismissed from the Society. Such request shall be placed in 

 a conspicuous part of the Council room, and a copy thereof, signed by the 

 Secretary, shall be transmitted by post to the Governor or Member proposed 

 to be dismissed. At the first monthly meeting of the Council, at which twelve 

 Members at least shall be present, and which shall take place not less than one 

 month after such request shall have been placed in the Council room, the 

 Council shall take the matter into their consideration. If the Council shall 

 unanimously agree to the dismissal of such Governor or Member, he shall 

 thereupon and thenceforth cease to be a Governor or Member of the Society." 



All those formalities had been complied with. Prizes had been awarded to 

 the Jlember in question, who had made false statements on the entry forms 

 sent in by him. The matter had been verj' carefully gone into, particularly 

 by the Breed Society of which the defaulter had been a Member. They had 

 not only satisfied themselves, but a letter had been received from the wife of 

 the defaulter to say that the entries were wrong, and therefore there was 

 nothing further to do except to move that the terms of By-law 16 be complied 

 with, and that the Member in question be dismissed from the Society. 



Mr. Reynard, in seconding the resolution, could only say that the case was 

 one of the grossest fraud, and he was sure the Council would not wish to allow 

 any man guilty of such fraud to remain a Member of their honourable Society. 



Mr. TiNDALL, as representing the Breed Society in question, having 

 explained the action taken by them, the resolution was put to the meeting and 

 unanimously adopted. 



The following Standing Committees were appointed for 1915 : — Finance, 

 Journal and Education, Chemical and Woburn, Botanical and Zoological, 

 Veterinary, Stock Prizes, Implement, Showyard Works, Selection, Dairy and 

 Produce, and Special. The present Members of the various Standing Com- 

 mittees were (with some exceptions) reappointed to those Committees. The 

 Hon. John Boscawen was added to the Journal and Education, Botanical and 

 Zoological, and Showyard Works Committees, Mr. W. W. Chapman to the 

 Veterinary Committee, the Earl of Powis, Lord Middleton and Mr. Harrison to 

 the Committee of Selection. 



Other business having been transacted, the Council adjourned over the 

 Christmas recess until Wednesday, January 27, 191.5. 



IproceeMnge at tbe annual 

 (Beneral flDcetinG of (Bovernore anb flDembera, 



HELD AT THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON, 



WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1914. 



THE EARL OF NOETHBEOOK (TEUSTEE) IN THE OHAIE. 



Present: — Trustees. — Sir J. B. Bowen-Jones, Bart., Lord Middleton, Sir John 

 H. Thorold, Bart. 



Vice-Prenide/Us. — Mr. C. R. W. Adeaae, Mr. Percy Crutchley, the Right 

 Hon. Sir Ailwyn Fellowes, K.C.V.O., Sir Gilbert Greenall, Bart., C.V.O. 



