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REPORT OF IHE COUNCIL TO THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF GOVERNORS 



AND MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY, 



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

 On WEDNESDAY, December 11, ll»12, at 3 p.m. 



Lord Middlbton (President) in tlie Chair. 



The Council have to report that the list of Governors and 

 Members has undergone the following changes during the year 

 which has elapsed since the Annual Genera! Meeting on 

 December 6th, 1911 : 5 new Governors and 589 new Members 

 have joined the Society, and 4 Members have been re-instated 

 under By-law 14; whilst the deaths of 3 Life Governors, 3 

 Governors, 2 Honorary Members, 91 Life Members, and 186 

 Annual Members have been reported. A total of 22 Members 

 have been struck off the books under By-law 12, owing to absence 

 of addresses; 67 Members under By-law 13, for arrears of sub- 

 scription ; and 2 Governors and 221 Annual Members have 

 resigned. 



2. During the past year, the losses by death sustained by 

 the Society include one Member of the Council (Mr. George 

 Taylor) and three ex-Councillors (Mr. William Scoby, Mr. Alfred 

 J. Smith, and Lord 'Wenlock, G.C.S.L). Mr. George Taylor, 

 who died on the 26th August after a long illness, had repre- 

 sented the Division of Middlesex on the Council since the year 

 1905. He was a past president of the Shorthorn Society, and as 

 a breeder of Dairy Shorthorns he had made for himself a reputa- 

 tion not only at home but also in many other parts of the world. 

 Mr. William Scoby, a prominent Yorkshire agriculturist, and 

 breeder of horses and Shorthorn cattle, who passed away in 

 October last, had represented the North Eiding of Yorkshire. He 

 joined the Council in 1901, and continued a member of that 

 body until the end of last year, when, on account of failing 

 health, he decided not to seek re-election. Mr. Alfred J. Smith, 

 who died in October, at the age of 77, was another well-known 

 personage in the agricultural world. Mr. Smith had been on the 

 Council for upwards of 20 years, when, in 1907, owing to ad- 

 vancing years, he decided to retire, and his place was taken by 

 his son. Mr. Alfred Smith farmed on the Rendlesham Estate 

 for half-a-century, and achieved fame as a breeder of Suffolk 

 horses. Red Poll cattle, and Suffolk sheep. The late Lord 

 Wenlock, whose decease took place early in the year, became a 

 Member of the Society in 1881, and served on the Council from 

 1902 to 1905. 

 3. Amongst other Governors and Members whose loss by 

 death, since the last Annual Meeting, the Society has to deplore, 

 are the Marquis of Hertford (Gov.), the Earl 'of Euston, Earl 

 Ferrers, Viscount Gage, Viscount Peel, Lord Calthorpe, K.C.B., 

 Lord Furness (Gov.), Lord Llangattock (Gov.), Lord St. John, 

 Lord Stalbridge, Lord Wandsworth, Lord Waterpark (1865), The 



