Attmiat General Meeting, JDecemhei' 11, 1912. xxxix 



manner in which the conditions upon which this Society voluntarily offered not to 

 hold a Show in the year 1012 were carried out. 



"They much regret that the unfortunate outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in 

 Ireland, and the restrictions on the movement of stock, except horses, which were 

 necessarily enforced resulted in the Doncaster Show not being the success there is 

 every reason to suppose it otherwise would have been." 



A letter was also read from the Secretary of the Doucaster Agricultural 

 Society stating that at the Annual Meeting of that Society he had been 

 desired to express, on their behalf, their appreciation of the generous manner 

 in which the members of the local Society had been treated by the Royal 

 Agricultural Society on the occasion of the Dimcaster Show. 



The following Standing Committees were appointed for 1913 : — 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 one or two exceptions, reappointed to those Committees. 

 Lord Strachie was added to the Botanical and Zoological and Veterinary 

 Comnnttees, Mr. G. R. Lane-Fox, M.P., to the Botanical and Zoological and 

 Showyard Works Committees, Mr. A. W. Perkin to the Chemical and Woburn 

 Committee, Mr. Davis Brown to the Stock Prizes Committee, Mr. E. V. V. 

 Wheeler, Mr. T. L. Aveling, and Mr. Joseph Harris to the Committee of 

 Selection. 



On a motion from the Chair, the Seal of the Society was affixed to the 

 Agreement in connection with the Society's tenancy of the Charity Farm at 

 Woburn. 



Other business having been transacted, the Council adjourned until 

 Wednesday, February 5, 1913. 



procccMngs at tbe Bnmml 

 (Beneral riDcctina of (Bovcrnors anb riDenibere, 



HELD AT THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON, 



WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1912. 



LORD MIDDLETON (PRESIDENT) IN THE CHAIR. 



Present : — Trustees. — Mr. P\ S. W. Cornwallis, the Earl of Northbrook, Sir 

 John H. Thorold, Bart. 



Vice-Presidents. — Mr. C. R. W. Adeane, the Right Hon. Sir A. E. Fellowes, 

 K.C.V.O.. Mr. R. M. Greaves. 



Other Members of Council. — Mr. D. T. Alexander, Mr. T. L. Aveling, Mr. 

 E. W. Betts, Mr. Davis Brown, Mr. James Falconer, Mr. J. W. Glover, Lord 

 Hastings, Mr. J. H. Hine, Mr. R. W. Hobbs, Mr. W. J. Hosken, Mr. W. F. 

 Ingram, Mr. J. L. Luddington, Mr. Alfred Mansell, Mr. Ernest Mathews, Mr. 

 Claude M. S. Pilkington, Mr. G. G. Rea, Mr. Frederick Reynard, Mr. C. W. 

 Tindall, Mr. A. P. Turner, and Mr. E. V. V. Wheeler. 



Honorary Member.— Sir Thomas H. Elliott, K.C.B. 



Governors.— Lieut.-Co\. J. F. Curtis-Hay ward, Mr. Frederick Ernest Muntz, 

 Mr. Beville Stanier, M.P., Mr. Martin J. Sutton. 



Members.~:Slv. John Alexander. Mr. W. W. Baylis, Mr. J. L. Beck, Mr. John 

 J. Bell, Mr. Thomas Blackwell, Mr. F. J. Casserley, Mr. J. Chalcraft, Mr. W. S. 

 Cleverley, Mr. J. E. Cooke, Mr. Thomas Corbett, Mr. William Cory, Mr. G. Loyd 

 Courthope, M.P., Major P. G. Craigie, C.B., Mr. H. S. Daine, Mr. J. L. Daniell, 

 Mr. A. W. Dean, Mr. L. de Wyttenbach, Mr. John Evens, Mr. William Fortune, 

 Mr. Henry Walter Gilbey, Mr. F. L. Gooch, Mr. Edward Grasett, Mr. J. E. Grove, 

 Mr. C. Y. Hewitt, Mr. T. A. Huband, Mr. Clement Keevil, Mr. Dunbar Kelly, 

 Mr. W. G. Lane, Mr. William Langridge, the Rev. Cecil H. Legard, Mr. C. W. 



