xl Annual General Meeting, December 11, 1912. 



Le May, Mr. Llewellyn T. E. Llewellyn, Professor W. McCracken, ]\Ir. Kenneth 

 J. J. Mackenzie, Mr. Archibald McNeilagc, ]\Ir. Joseph Martin, ilr. Hem-y 

 Matthews, Mr. C. Morris, Mr. Thomas Nesbitt. ]\Ir. T. G. Owen, Mr. Benjamin 

 Painter, Mr. P. J. Parmiter, Professor John Penberthy, Mr. Edward C. 

 Rausome, Mr. R. Henry Rew, C.B., Mr. J. A. Robinson, Mr. 8t. John B. Roscoe, 

 the Rev. H. M. Rowdon, Mr. Aubrey Rumball, Mr. C. Franklin Simmons, Mr. 

 E. C. Simon, Mr. James Slatter, Mr. Richard Stratton, Mr. Daniel Swaffer, Mr. 

 Alfred Tanner, Mr. J. Herbert Taylor, Mr. George D. Thody, Mr. C. D. Thompson, 

 Mr. E. Trimen, Col. F. A. Walker-Jones, Mr. E. Watson, Mr. J. W. Watt, Mr. 

 Jonas M. Webb, Mr. W. F. Wood, Mr. N. W. Wortley, &c. 



Officers. — Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker, Consulting Chemist ; Mr. Thomas 

 McRow, Secretary. 



President's Opening Remarks. 



The President, in opening the proceedings, said that, in the first place, he 

 should like, on behalf of the Society, to acknowledge the courtesy of the Royal 

 Agricultural Hall Company and the Smithfield Club in allowing them to hold 

 the meeting in that room, and thus giving an opportunity for so many Members 

 to be present. The past year had been a somewhat eventful one in the agricul- 

 tural world, and especially for the Society. 



Doncaster Show. 



The outbreaks of Foot-and-Mouth Disease, commencing at the end of last 

 June, had the very serious effect of causing the Society to abandon the cattle, 

 sheep and pig portions of the Show, and this caused great disappointment to a 

 large number of exhibitors and others. However, in spite of this, the Show 

 was loyally supported by the people of Yorkshire, and the result was much 

 more satisfactory than could have been anticipated. In this connection he 

 would like to say how much they were indebted to the Mayor and Corporation 

 of Doncaster, the Race Committee, and the Local Executive Committee. Then, 

 again, they had the great advantage of the very cordial co-operation of both the 

 Yorkshire Agricultural Society and the Doncaster Agi-icultiu-al Society, which 

 bodies both gave up their shows in favour of the Royal. Once more they had 

 to acknowledge the great services rendered to the Society by their Honorary 

 Director, Sir Gilbert Greenall. (Hear, hear.) During the time of stress at 

 Doncaster, he left no stone unturned in his efforts to do everything possible for 

 the convenience, not only of exhibitors, but also of the herdsmen and attendants, 

 who naturally were most anxious as to what was really going to happen. Most 

 unfortunately. Sir Gilbert was unable to be with them that day, having been 

 called away on important business. 



The first item on the agenda was the presentation of the balance-sheet, and 

 those present all had in their hands the accounts for this year's Show, which, 

 as he had said, could but be regarded as satisfactory, bearing in mind all the 

 circumstances. 



Report. 



It would be noticed from the Report of the Council, which the Members also 

 had before them, that during the past year the Society had lost by death a good 

 many of its supparters, and he mtich regretted that there had now to be added 

 to the list given in the report, the names of Mr. Henry Dudding and Sir Charles 

 Whitehead. Mr. Henry Dudding joined the Society as a Member in 1870, and 

 in 1906 was elected to the Council as a representative of the Division of 

 Lincolnshire. Mr. Dudding was, he thought, known to almost all of them as a 

 most successful breeder and exhibitor of Shorthorns and Lincoln sheep. The 

 late Sir Charles Whitehead, who resigned his position as a Vice-President in 

 1907, was elected a Member in 1857, and he had served on the Council for no 

 less than thirty-eight years. Sir Charles acted on several occasions as a steward 

 at the Show, and for a number of years filled the position of Chairman of the 

 Botanical and Zoological Committee. He had also written some valuable 

 papers for the Society's Journal. 



