xlii Annual General Meeting, December 11, 1912. 



willing to receive them. That implied that the Royal Society's peregrinating 

 Shows were not played out by any means. He thought they should congratu- 

 late themselves on the action taken by the Council in connection with Foot- 

 and-Mouth Disease. On page 12 of the Report they were reminded that the 

 Council had taken a very prominent part in urging upon the Government the 

 necessity of restrictions being still enforced and not relaxed, and bearing in 

 mind the great temptation there was to the Government to relax those 

 restrictions, he thought they ought to be more grateful, not only to the Council, 

 for the action they had taken, but to Mr. Runciman for making such a decided 

 answer to the Irishmen when they needed to be reminded that we were the 

 controlling party. 



He (the speaker) had the honour still to represent the Society on their 

 National Diploma Examination Board, and he thought they would all agree 

 with him that when they saw such a large number of successful candidates, 

 not only for the Diploma in Agriculture, but also for the Diploma in Dairying, 

 they must consider that they were as a Society doing good work, and that the 

 Report therefore merited the approval of the meeting. He had the very 

 greatest pleasure in proposing its adoption. 



Major P. G. Ceaigie, C.B. (Lympstone, Devon), seconded with pleasure the 

 resolution which Mr. Sutton had proposed. On many occasions he had met 

 his fellow Members of that great Society at that meeting, and looking back 

 over nearly half a century of membership of the Society, he did not remember 

 that they had had within the terms of that Report a more vivid picture of the 

 activities of the old Society than they had that day. Not only was the Society 

 identified with that great function of the year, the Show, to which Mr. Sutton 

 had referred, but they might congratulate themselves that, in spite of all their 

 difficulties, they still held aloft the good standard of work in the Chemical, 

 Experimental, Botanical, Zoological, and Veterinary Departments of the 

 Society. To all of those who believed that the great agricultural societies were 

 first of all really educational bodies, striving to promote the agriculture of the 

 country, it must be a source of the greatest gratification that, under such 

 chairmanship as they had, and under the guidance of their able officials, the 

 Royal Agricultui'al Society, in good times and bad, had done so well as the 

 Report testified. No further words from him were necessary to second the 

 motion, which he did very cordially. 



The Report was then adopted. 



Election of President. 



Professor John Penberthy (Newnham, Glos.) esteemed it a great honour 

 to be invited to propose the resolution, and it was a particular privilege that he 

 had in the resolution to bring before their notice a name which he was sure 

 would commend itself to their most favourable consideration and hearty support. 

 It was his privilege to propose that the Earl of Northbrook be elected President 

 of the Society to hold office until the next ensuing annual general meeting. 

 Good wine needed no bush, and it was not necessary to use words in commend- 

 ing the resolution. Lord Northbrook's name was too well known to need 

 commendation. His Lordship's interest in agriculture was second to none, and, 

 having had the honour of being associated with him in many agricultural 

 projects, he could with great assurance refer to the success attending those 

 operations, which success had been largely due to the personality of the noble- 

 man, who he was quite sure they would honour themselves by electing their 

 President. He begged to propose the resolution. 



Mr. Llewellyn T. E. Llewellyn (Basingstoke) begged to second the 

 resolution, and had very great pieasm'e in doing so. He had to do with a 

 Committee of which, he believed, his Lordship was Chairman, and a more 

 delightful Committee to work with he did not know, and the reason was largely 

 that his Lordship was Chairman of it. 



The resolution was carried by acclamation. 



