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Your Council desire that the Society should express 
their best thanks to the outgoing President, Sir John 
Lentaigne, C.B., D.L., for his long-continued and valuable 
services to the Society both as Member of Council and 
President, but are glad to add that, as ex-President, he 
will retain a seat in the Council as an Honorary Member, 
Two other Officers of the Society desire to retire from 
their present positions, Mr. I’, Maxwell Hutton (Treasurer) 
and Rev. Dr. Haughton (Secretary), but the Council 
recommend that they should still give the benefit 
of thei long experience to the incoming Council, 
Mr, Hutton as Vice-President, and Dr. Haughton as 
President, 
Our Annual Dog Show did not produce as large a 
profit as that of last year, chiefly owing to unfavourable 
weather; but the entries of dogs were much larger, and 
the dogs of all descriptions of a better class, 
The following extract from the Report of the Dog 
Show Committee will probably interest the Members :— 
“Your Committee have pleasure in reporting that the Dog 
Show held in the Gardens on August 26th—29th, 1884, has 
resulted in a nett gain to the Society, after payment of all 
expenses, of £60 19s, 4d, 
“The entries, amounting to 481, were considerably in excess 
of the previous year, when the number was 350. Ten of these 
were free under the rule passed by the Council giving the right 
of one entry to each Member. 
“The dogs exhibited were for the most part of a high class, 
and the arrangements of the tent, benching, &c., were satisfactorily 
carried out by Messrs. Hopkins & Co. of Bristol. 
** Messrs. Lowe, Vicary, and Gresham, acted as Judges, and 
no objections were entered regarding their decisions. 
“The dogs were all safely returned to their respective 
destinations, and no claims have been lodged for delay, damage, 
or loss. 
‘The energy exhibited by Mr. Snow in carrying out all the 
