10 The Foundation of the Royal Agricultural Society. 
exception to the distinction between the words Governor and 
Member. The Chairman explained, however, that there was no 
intention to cast any slur upon anyone ; that they required 
large pecuniary resources to make the Society effective ; and 
that, although they might doubtless have secured a large 
capital by inviting unlimited donations, they preferred the 
proposal embodied in the resolution. After some further 
remarks the amendment was withdrawn, and the resolution was 
agreed to, as were also one (moved by Earl Fitzwilliam and 
seconded by Mr. Philip Pusey, M.P.) determining that annual 
meetings should be held successively in different parts of 
England and Wales ; another (on the motion of the Earl of 
Chichester, seconded by Mr. E. S. Cayley, M.P.) for the appoint- 
ment of a Provisional Committee to frame rules and regulations, 
and appoint officers, and to report to a meeting of the subscribers 
to be held at the same place on June 27 ; and a third (proposed 
by Lord Portman and seconded by Sir P. Lawley, Bart.) 
nominating all the Governors, together with the following 
gentlemen, as members of the said Committee, with power to 
add to their number: — Sir Harry Verney, Bart., Sir Richard 
Jodrell, Bart., Rev. J. R. Smythies, Messrs. J. Raymond Barker, 
Boyes, W. J. Cross, J. Ellman, T. Ellman, Green, G. Webb 
Hall, Halsted, Hillyard, Ide, J. Kinder, H. Gaily Knight, 
C. Marshall, J. Paterson, E. Pell, J. B. Philips, Rusbridger, 
Sadler, H. Sadler, J. Tattersall, Thos. Weeding, Wiluiot, and 
J. Wood. The final resolution (moved by Mr. E. A. Sanford, 
M.P. , and seconded by Mr. J. Barneby, M.P.) appointed Messrs. 
Drummond as the Society's bankers. Lord Spencer then an- 
nounced that he had received a letter from the Duke of Welling- 
ton regretting his inability to attend, and enclosing a Life 
Governor's subscription of 50/. ; and this memorable meeting- 
was brought to a conclusion by a hearty vote of thanks to the 
noble Chairman (in this case no formal compliment) on the 
motion of Lord Eliot, seconded by Mr. W. Miles, M.P. 
The resolutions adopted at this meeting were duly advertised, 
and a notification was appended to the effect that before June 
27 all persons might become members on payment of their sub- 
scriptions, but that subsequently members would have to be 
elected by the Committee. We have it on the authority of the 
late Lord Portman, in a letter addressed by him to the writer, 
that he himself was the first to pay in his subscription at Drum- 
mond's, and he therefore had some pride in regarding himself as 
the oldest member de facto. 
But in the meantime the dissentient voices, which had dis- 
turbed the harmony of the proceedings just recorded, found 
