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meetings. At the end of 1888 he was elected Chairman of the Club 
for 1889, and presided at each of the meetings held during that 
year. The annual dinner of the Club and the Council Meeting of 
the Royal Agricultural Society, held in the Smithfield week, were 
his last public appearances. Those who knew him well thought 
that he had seldom seemed more vigorous, buoyant, and cheerful ; 
and the writer well remembers the spirit with which he entered into 
the interesting discussions of the Education Committee of the 
Society held in that week, at which he took the chair. About a 
week later, however, he appeared to have caught a cold, and was 
confined to his house, which he never left again. At first no serious 
alarm was felt ; but on January 17 graver symptoms were developed, 
on the 26th danger became imminent, and on the 30th the end 
came. The news of his unexpected and premature death came as a 
great blow to all his colleagues, and the President (Lord Moreton) 
at the Meeting of Council held on February 5 expressed the universal 
regret of the Council at his loss. 
By the death of Mr. Little the Council has indeed been deprived 
of one of its most active, energetic, and devoted Members. His 
wise counsels were always in request at Hanover Square ; and his 
opinion invariably carried great weight in Committee, as that of a 
practical, sensible, and eminently clear-headed man. No one ever 
asked for his help and assistance in vain. He was always accessible, 
always sympathetic, always constructively helpful ; and it is no 
mere form of words to say that his death leaves a perceptible gap, 
which it will be difficult to fill up. E. C. 
M. F. Robiou de la Trehonnais. 
M. de la Trehonnais, who had been a member of this Society 
since 1854, died at the Chateau de Saron, Marne, on the last day of 
1889. M. Trehonnais was a frequent visitor to the Society's Shows, 
and wrote many reports upon them for French periodicals. His 
best-remembered appearance in this country was at the Chelmsford 
Meeting of 1856. At that Meeting there were classes for foreign 
cattle and sheep, which could only be competed for by animals bred 
abroad ; and quite a large deputation of French, Belgian, Sw r iss, and 
other foreign agriculturists, including M. Trehonnais and our dis- 
tinguished Honorary Member, M. Tisserand, were present at the 
annual dinner which it was then the custom to hold. Enthusiasm 
appears to have been the order of the day on this occasion ; for we 
read that the Duke of Richmond was "greeted with an immense 
burst of cheering, which was continued for several minutes," and 
that " tremendous applause and three times three " followed M. Tre- 
honnais' long and eloquent speech, delivered in English, in which he 
called upon the 1,000 gentlemen assembled, " to whatever nation 
you belong, whatever may be your social position, and whatever 
your influence, upstanding as in the presence of majesty, to raise 
from the inmost recesses of your hearts a mighty shout of ' Hail and 
Success to the Royal Agricultural Society of England.'" 
