ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
pioceeMngs of tbe Council 
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1890. 
LORD MORETON (PRESIDENT) IN THE CHAIR. 
Present : — 
Trustees. — The Duke of Richmond 
and Gordon, K.G., Earl Cathcart, Mr. 
J. D. Dent, Sir Nigel Kingscote, 
K.C.B., Sir A. K. Macdonald, Bart. 
Vice-Presidents. — Right Hon. Sir 
Massev Lopes, Bart., Mr. Walter Gil- 
bey, Sir John Thorold, Bart., Mr. C. 
Whitehead. 
Other Jfemhcrsnf Council. — H.R.H. 
Prince Christian, E.G., Mr. G. M. 
Allender, Mr. J. H. Arkwright, Mr. 
J. Bowen-Jones, Mr. J. A. Caird, Mr. 
Chandos- Pole- G ell. Mr. Charles Clay, 
Earl of Coventry, Mr. Percv E. Crutch- 
ley, Mr. Alfred' Darby, Mr. C. do L. 
F. De Laune, Viscount Emlyn, Mr. S. 
P. Foster, Mr. William Frankish. Mr. 
James Hornsbv, Mr. T. H. Miller. Mr. P. 
A. Muntz,M.P".,Hon Cecil T. Parker, 
Mr. Albert Pell, Mr. Daniel Pidgeon, 
Mr. J. E. Ransome. Mr. G. H. Sanday, 
Mr. W.T. Scaith, Mr. Alfred J. Smith, 
Mr. Henry Smith, Sir Joseph Spear- 
man, Bart., the Marquis of Stafford, 
Mr. R. Stratton, Mr. Martin J. Sutton, 
Mr. Garrett Taylor, Mr. R. A. Warren, 
Mr. E. V. V. AVheeler, Mr. C. W. 
Wilson, Sir Jacob Wilson. 
Officers. — Mr. Ernest Clarke, Sec- 
retary and Editor; Mr. E. W. Voelcker, 
Acting Consulting Chemist ; Mr. 
Wilson Bennison, Surveyor. 
The following members of the 
Plymouth Local Committee were also 
present : the Mayor of Plymouth and 
Mr. Edward St, Aubyn. 
The minutes of the Council held 
on December 11 last were read and 
confirmed. 
Death of a Member of Council. 
The President said that before 
the ordinary business of the day was 
commenced it was his melancholy 
duty to announce officially the death 
of one of their most esteemed col- 
leagues. Mr. Herbert J. Little. Mr. 
Little had been for more than eight 
years a member of the Council, and 
during the whole of that time had 
worked actively and energetically on 
behalf of the Society. He was a man 
of exceptional ability, and he (Lord 
Moreton) was sure that he was only 
expressing the feeling of every mem- 
ber in that room when lie said that 
the Society had lost in Mr. Little one 
of its most able and active members. 
Election of New Members. 
The election of the following fifty- 
six members was then proceeded 
with :— 
Battams, George B.. .Kilworthy, Tavistock. 
BLAXKY,W. C. .Penniare, Vcrj-an, Graniponnd 
Road, Cornwall. 
Bi.axp, J. L.. . Blandsfort, Abheyleix, Queen's 
Co., Ireland. 
Boog, T. Elliot.. Tehidy Office, Camborne, 
Cornwall. 
B> icltox, H. W. . . The Leys Farm, Alveehurch, 
Worcester. 
BotJLTOH, J.B.. .Alveehurch, Worcester. 
B yrd, David E. . . Spurstow Hal 1, Tarporley, 
Cheshire. 
Calthbop, F. Cecil. .Briars Cottage, Formby, 
Liverpool. 
Capet., Arthur. . Bullnnd Lodge,Wiveliscombe, 
Somerset. 
CAimrxfiTON-.W. H. . .Friquet,Castel, Guernsey. 
Cl.ARK, Henrv Frampton Mansell, Stroud. 
CODDrxGTOX, Lt.-Col. J. N"..01d Bridge, Dro- 
gheda, co. Heath, Ireland. 
Cook, N. . . Chevithorne Barton, Tiverton. 
Coote, C. J... Mount Coote, Kilmallock, co. 
Limerick, Ireland. 
