WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1890. 
LORD MORETON (PRESIDENT) IN THE CHAIR. 
Present : 
trustees. — Earl Cathcart, Sir Nigel 
Kingscote. K.C.B.. Sir A. K. Mac- 
donald, Bart.. Earl of Powis. Sir 
Matthew White Ridley, Bart., M.P. 
Vice-Presidents. — Earl of Fevers- 
ham, Right Hon. Sir Massey Lopes. 
Bart., Sir John Thorold, Bart., Mr. C. 
Whitehead. 
Other Members of Council. — 
Mr. G. M. Allender, Mr. J. H. Ark- 
\\ right, Mr. J. Bowen-Jones. Mr. J. A. 
I laird, Mr. Chandos-Pole-Gell. Earl of 
Coventry. Mr. C. de L. F. De Laune, 
Viscount Emlyn. Mr. William Frank- 
ish, Mr. Hugh Gorringe, Mr. Anthony 
Hamond. Mr. James Hornsby, Mr. 
Charles Howard, Mr. C. S. Mainwar- 
intr. Mr. Joseph Martin, Hon. Cecil 
T. Parker, Mr. Albert Pell, Mr. Daniel 
Pidgeon, the Duke of Portland, Mr. 
J. E. Ransome, Mr. James Rawlence, 
Mr. Samuel Rowlandsoii, Mr. G. H. 
Sunday, Mr. W. T. Scarth. Mr. Henry 
Smith, the Marquis of Stafford. Mr. 
Martin J. Sutton. Mr. R. A. Warren. 
Mr. E. V. V. Wheeler. Mr. C. W. 
Wilson. Sir Jacob Wilson. 
Officers. — Mr. Ernest Clarke. Sec- 
retary and Editor; Mr. W. Car- 
mothers, F.R.S.. Consulting Botanist ; 
Mr. E. W. Voelcker. Acting Consulting 
Chemist ; Mr. Wilson Bennison. Sur- 
veyor. 
The following members of the 
Plymouth Local Commit lee were also 
present: Mr. Edward St. Aubyn and 
Mr. R. B. Johns. Secretary of the 
Local Committee. 
The minutes of the Council held on 
February 5 last were read and con- 
firmed. 
Surviving Members of the English 
Agricultural Society. 
The President then observed that, 
before commencing the ordinary busi- 
ness of the day, he desired to recall 
for a few moments to the memory of 
the Council the fact that thai day was 
practically the end of the first half- 
century of the Society's corporate 
existence. On March 6, 1840, the 
Marquis of Normanby, who was then 
Secretary of State for the Home 
Department, wrote to the Duke of 
Richmond, as President of the English 
Agricultural Society, to acquaint his 
Grace that, having laid before Her 
Majesty the Queen the petition of the 
President, Trustees, Vice-Presidents, 
Governors, and Members of the 
English Agricultural Society, praying 
for Her Majesty's patronage of the 
Society, and also for a Charier, Her 
Majesty had been graciously pleased 
to comply with the prayer of the 
petition, both as to the patronage 
and grant of a Charter, and further 
to allow the Society to be called 
Royal. Although the actual date on 
which the Great Seal was affixed 
to the Charter was March 26, the 
Society might fairly regard itself as 
having been an incorporated body 
since March G, 1840. and thus they 
met together that morning on what 
was virtually the last day of the 
Society's fiftieth year of existence as 
an incorporated body. He (Lord 
Moreton) was sure the Council would 
desire that on the completion of the 
Society's first half-century of life, 
those who happily survived of the 
original founders of the Society, and 
who were the pioneers of its success- 
ful working, should receive some 
small compliment at their hands. He 
had, therefore, the greatest pleasure 
in moving that the forty-two surviving 
subscribers to the English Agricultural 
Society who were on its books when 
the Charter was granted in March 
1840, and who had been connected 
with the Royal Agricultural Society 
ever since, be elected Foundation 
Life Governors of the Society. It 
would be gratifying to the Council to 
know that no less than three of its 
