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be elected President of the Society 
for the ensuing year, saying- that he 
was quite sure that the meeting would 
accept this proposal with acclamation. 
Lord Havensworth had been connected 
with agriculture all his life, and he 
had been a member of the Koyal Agri- 
cultural Society since the year 18G7. 
He was contident that the proposal 
which he submitted would meet with 
the approbation, not only of all pre- 
sent, but of the whole agricultural 
community throughout the United 
Kingdom. (Cheers.) 
Mr. Thomas Stirton having briefly 
seconded the motion, it was put to 
the meeting by the President, and 
declared earned unanimously. 
The Earl of Ravensworth, in 
reply, said that it was his highly 
agreeable duty, in the best terms that 
he could, to return his cordial thanks 
for the very great honour they had 
done him in accepting the recom- 
mendation of the Council, and unani- 
mously electing him as President for 
the coming year. He considered it 
the greatest honour which a member 
of that Society could aspire to ; and 
he desired to assure them that as far 
as it lay in his power he would in the 
capacity of President uphold the dig- 
nity of their great and world-appre- 
ciated Society. He congratulated the 
Society upon their good fortune and 
sound judgment in selecting a place 
for the country meeting next year. 
He thought Doncaster was perhaps as 
favourable a spot in the United King- 
dom as any could wish to have been 
selected. It was in the centre of a 
great district of agricultural activity, 
and there were other associations, 
dear to every Englishman, connected 
with the old Town Moor of Doncaster, 
which had made that place a popular 
resort ; and he trusted and hoped that 
the meeting held there would at least 
equal in success, if not exceed, any 
previous meeting of the Society, lie 
returned his most sincere expressions 
of gratitude for the honour which they 
had conferred upon him. (Cheers.) 
The twelve Trustees and twelve 
Vice- Presidents having been re-elected 
by show of hands, the President ap- 
pointed Sir John Heron Maxwell, 
Bart., Mr. S. P>. L. Druce, and Mr. 
John Thornton to act as scrutineers of 
the voting papers for the election of 
twenty -five members of Council. 
These voting papers having been duly 
collected, the President announced, 
when the report of the scrutineers 
had been received, that the twenty- 
three members of Council who retired 
by rotation had been re-elected ; 
and that Lord Brougham and Vaux, 
of Brougham Hall, Penrith, and Mr. 
Joseph Beach, of The Hattons, Wol- 
verhampton, had been chosen to fill 
the two remaining vacancies. 
The Secretary having read the 
report of the Council to the meeting 
(see page 393), 
The adoption of the report was 
moved by Mr. W. W. Glenny, who 
referred with gratification to the in- 
creased number of members, the 
satisfactory state of the finances, the 
bringing of the Society into more fre- 
quent communication with the gene- 
ral body of members by means of a 
quarterly instead of a half-yearly 
journal, and the efforts which the 
Society had made, in concert with 
other agricultural bodies, towards 
placing the slaughter of animals af- 
fected with pleuro-pneumonia under 
Government control, and providing for 
the payment of compensation out of the 
Imperial Exchequer. He deprecated 
the admission of live animals from 
America, thus spreading diseases 
which would prove, and which had 
proved, so baneful to the herds of this 
country. 
Mr. George Barham seconded, 
and suggested that the report should 
be circulated to the members before- 
hand. He criticised the refreshment 
arrangements at the showyard as a 
weak point connected with the Society. 
He suggested that, instead of issuing- 
two catalogues, the implement and 
stock catalogues should be bound to- 
gether. If the new American paper 
were used, the bulk of the book would 
not be greater than the present stock 
or implement catalogue. There would 
be an immense advantage if the par- 
ticulars of the implements exhibited 
were in the hands of everyone who 
took a stock catalogue. There had 
been a great many remarks in the 
papers with reference to the expendi- 
ture and the loss at the Windsor Show. 
He would not treat upon that at length, 
but he would say that no money was 
better laid out than the money spent 
