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WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1890. 
THE EARL OF RAVENSWORTH (PRESIDENT) IN THE CHAIR 
Present 
Trustees. — Right Hon. Sir Thomas 
Dyke Acland, Bart., Earl Cathcart, 
Sir Nigel Kingscote, K.C.B., Earl of 
Powis. 
Vice-Presidents. — Earl of Fever- 
sham, Earl of Lathom, Right Hon. 
Sir Massey Lopes, Bart., Sir J. H. 
Thorold, Bart., Mr. C. Whitehead. 
Other Members of Council. — Mr. G. 
M. Allender, Mr. J. Bowen-Jones, 
Lord Brougham and Vaux, Mr. James 
A. Caird, Mr. Chandos-Pole-Gell, Earl 
of Coventry, Mr. Percy Crutchley, Mr. 
C. de L. Faunce de Laurie, Viscount 
Emlyn, Mr. William Frankish, Mr. 
Hugh Gorringe, Mr. Charles Howard, 
Mr. C. S. Mainwaring, Mr. T. H. 
Miller, Mr. Albert Pell, Mr. James 
Rawlence, Mr. G. H. Sanday, Mr. W. 
T. Scarth, Mr. A. J. Smith, Mr. Henry 
Smith, Mr. Garrett Taylor, Mr. Jos. 
P. Terry, 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. E. W. Voelcker, 
Acting Consulting Chemist. 
The following members of the Don- 
caster Local Committee were also 
present : — The Mayor of Doncaster, Mr. 
F. Bacon- Frank, Alderman Stockil, 
Mr. John White, Mr. G. T. Wood, Mr. 
G. B. C. Yarborough, and Mr. George 
Chafer (Secretary). 
The minutes of the last monthly 
meeting of the Council, held in the 
Showyard at Plymouth on the 25th 
June, and of the Special Councils 
held on the 26th and 27th June, were 
read and confirmed. 
The minutes of the Special Councils 
recorded various decisions upon points 
of detail connected with the Plymouth 
Show, and suggestions made by the 
Stewards of Stock which were referred 
to the Stock Prizes Committee for con- 
sideration. 
Extension of leave to Consulting 
Chemist. 
The President said that, as a 
matter of urgency, he must ask the 
permission of the Council to allow 
him to interpose before the ordinary 
business commenced, in order to read 
a telegram which had been received 
at the India Office from the Govern- 
ment of India, asking that the 
Society's consent might be obtained 
to an extension for a further period 
of two months of the year's leave 
of absence which the Council had 
granted to their Consulting Chemist, 
Dr. Voelcker. Dr. Voelcker, as they 
were aware, was now engaged in 
India upon a Government inquiry, of 
great complexity and importance, ; s 
to the best course to be adopted for 
the improvement of Indian Agricul- 
ture by scientific means. The Indian 
Government, to whom the Society had 
lent the services of Dr. Voelcker at 
the instance of Sir James Caird, 
telegraphed that they were anxious 
that he should complete his report 
'before his departure, and they pro- 
posed that he should leave for England 
by the first steamer in January, which 
would enable him to attend the 
Society's Council meeting to be held 
in February. He thought the Council 
would probably be willing to accede 
to the application, and to extend Dr. 
Voelcker's leave of absence until the 
end of January next. 
Viscount Emlyn said that the 
Chemical Committee had not had an 
opportunity of considering this appli- 
cation, as it was received after their 
sitting yesterday, but he thought he 
might venture to say in their name 
that they would raise no objection to 
the extension of Dr. Voelcker's leave 
of absence, and he hoped the Council 
would accede to it, as the work of the 
laboratory was being carried on en- 
tirely to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee by the Acting Chemist. 
