Deputation from Royal Counties Agricultural Society. cv 
address, and twenty-three in arrears 
(108 in all), be struck off the Society's 
books : also that two members be rein- 
stated under Bye-law 12. 
In presenting this report, Sir Nigel 
Kixgscote observed that the Council 
would notice that a somewhat con- 
siderable number of deaths, especially 
of life members, were recorded by the 
Finance Committee that day. The 
large number of life members arose 
from the operation of the Bye-law (5) 
which required life members to give 
receipts for the Journal at periodical 
intervals as required by the Council. 
The Committee thought the issue of 
the first number of the new quarterly 
Journal a convenient opportunity for 
putting this requirement into force ; 
and although there had been a few 
complaints from life members on the 
subject, the Council might, he thought, 
regard themselves as amply justified 
in asking life members to give the 
same evidence of their continued exist- 
ence as the receipt of the annual 
subscription afforded in the case of 
ordinary members, when they found 
that in three months the deaths of 
more than seventy members had come 
to light, which probably would other- 
wise have remained undiscovered by 
the Society for some considerable 
time. The representatives of deceased 
members received and accepted, no 
doubt unthinkingly, Journals, tickets 
for the Shows, and other communica- 
tions from the Society which were of 
course personal to the deceased mem- 
ber, and to which no one else could 
possibly be entitled. At the meetings 
of Council held on May 7th and June 
4th, a total of fifty life members 
were reported as being dead, and of 
these thirty-one were notified in re- 
sponse to the circular sent out 
with the Journal in April last. One 
member still on the books was found 
to have been dead ten years, and 
another " many years," the remainder 
falling into the average of from one 
to two years. Out of forty-five life 
members whose deaths were reported 
by the Finance Committee that day, 
no less than forty were brought to 
light by means of a second circular 
sent out with the programme for the 
Plymouth Meeting to those life mem- 
bers who had not answered the circular 
of April. Of these, one member had 
been dead seven years, and a large 
proportion from one to two years ; 
while a few of the circulars had been 
returned through the Post Office 
endorsed " Addressee deceased." A 
considerable number of life members 
still remained who had answered 
neither 'the first nor the second circu- 
lar. As the proportion of deaths 
notified was less than 1 per cent, 
after the first circular, and was five 
per cent, after the second circular, it 
was only reasonable to suppose that 
an appreciable number of deaths still 
remained to be notified amongst the 
members from whom no receipts had 
yet been received. These cases would 
be dealt with during the autumn. An 
incidental advantage of great import- 
ance had been gained through the 
issue of the forms of receipt, as an 
enormous number of alterations in, 
and changes of, addresses had been 
notified to the Society, which could 
not fail to facilitate the safe and 
speedy delivery to members of subse- 
quent numbers of the Journal. 
Sir Nigel Kingscote then moved, 
and it was unanimously resolved : — 
That in view of the desirableness 
of winding up the accounts of the 
Plymouth Meeting as early as pos- 
sible, authority be given to the 
President, the Chairman of the 
Finai'.te Committee, and the Secre- 
tary, to issue during the recess 
orders on the Society's Bankers for 
the payment of accounts connected 
with the Meeting, such accounts to 
have been previously submitted to 
and passed by a Steward of Finance . 
House. 
Sir Nigel Kingscote (Chairman) 
reported that the new bookcase 
ordered had been erected during the 
absence of the staff at Plymouth. 
Certain works of drainage had become 
necessary in the house, and an account 
for such "works was presented for pay- 
ment. Sanction had been given for 
various new articles to be purchased 
for the house in place of others worn 
out. 
Journal. 
Earl Cathcart (Chairman) re- 
ported that the second number of the 
new series of the Journal, and the 
index to the second series, had been 
