Mr. PUSEY. 
On the 7th November, on the motion of Lord Portman, seconded 
by Cok)nel Challoner and Mr. Raymond Barker, the following 
resolution was carried unanimously : — 
That a letter be written to the family of the late Philip Pusey, 
Esq., expressing the gratitude of the Royal Agricultural Society 
of England for his services as Chairman of the Journal Com- 
mittee, and their great sorrow for his early death. That it be 
engrossed on vellum, and signed by the President, with the seal 
of the Society attached. 
In pursuance of the above resolution the following letter was 
written by the President : — 
The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 
has directed me, as the President, to assure the family of the 
late Ph. Pusey, Esq., that the Society deeply and unfeignedly 
unite with them in their grief for the irreparable loss which they 
have sustained in the early and lamented death of their beloved 
father. In this bereavement the Council and the Society parti- 
cipate with the surviving and sorrowing members of Mr. Pusey's 
family ; for while the recollection of parental affection and do- 
mestic virtue will long endear his memory to all the members of 
his familj^, his distinguished position when twice elected Pre- 
sident of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and his 
unceasing labours for seventeen years as Chairman of the Journal 
Committee, Avill long be cherished by his surviving colleagues, 
and be remembered with gratitude and respect by every member 
of this Society. 
(Signed) PORTMAN, President. 
On the 12th of December the following reply, addressed to 
the President, was read to the Council : — 
London, Dec. 12tb. 
My Lokd, — The family of the late Mr. Pusey have requested 
me, as one of the executors under his will, to express to your 
Lordship and the Council of the Royal Agricultural Societ}^ of 
England their grateful sense of the sympathy shown to them in 
their bereavement. 
They will not fail to appreciate duly such a communication 
from the Society, remembering how their father cherished the 
memory of Earl Spencer, its first President, and of others with 
whom he had the honour to be associated in its foundation. 
Of Mr. Pusey himself, it will long be remembered that to 
