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AT THE 
ANNUAL GENEEAL MEETING 
OF 
GOVEENOES AND MEMBEES, 
TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1888, 
EARL CATHCART (TRUSTEE) IN THE CHAIR. 
1. The Trustees and Vice-Presidents, together with the 25 re- 
tiring Members of Council, were re-elected. 
2. The following Resolution was put from the Chair and carried 
unanimously : — 
The Royal Agricultural Society of England, in 
general meeting assembled, receive with gratitude and 
high appreciation the announcement that, during the 
Society's coming Jubilee year, Her Majesty the Queen 
has been most graciously pleased to accept the office oj 
President of the Society. The report of the Council 
conveying Her Majesty's most gracious condescension 
in this matter is hereby received and adopted, and this 
resolution recorded as carried by acclamation. 
3. The Report of the Council was received and adopted, on the 
motion of Mr. H. W. Woolff, seconded by Mr. Fredk. King. 
4. Various suggestions made by Members were referred to the 
Council for consideration. 
5. A vote of thanks to the Chairman was unanimously passed, on 
the motion of Surgeon-General Ince, seconded by Mr. Yates Free- 
body, 
