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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1891. 
THE EARL OF RAVENSWORTH (PRESIDENT) IN THE CHAIR. 
Present : — 
Triisiec/t.— General Viscount Brid- 
port, K.C.B., Earl Cathcart, Mr. John 
Dent Dent, Colonel Sir Nigel Kings- 
cote, K.C.B., Sir A. K. Macdonald, 
Bart. 
Vice-Presidents. — Earl of Fever- 
sham, Right Hon. Sir Massey Lopes, 
Bart., Lord Moreton, Sir John 
Thorold, Bart., Mr. C. Whitehead. 
Other Members of Council. — Mr. G. 
M. Allender, Mr. Alfred Ashworth, 
Mr. Joseph Beach, Mr. J. Bowen- 
Jones, Lord Brougham and Vaux, 
Mr. J. A. Caird, Mr. Charles Clay, 
Lieutenant-Colonel J. F. Curtis-Hay- 
ward, Mr. Alfred Darby, Mr. C. Do L. 
Faunce De Laune, Mr. S. P. Foster, 
Mr. William Frankish, Mr. James 
Hornsby, Mr. Charles Howard, Mr. 
C. S. Mainwaring, Mr. Joseph Martin, 
Mr. Albert Pell, Mr. Daniel Pidgeon, 
Mr. S. Kowlandson, Mr. G. H. Sanday, 
Mr. W. T. Scarth, Sir J. L. E. Spear- 
man, Bart., Mr. J. P. Terry, Mr. John 
Tremayne, Mr. R. A. W^arren, Mr. E. 
V. V. Wheeler, Sir Jacob Wilson. 
Mr. A. C. Cope, of the Board of 
Agriculture. 
Officers. — Mr. Ernest Clarke, Sec- 
retary and Editor ; Professor J. B. 
Simonds, Consulting Veterinary Sur- 
geon ; Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker, 
Consulting Chemist. 
The following members of the 
Doncaster Local Committee were also 
present : The Mayor of Doncaster 
(Mr. Alderman Stockil), Mr. J. Firth 
Clark, Mr. F. Bacon Frank, Mr. John 
White, Mr. G. T. Wood, Mr. G. B. C. 
Yarborough, and Mr. George Chafer 
(Secretary of the Local Committee). 
Apolo^es for Non- Attendance. 
Apologies for non-.attendance were 
announced from H.R.H. Prince Chris- 
tian, K.G., the Duke of Richmond 
and Gordon, KG., the Earl of 
Coventry, Viscount Emlyn, Hon. 
Cecil T. Parker, Sir Matthew Ridley, 
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Bart., M.P., Mr. Walter Gilbey, BIr. 
Henry Smith, Mr. E. W. Stanyforth, 
and Mr. Garrett Taylor. 
Death of the Earl of Powis. 
The minutes of the last Council 
meeting, held on May C, having been 
read and confirmed, 
The President said it had already 
been his painful duty as President to 
announce to the Council the loss by 
death of one of the Trustees of the 
Society, the Duke of Bedford, and 
it now devolved upon him to report 
officially to the:n the death of another 
of their mostdistinguished colleagues, 
the Earl of Powis, who had been a 
member of their body for the long 
period of thirty-five years. Elected 
as a Member of Council in June, 185G, 
Lord Powis speedily took an active 
share in all the different departments 
of the Society's work, and in 1860, he 
was elected President for the year 
1860-61. His Presidential year was 
marked by the most successful show, 
both in point of attendance and 
finance, that had ever been held up to 
that time ; and members of Council 
who were present at their meeting 
held in March, 1890, would remember 
his vivid description of the scene at 
the turnstiles at the Leeds Show of 
1861. At the end of that year his 
Lordship was elected a Trustee of the 
Society, and had held that position 
ever since. Lord Powis was an 
original member of the Education 
Committee, which had had recently 
so important a development ; and up 
to the end of his useful life, he took 
the greatest interest in the cause of 
agricultural education. Acting upon 
what he felt confident would be their 
unanimous wisli, that the Council 
should be officially represented at 
Lord Powis' funeral, he (Lord Ravens- 
worth) had requested their colleague 
Mr. Mainwaring, who shared with 
Lord Powis the representation of 
Wales, to be so kind as to act for the 
Society in that capacity ; and in the 
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