Ixxiv 
Monthly Council, June 3, 1891. 
ment Yard was completed, that a 
number of exhibits were in position, 
and that others were daily arriving. 
The horse-boxes and stock-sheds and 
other departments were in a very 
forward state. 
Selection. 
On the motion of Eael Cathcaet, 
seconded by Mr. Mainwaking, Major 
W. T. E. Fosbery, of AVarwick, was 
unanimously appointed the Steward 
of Forage for the Warwick Meeting 
of 1892. 
Education. 
Lord MoEETON (Chairman) pre- 
sented a detailed report (see page 407) 
by the Education Committee on the 
results of the recent senior examina- 
tion, from which it appeared that 
twenty-one candidates entered, and 
thirteen actually competed, at the 
examinations which took place from 
the 12th to the 16th of May last, and 
that of these thirteen competitors 
nine had satisfied the examiners. 
The Committee had given careful 
attention to the question of the issue 
by the Society of a further series of 
twenty-four diagrams of injurious 
insects, prepared by Miss Georgiana 
Ormerod. Miss E. A. Ormerod had 
had a personal interview with the 
Committee, and, on behalf of her 
sister, offered to present the copy- 
right of the diagrams to the Society, 
upon the understanding that the out- 
of-pocket expenses incurred in the 
production of the diagrams be re- 
funded by the Society. The Com- 
mittee advised the Council to arrange 
with Miss Ormerod for the transfer- 
ence to the Society of the diagrams 
in question upon the terms proposed, 
and recommended that the thanks 
of the Society be given to Miss 
Ormerod and her sister for their 
generosit}' in the matter. 
Lord MOEETON, in presenting this 
report, said he desired to draw the 
attention of the Council to the fact 
that two of the prize-winners at the 
Senior Examination were young men 
under age. Mr. Edric Drucc, who 
had won the second prize, had a 
hereditary connection with the So- 
ciety. His great-grandfather and 
grandfather had both been original 
members, and had served on the 
Council ; and his father was the 
Honorary Secretary of the original 
Education Committee of the Society 
appointed a quarter of a century ago, 
and was well known to them all as the 
Secretary of the Farmers' Club. Mr. 
Edric Druce now joined the Society 
at the age of nineteen, under the 
most honourable circumstances, and 
he was believed to be the first in- 
stance in their experience of a fourth 
generation of uninterrupted associa- 
tion with the Society. Mr. Lister, 
aged 15, the fourth prize-winner, was 
the youngest candidate who had ever 
won a prize in their Senior Examina- 
tion, lie was the son of a miner, 
and, as a scholar of Aspatria, gained 
one of the Society's Junior Scholar- 
ships last November, coming out at 
the top of the list. He had now fol- 
lowed up this success by gaining a 
position in the Senior Examination, 
which must be regarded as highly 
creditable to himself and to the in- 
stitution by which he was prepared. 
Suggestion made at General Meeting. 
The Council then considered the 
suggestion made by Mr. Frederick 
King at the General Meeting on 
May 22, viz., That more attention 
sJioidd be paid by the Society to the 
education of the agricultural labourer. 
It was decided that the answer 
of the Council should be that the 
Education Committee had already in 
hand the preparation of an agricul- 
tural text book for use in elementary 
schools in rural districts, and tliat 
they did not consider it advisable for 
the Society to take steps in the ex- 
tensive direction suggested by Mr. 
King. 
Hiscellaneons. 
A letter from the Imperial Insti- 
tute, asking the Council to nominate 
a representative upon the permanent 
governing body, was considered, and 
it was, on the motion of Earl Cath- 
caet, seconded by Lord Bridpobt, 
resolved to nominate the President 
of the Society for the time being to 
act ex officio in this capacity. 
Various other matters having been 
dealt with, the Council adjourned till 
Tuesday, June 23, at 2.30 p.m., in 
the Showyard at Doncastor ; and it 
was at the same time arranged to 
have a daily meeting of the Council on 
the other days of the show at 1 p.m. 
