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lprocce&ino6 at 52nb Hmuvcrear^ riDeetino of 
Governors ant) flDcnibcrs. 
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1891. 
THE EASL OF KAVENSWORTH (PEESIDENT) IN THE CHAIK. 
Present :— 
Members of Council. — H.E.H. Prince 
Christian, K.G., Earl Cathcart, the 
Earl of Feversham, Messrs. G. Mander 
AUender, James A. Caird, Percy. E. 
Crutchley, C. De L. F. De Laune, 
Henry Smith, John Tremayne, and 
C. W. Wilson. 
Governor. — Mr. Thomas G. Benn. 
Honorary Memler. — Professor G. T. 
Brown, C.B. 
Members. — Mr. J. A. L. Beasley, 
Captain John C. Best, Messrs. Horace 
F. Cox, Thomas Dunn, Captain E. 
Pennell Elmhirst, Messrs. Edwin 
Foden, Frederick King, ColinjlMacIver, 
W. Newzam Nicholson, Frank Proctor, 
R. Henry Rew, A. Seth-Smith, G. F. 
Sheppard, W. Tinning, Sir W.Vincent, 
Bart., Messrs E. W. Voelcker, Jonas 
M. Webb, &c. 
Officers. — Mr. Ernest Clarke, Secre- 
tary and Editor ; Dr. J. Augustus 
Voelcker, Consulting Chemist. 
The Secbetaey having read the 
Bye-Law governing the transaction 
of business at the anniversary meet- 
ings, it was moved by Captain Elm- 
HIEST, seconded by Captain Best, 
and unanimously resolved that the 
Earl of Feversham be elected Presi- 
dent of the Society for the year ensu- 
ing the Doncaster Meeting. 
The Earl of Feversham, in ex- 
pressing his sincere thanks for the 
high honour the Society had conferred 
upon him, in electing him President 
for the year ensuing the Doncaster 
Meeting, said he need not remind 
them that the Royal Agricultural 
Society had carried on for more than 
fifty yeai-s a great and benefi- 
cent work in this country ; and he 
might say that it had beea the pioneer 
if not the originator of all those great 
improvements which had taken place 
during that period . 
At their Annual Exhibitions, inven 
tions calculated to assist the farmei 
had been exposed to public criticism 
and brought to the test of practical 
experience. So well had the Society 
acted up to its motto of " Practice 
with Science " that the result, he did 
not doubt, had been " Progress with 
Safety." It was not too much to say 
that, under the auspices of that great 
Society, British Agriculture had been 
greatly improved, and that it had con- 
ferred upon the important indu.stry in 
which they were engaged, and there- 
fore upon the country at large, im- 
mense benefits. To have had a share, 
however small, in the great work of 
that Society was, he thought, a source 
of satisfaction to every member of it, 
and to every one who was engaged in 
its work. (Hear, hear.) And to be 
called upon to preside over its delibe- 
rations was an honour which, he need 
not say, he should highly value. In 
again thanking them, he would only 
express the hope that he might be 
able, in the discharge of the duties of 
the Presidential Chair, to follow in 
the footsteps and to imitate the ex- 
ample of his able and distinguished 
predecessors, in a manner which should 
meet with their approval and merit 
their confidence and esteem. (Cheers.) 
The Trustees and Vice - Presidents 
were then re-elected bj" show of hands, 
the Chairman making sympathetic 
reference to the losses sustained by 
the deaths of the Duke of Bedford 
and the Earl of Powis, two of the 
Society's Trustees. 
The election of twenty-five Mem- 
bers of Council was next proceeded 
with, and the President appointed 
