Ixxxiv Monthly Council, July 29, 1891. 
month ended June 30, 1891, as certi- 
iied by the Society's accountants, 
showed receipts amounting to 2.2-llZ. 
19s. lit?., and expenditure to 7,476/. 
lis. 9(Z. The balance at the Bankers' 
on June 30, allowing for cheques 
outstanding, was 2,053Z. 9s. M. The 
accounts for the period ended July 
2.5, 1891, were also presented. They 
showed receipts amounting to 11,836Z. 
8s. 2d., and expenditure to 1,88GZ. 
9s. 9(Z., with a balance at the bank, 
allowing for cheques outstanding, 
of 12,005^. 7s. M. Accounts relating 
to the recent Doncaster Meeting, 
amounting in all to 11,671L 6s. id., 
and relating to the ordinary business 
of the Society, amounting to 3,083/. 
Os. id., had been passed, and were 
submitted for payment. The quar- 
terly statement of subscriptions, 
arrears, and of the Society's property 
had been laid upon the table. The 
Committee recommended that the 
names of one Foundation Life Gov- 
ernor (Mr. Frederick W. Calvert, Q. C, 
elected a member on February 
13, 1839), eight life members, and 
twenty-nine annual members who 
■were deceased, seven whose subscrip- 
tions were in arrear, and thirty-nine 
who had resigned (eighty-four in all) 
be struck oti the Society's books ; 
also that three members be reinstated 
under Bye-law 12. 
On the motion of Sir Nigel 
KiNGSCOTE, it was unanimously re- 
solved : — 
That, in view of the desirable- 
ness of winding up the accounts of 
the Doncaster Meeting as early 
as possible, authority be given to 
the President, the Chairman of the 
Finance Comiuittce, and the Secre- 
tary to issue, during the recess, 
orders on the Society's Bankers for 
the payment of accounts connected 
with the Meeting, such accounts to 
have been previously submitted to 
and passed by a Steward of 
Finance. 
House. 
Sir Nigel Kingscote (Chairman) 
presented the recommendations of 
this Committee as to the various 
repairs and the repainting of the 
Society's offices. Mr. Walter Gilbey 
had been added to the Committee. 
International Congress of 
Hygiene. 
Sir Nigel Kingscote asked that 
he might be allowed at that juncture 
to draw the attention of the Council 
to the International Congress of 
Hygiene, which was to sit in London 
the week after next. As the Council 
might be aware, he had undertaken 
the duties of President of one of the 
Sections — viz., "The Relations of the 
Diseases of Animals to those of Man," 
in which papers of great value and 
interest to agriculturists would be 
read. Copies of the programme had 
been laid upon the table, and he need 
hardly say that they should welcome 
the presence at their discussions of 
any member of the Council or of the 
Society. 
Journal. 
Earl Cathcaet (Chairman) pre- 
sented the recommendations of this 
Committee as to various payments 
in connection with the printing of 
the Journal, the Doncaster catalogue 
and awiirds, miscellaneous printing, 
stationery, books, &c. The Com- 
mittee recommended that Mr. White- 
head's article in the current number 
of the Journal on " Methods of Pre- 
venting and Checking the Attacks of 
Insects and Fungi " be reprinted, and 
issued by the Society as a sixpenny 
pamphlet. William Chisholme having 
been recommended by the Judges of 
Farms for a certificate of dis- 
tinguished merit in the discharge of 
his duties as shepherd for twenty-six 
years on the farm of Mr. T. H, 
Hutchinson, the Committee recom- 
mended that the usual certificate be 
awarded to him, accompanied by a 
gratuity of 21. The Secretary had 
submitted a list of prizes proposed to 
be given by the Warwick Local Com- 
mittee for Farms, in connection with 
the Country Meeting of 1892, together 
with the draft regulations. These 
had been considered, and referred to 
the General Warwick Committee. 
The proposed arrangements for the 
next number of the Journal had been 
considered and approved. An appli- 
cation for free copies of the Journal 
from the Division of Records and 
Editing of the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture had been granted. 
The Committee had approved of 
