ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
procccbiUGQ of the CounciL 
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4, 1891. 
THE EARL OF FEVERSHAM (PRESIDENT) IN THE CHAIR. 
Present :— 
Trvstees. — Ear) Cathcart, Mr. John 
Dent Dent, Lord Egerton of Tatton, 
Colonel Sir Nigel Kingscote, K.C.B , 
Sir A. K. Macdonald, Bart. 
Vice-Presidents. — Mr. H. Chandos- 
Pole-Gell, Mr. Walter Gilbey, Lord 
Moreton. 
Other Members of Council. — Mr. G. 
M. Allender, Mr. J. H. Arkwright, 
Mr. Alfred Ashworth, Mr. Joseph 
Beach, Mr. J. A. Caird, Mr. Charles 
Clay, Earl of Coventry, Mr. Percy E. 
Crutchley, Lieut.-Col. J. F. Curtis- 
Hayward, Alfred Darby, Mr. 
Wiiliam Prankish, Mr. Neville Gren- 
ville, Mr. Anthony Hamond, Mr. C. S. 
Mainwaring, Mr. Joseph Martin, INlr. 
T. H. Miller, Hon. Cecil T. Parker, 
Mr. Albert Pell, Mr. Daniel Pidgeon, 
Mr. James Rawlence, Mr. G. H. San- 
day, Mr. A. J. Smith, Mr. Henry 
Smith, Marquis of Stafford, Mr. E. W. 
Stanyforth, Mr. Martin J. Sutton, 
Mr. Garrett Taylor, Mr. J. P. Terry, 
Mr. John Tremayne, Mr. R. A. Warren, 
Mr. E. V. V. Wheeler, Mr. C. W. Wil- 
son, Sir Jacob Wilson. 
Officers. — Mr. Ernest Clarke, Secre- 
tary and Editor ; Dr. J. Augustus 
Voelcker, Consulting Chemist ; Pro- 
fessor J. Beart Simonds, Consulting 
Veterinary Surgeon ; Mr. Wilson Ben- 
nison. Surveyor. 
The following members of the War- 
wick Local Committee were also pre- 
sent : — Lord Brooke, M.P., Lord 
Ernest Seymour, the Mayor of War- 
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wick (Jlr. J. W. Mann), the Town 
Clerk of Warwick (Mr. Brabazon 
Campbell), Major Fosbery, Mr. J. W. 
Margetts, Mr. T. H. G. Newton, and 
Mr. Frederick H. Moore (Secretary of 
the Local Committee). 
Apologies for Non-Attendance. 
Apologies for non-attendance were 
read from the Duke of Richmond and 
Gordon, K.G., the Earl of Ravens- 
worth, Viscount Emlyn, Sir John 
Thorold, Bart., and Mr. Faunce De 
Laune, in consequence of other en- 
gagements : and from Mr. Stratton 
and Mr C. Whitehead, in consequence 
of ill-health. 
The Fire at Sandringham House. 
The minutes of the last monthly 
meeting of the Council, held on July 
29, having been read and approved, 
Mr. Dent, as perhaps the oldest 
member of the Council present, asked 
permission to intervene in order to 
request the President to express to 
their colleague. His Royal Highness 
the Prince of Wales, the deep sym- 
pathy of the Council on the occasion 
of the late fire at Sandringham. All 
those who had had the honour, with 
himself, of receiving His Royal High- 
ness's gracious hospitality at the time 
of the Norwich Show, carried away 
with them when they left, not only 
the happiest remembrances of the 
kindness of the Prince, of the Prin- 
cess, and of their daughters, but also 
the feeling tliat they had been stay- 
ing at what they might call a model 
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