XXIX 
[Copies of the full Report of any of the Council Meetings held during the year 
1907 may he obtained on application to the Secretary, at 16 Bedford Square, 
London, W.C.] 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
fIDinutes of the Council 
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1907. 
At a Monthly Council, held at the Hotel Russell, the Earl of Yaeborough 
(President) in the Chair : — 
Present : — Trustees. — Mr. F. S. W. Cornwallis, the Earl of Coventry, Lord 
Middleton, Lord Moreton, Sir J. H. Thorold, Bart. 
Vice-Presidents. — Mr. J. Bowen-Jones, Mr. Percy Crutchley, the Earl of 
Northbrook. 
Other Jilembers of the Council. — Mr. George Adams, Mr. Charles R. W. 
Adeane, Mr. T. L. AveUng, Mr. S. N. Bankart, Mr. H. D. Brocklehurst, Sir 
Richard P. Cooper, Bart., Sir H. F. de Trafford, Bart., Mr. H. Budding, Mr. 
J. T. C. Eadie, Mr. James Falconer, Mr. J. VV. Glover, Mr. R. M. Greaves, 
Sir Gilbert Greenall, Bart., Mr. J. Harris, Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. A. Hiscock, 
Mr. R. W. Hobbs, Mr. J. Howard Howard, Mr. W. F. Ingram, Mr. Ernest 
Mathews, Mr. W. A. May, Mr. C. Middleton, Mr. T. S. Minton, Mr. Ralph 
Palmer, Mr. C. M. S. Pilkington, Mr. G. G. Rea, Mr. F. Reynard, Mr. C. C. 
Rogers, Mr. E. W. Shackle, Mr. E. W. Stanyforth, Mr. H. Tallent, Mr. George 
Taylor, Mr. John Thornton, Mr. A. P. Turner, and Mr. E. V. V. Wheeler. 
The following Members of the Lincoln Local Committee were also present : — 
Mr. W. Frankish, Mr. C. W. Tindall, and Mr. E. E. Tweed (Local Secretary). 
The minutes of the last meeting of the Council held on Wednesday, 
December 12, 1906, were taken as read and approved. 
Mr. Waldorf Astor, jun., and Mr. A. Cecil Beck, M.P., were elected Governors 
of the Society under By-law 2, and the names of Sir Richard P. Cooper, Bart., 
and Lord Savile, K.C.V.O., were transferred from the List of Members to the 
List of Governors in accordance with the provisions of By-law 9. 
Fifty-one duly nominated candidates were admitted into the Society as 
Members under By-law 2. 
The Report of the Sites Committee having been received and adopted, 
a Deputation was introduced from the authorities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 
support of an invitation to the Society to hokl its Show of 1908 in that City. 
After speeches by the Lord Mayor of Newcastle and others, a Memorial was 
read by the Acting Town Clerk, and the Deputation retired. On the motion 
of Sir Gilbert Greenall, seconded by Mr. Harrison, it was unanimously 
decided that, subject to the usual formalities being completed, the invitation 
tendered by the Lord Mayor, on behalf of the City Council and Citizens 
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to hold the Show in that City in 1908, be accepted 
by the Council. 
The Report of the Finance Committee was received and adopted, and on 
the motion of Mr. Adeane, seconded by Mr. Cornwallis, the following 
resolution was unanimously adopted by the Council ; — 
“That the Conditional Contract, dated January 29, 1907, entered into hy the 
Chairman of the Finance Committee (as agent for the Society, acting on the 
authority of the Finance and House Joint Committee) for the sale to the Central 
London Property Syndicate, Ltd., of No. 13 Hanover Square, for 45,000/., be and the 
same is hereby ratiUed.” 
