XXXIV 
Monthly Council, June 5 , 1907 . 
Mr. Joseph Harris, Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. J. H. Hine, Mr. R. W. Hobbs, Mr. J. 
Howard Howard, Mr. George Lobb, Mr. C. Middleton, Mr. T. H. Miller, 
Mr. T. S. Minton, Mr. Ralph Palmer. Mr. F. Reynard, Mr. J. Rowell, Mr. E. W. 
Shackle, Mr. H. H. Smith, Mr. e! AV. Stanyforth, Mr. H. Tallent, Mr. G. 
Taylor, Mr. John Thornton, Mr. E. Wheeler, and Mr. C. AV. Wilson. 
The following Members of the Lincoln Local Committee were also present: — 
The Mayor of Lincoln (Col. J. S. Ruston), Mr. AA’^. Frankish, Mr. C. \V. Tindall, 
and Mr. E. E. Tweed (Local Secretary). 
The minutes of the last meeting of the Council, held on May 1, 1907, were 
taken as read and approved. 
Mr. W. W. G. Phillipps was elected a Governor of the Society, and the 
name of Lord Brassey, G.C.B., was transferred from the List of Members to the 
List of Governors in accordance with B 3 ’-law 9. 
One hundred and fifty-eight new Members were elected under By-law 2, 
and the names of two Members were restored to the Registers under By-law 14. 
On the motion of Mr. Adeane, seconded bj^ Mr. Wheeler, it was 
resolved : “ That the Secretary be empowered to issue to any duly nominated 
candidate for Membership of the Society, on receipt of the annual subscription, 
a special ticket admitting the candidate to the same privileges as a Member 
during the forthcoming Show at Lincoln ; the formal election of such 
candidate to be considered bj' the Council at their next Ordinary Meeting.” 
On the recommendation of the Committee of Selection, the Monthly 
Council Meeting in the Lincoln Showyard was fixed for AA'^ednesdaj", June 26, 
and the General Meeting of Members for the following day, Thursdaj', June 27, 
1907, at noon. 
The Secretary announced that the Trustees of the “ Queen A''ictoria 
Gifts” Fund had decided to make a grant to the Royal Agricultural Benevolent 
Institution of 140L for the j’ear 1907, to be distributed as fourteen grants of 
107. each to the five male candidates, five married couples, and four female 
candidates who polled the largest number of votes in their class, and who would 
not this j'ear receive grants from any other fund in connection with the Roj'al 
Agricultural Benevolent Institution. 
The President reported that the deputation from the Conference of 
Agricultural and Breed Societies had waited upon the general managers of the 
various railway companies on May 7 last, but that no replj' had yet been 
received to the requests then put forward. 
On the motion of Mr. Adeane, seconded by Mr. Cornwallis, the Society’s 
Seal was affixed to the contract which had been entered into with Messrs. John 
Unite, Ltd., for the supplj' of canvas, Ac., at the Societj' s Shows of 1907 to 1916 
inclusive. 
Mr. Wilson reported that, as the Society’s re[)resentative, he had on the 
previous day attended a meeting of the National Dustless Roads Committee of 
the Roads Improvement Association. 
Other business having been transacted, the Council adjourned until 
AA'^ednesday, June 26, 1907 (in the Lincoln Showj-ard). 
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1907. 
At a Monthly Council Meeting, held in the large tent in the Lincoln Showj'ard,. 
the Earl of Yarborough (President) in the Chair : — 
Present : — Trustee. — BIr. F. S. W. Coimwallis. 
Vice-Presidents.— llx. J. Bowen-Jones, the Right Hon. A’ictor Cavendish, 
M.P., Mr. J. Marshall Dugdale, the Right Hon. A. E. Fellowes, the Earl 
of Northbrook. 
Other J/einbers of the Council . — Mr. George Adams, Mr. Charles R. AA'. 
Adeane, Mr. T. L. Aveling, Mr. H. Dent Brocklehurst, Mr. R. G. Carden, 
Mr. Richardson Carr, Sir Richard P. Cooper, Bart., Mr. J. T. C. Eadie, Mr. R- 
M. Greaves, Sir Gilbert Greenall, Bart., Mr. AA'. Harrison, BIr. A. Hiscock,. 
