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Monthly Council, November 6, 1907. 
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1907. 
At a Monthly Council, held at 16 Bedford Square, W.C., Mr. F. S. W. 
Cornwallis (Trustee) in the Chair : — 
Present : Trustees . — The Earl of Coventry, Earl Egerton of Tatton, Lord 
Middleton. 
Vice-Presidents. — Mr. J. Bowen-Jones, Mr. Percy Crutchley, Mr. J. 
Marshall Dugdale, the Earl of Northbrook, the Hon. C. T. Parker. 
Other Members of the Council. — Mr. George Adams, Mr. Charles R. W. 
Adeane, Mr. T. L. Aveling, Mr. S. N. Bankart. Mr. John Barker, M.P., Mr. H. 
Dent Brocklehurst, Mr. T. A. Buttar, Mr. R. G. Carden, Sir Richard P. Cooper, 
Bart., Sir H. F. de Trafford, Bart., Mr Henry Dudding, Mr. J. T. C. Eadie, 
Mr. J. W. Glover, Mr. R. M. Greaves, Sir Gilbert Greenall, Bart., Mr. W. 
Harrison, Mr. J. H. Hine, Mr. R. ,J. Bayntun Hippisley, Mr. R. W. Hobbs, 
Mr. J. Howard Howard, Mr. W. F. Ingram, Mr. Ernest Matbews, Mr. \V. A. 
May, Mr. T. H. Miller, Mr. T. S. Minton, Mr. Ralph Palmer, Mr. C. M. S. 
Pilkington, Mr. H. F. Plumptre, Mr. G. G. Rea, Mr. F. Reynard, Mr. C. C. 
Rogers, Mr. John Rowell, Mr. E. W. Shackle, Mr. R. Stratton, Mr. G. Taylor, 
Mr. A. P. Turner, Mr. E. V. V. Wheeler, and Mr. C. W. Wilson. 
The following Members of the Newcastle Local Committee were also 
present : — Mr. Johnstone Wallace and Mr. A. M. Oliver (Local Secretary). 
In the unavoidable absence, through continued ill-health, of the President, 
Mr. Cornwallis was called to the Chair, on the motion of the Earl of 
Coventry, seconded by Mr. Crutchley. 
The Chairman, in opening the meeting, reported the receipt of a letter 
from the Earl of Yarborough expressing his great pleasure at being made a 
Vice-President of the Society. A communication had also been received from 
Mr. Charles Whitehead thanking the Council for their kind expressions on his 
retirement from office as Vice-President. 
The minutes of the last meeting of the Council, held on Wednesday 
July 31, 1907, were taken as read and approved. 
Thirty-two duly nominated candidates were admitted into the Society as 
Members under By-Law 2, and the name of one Member (Mr. James Bowers, 
of Kershopefoot, Cumberland) was restored to the Registers under By-I^aw 14. 
The Report of the Finance Committee having been received and adopted, 
Mr. Adeane mentioned that, subject to audit, the net profit on the Lincoln 
Show was .5,066/., exclusive of the 2,0007. allocated to the Show account from 
the ordinary account. 
The Report of the Veterinary Committee was received and adopted, 
including the following resolution : — “That in the event of the promotion of 
legislation dealing with the question of Tuberculosis and other diseases of 
cattle, the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England is of opinion 
that any Regulations for dealing with this question should be issued by the 
Board of Agriculture and not by any other Department.” 
With the view of ultimately forming a powerful and representative 
Committee of farmers and breeders of cattle to watch the development of this 
question, it was unanimously resolved, on the motion of Mr. Adeane, seconded 
by Mr. Richard Stratton : — 
“That a Committee be formed to communicate with other Societies for the 
purpose of watching the interests of Agriculture in view of possible legislation with 
regard to the Tuberculosis question.” • 
This Committee was constituted as follows: — The Earl of Northbrook, the 
Hon. Cecil Parker, Mr. J. Bowen-Jones, Mr. Richardson Carr, Mr. Ernest 
Mathews, Mr. Claude M. S. Pilkington, Mr. Richard Stratton, and Mr. George 
Taylor, with power to add to their number. 
[At a Meeting of this Committee, held after the adjournment of the Council on 
Noven>ber 6, 1907, it was decided to invite the various Cattle and County Agri- 
cultural Societies to send one or two representatives to attend a meeting to be held 
at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, in the afternoon of the Wednesday of the 
Smithfleld Cattle Show Week— viz., December 11.] 
