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or  raise  any  discussion,  but  tlie 
Council  would  recollect  that  they 
were  just  beyond  the  parting  of  the 
two  ways.  It  would  be  remembered 
that  there  had  been  repeated  discus- 
sions with  regard  to  the  change  of 
pnactice  in  the  holding  of  the  Society’s 
Shows.  There  w'ere  increasing  diffi- 
culties ill  getting  the  accommodation 
requircil,  and  in  getting  funds  for 
the  purposes  of  the  Society’s  Shows. 
During  the  period  in  which  the 
Society  had  held  its  Shows  in  different 
localities,  all  this  had  brought  about 
heavy  expenditure  upon  the  Society, 
and  they  had  decided,  not  without 
deliberation,  and  not  without  much 
discussion,  to  establish  themselves 
upon  a permanent  ground.  For  his 
own  part,  he  had  the  same  belief  in 
a permanent  showyard  as  when  they 
first  started.  The  Society  had  in  its 
new  ground  acquired,  under  very 
favourable  terms,  a property  which 
might  prove  of  great  value.  If  the 
Society  should  eventually  go  back  to 
a former  state  of  affairs,  at  all  events 
there  would  be  something  to  set  upon 
the  other  side.  He  hoped  that  when 
his  successor  came  to  lay  down  his 
office  he  would  be  able  to  give  an 
account  of  the  Society’s  affairs  more 
favourable,  and  to  say  that  things 
were  beginning  to  work  out  more 
happily.  The  Society  had  taken  a 
bolil  decision,  and,  he  believed,  a 
right  one,  ami  was  going  forward, 
under  altered  and  improved  circum- 
stances, in  the  same  spirit  that  it 
had  shown  for  the  last  sixty  years 
or  more. 
The  proceedings  then  terminated. 
Iproccebino^  of  the  CouncU. 
WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  1,.  1904. 
THE  EARL  OF  DERBY,  K.G.  (PRESIDENT),  IN  THE  CHAIR. 
Present : 
Tnixteen. — The  Earl  of  Coventry, 
Sir  M''alter  Gilbey,  Bart.,  Colonel  Sir 
Nigel  King.scote,  G.C.V.O.,  K.C.B., 
Karl  Spencer,  K.  G.,  Sir  John  H. 
Thorold,  Bart. 
Vice-Prexidents. — Mr.  Victor  C.  W. 
Cavendish,  M.P.,  the  Earl  of  Jersey, 
G.C.B.,  Lord  Moreton,  the  Hon.  Cecil 
T.  Parker,  Sir  Jacob  Wilson. 
Other  Memhers  of  Council. — Mr. 
Alfred  Ashworth,  Mr.  R.  C.  Assheton, 
Viscount  Baring,  Lord  Brougham  and 
Vaux,  Mr.  Percy  Crutchley,  Lt.-Col. 
J.  F.  Curtis-Hayward,  the  Hon.  A.  K. 
Fellowes,  M.P.,  Mr.  S.  P.  Foster, 
Mr.  W.  Frankish,  Mr.  W.  Harrison, 
Mr.  K.  W.  Hobbs,  Mr.  James  Hornsby, 
Captain  W.  S.  B.  Levett,  Mr.  Henry 
D.  Marshall,  Mr.  Joseph  Martin,  Lord 
Middleton,  Mr.T.  H.  Miller,  Mr.  Albert 
Pell,  Mr.  W.  A.  Prout,  Mr.  F.  Reynard, 
Mr.  Howard  P.  Ryland,  Mr.  E.  W. 
Shackle,  Mr.  Garrett  Taylor,  Mr.  C. 
W.  Wilson. 
Election  of  New  Members. 
Tlic  Minutes  of  the  last  meeting 
of  the  Council,  held  on  May  4,  1904, 
having  been  taken  as  read  and  ap- 
proved, the  election  of  eighty-nine  new 
Members  was  proceeded  with. 
The  Reports  of  the  various  standing 
Committees  were  then  presented  and 
adopted  as  below  : — 
Finance. 
Sir  Nigel  Kingscote  (Chairman) 
reported  that  the  accounts  for  the 
month  of  May,  1904,  showed  total 
receipts  amounting  to  1,106/.  4.v.  {Id., 
and  expenditure  to  1,255/.  14.i.  Id. 
Accounts  amounting  in  all  to  5,104/. 
7.S.  2d.  had  been  passed.  The  Com- 
mittee had  had  under  consideration 
the  recommendations  of  the  Sub- 
Committee  on  Finance,  together  with 
the  Report  of  the  Auditors  on  the 
question  of  Life  Compositions,  and 
some  valuable  suggestions  on  the  sub- 
subject of  Membership.  They  proposed 
further  to  consider  all  these  matters 
together  after  the  forthcoming  Show  ; 
but  meanwhile  they  thought  it  desir- 
able that  formal  notice  should  be  given 
of  an  alteration  in  the  present  Bye- 
laws so  as  to  enable  the  question  of 
Life  Membership  to  be  discussed  by  the 
