lii 
Monthlij  Council,  July  27,  1904. 
procec^inoe  of  tbe  Council. 
WEDNESDAY,  JULY  27,  1904. 
LORD  MIDDLETON  (PRESIDENT),  IN  THE  CHAIR. 
Present : 
Tmxteex. — EaiT  Cawdor,  the  Earl 
of  Derby,  K.G.,  Earl  Egertoii  of  Tat- 
ton.  Sir  Walter  Gilbey,  Bart.,  Colonel 
Sir  Nigel  Kingscote,  G.C.V.O.,  K.C.B., 
Sir  John  H.  Thorold,  Bart. 
Vice-Preitidentx.  — H.R.H.  Prince 
Christian,  K.G.,  Mr.  Victor  C.  W. 
Cavendish,  M.P.,  the  Earl  of  Fever- 
sham,  Lord  Moreton,  Mr.  G.  H. 
Sanday. 
Other  Members  of  Council. — Vis- 
count Baring,  Mr.  J.  Bowen-Jones, 
Lord  Brougham  and  Vaux,  Mr. 
F.  S.  W.  Cornwallis,  Mr.  Percy 
Crutchley,  Mr.  J.  Marshall  Dugdale, 
Mr.  W.  Frankish,  the  Marquis  of 
Granby,  Mr.  R.  M.  Greaves,  Mr.  W. 
Harrison,  Mr.  R.  W.  Hobbs,  Mr. 
James  Hornsby,  Mr.  J.  Howard 
Howard,  Mr.  R.  M.  Knowles,  Mr. 
Henry  D.  Marshall,  Mr.  Christopher 
Middleton,  Mr.  T.  H.  Miller,  the  Rev. 
D.  B.  Montefiore,  Mr.  Ralph  Palmer, 
Mr.  J.  E.  Ransome,  Mr.  F.  Reynard, 
Mr.  Howard  P.  Ryland,  Mr.  E.  W. 
Shackle,  Mr.  A.  J.  Smith,  Mr.  R. 
Stratton,  Mr.  Garrett  Taylor,  Lord 
Wenlock,  G.C.S.I.,  Mr.  E.  V.  V. 
Wheeler. 
Minutes  of  Previous  Meetings. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  monthly 
meeting  of  the  Council,  held  at  13 
Hanover  Square,  on  June  1,  1904, 
and  the  minutes  of  the  Special  Council 
Meetings,  held  in  the  Showyard  at 
Park  Royal,  on  June  21,  23,  24,  and 
25,  were  taken  as  read  and  approved. 
(The  minutes  of  the  Special  Council 
Meetings  related,  chiefly  to  matters  of 
detail  affecting  the  Show,  and  to 
votes  of  thanks  to  those  who  had 
assisted  in  various  ways  in  organising 
it.  At  the  final  meeting  on  June  25, 
1904,  it  was  resolved,  on  the  motion  of 
the  Hon.  Cecil  Parker,  seconded  by 
the  Marquis  of  Granby,  “ That  the 
Trustees  of  the  Society  be  appointed  a 
Committee  to  consider  the  present 
position  of  the  Society,  the  Committee 
to  be  convened  by  the  incoming  Ihesi- 
dent  (Lord  Middleton)  and  to  have 
power  to  add  to  their  number.”) 
Deaths  of  Members. 
The  President,  in  opening  the 
proceedings,  said  it  was  his  melancholy 
duty  to  report  officially  from  the 
Chair,  the  death  since  the  last  meeting, 
of  their  old  friend.  General  Viscount 
Bridjjort.  Lord  Bridport,  as  Major 
Hood,  first  joined  the  Society  as  a 
Member  as  long  ago  as  1842.  He 
became  a Member  of  the  Council  in 
1858,  a Governor  in  18(!2,  and  was 
President  of  the  Society  in  1875,  when 
the  Show  was  held  at  Taunton.  He 
was  a Vice-President  from  1804  to 
1871,  when  he  was  elected  a Trustee. 
At  the  time  of  his  death.  Lord  Bridport 
was  the  senior  of  those  who  filled  this 
position.  In  his  day  he  took  an  active 
part  in  the  work  of  the  Society,  and 
served  upon  some  of  its  more  important 
Committees,  including  the  Finance 
Committee,  of  which  he  was  a member 
from  1859  to  1902,  and  Chairman 
from  1861  to  1875.  Although  latterly, 
as  was  only  to  be  expected  from  his 
advanced  age,  he  had  not  been  able  to 
attend  their  meetings  very  frequently, 
his  interest  in  the  work  of  the  Society 
w'as  unabated  until  the  end. 
In  Professor  James  Beart  Simonds, 
who  reached  the  gi'eat  age  of  ninety- 
five,  the  Society  had  lost  its  senior 
Consulting  Veterinary  Surgeon.  More 
than  sixty  years  ago  he  was  acting  as 
Veterinary  Inspector  at  the  Society’s 
earliest  Shows.  Professor  Simonds 
rendered  eminent  services  to  the 
veterinary  profession  by  his  scientific 
researches  and  as  Principal  of  the 
Royal  Veterinary  College  ; and  their 
Society  in  particular  was  indebted  to 
him  for  his  valuable  treatises  in  the 
early  volumes  of  the  Journal  on  the 
anatomy,  physiology,  and  pathology 
of  farm  animals,  and,  later,  for  his 
efforts  to  combat  the  disastrous  out- 
break of  cattle  plague  in  1865. 
