General  Meeting  of  Governors  and  Members.  Ixxxiii 
Howard  Frank,  John  Golding, 
William  Graham,  E.  0.  Greening, 
H.  J.  Greenwood,  Henry  Grinling, 
Percival  Harter,  W.  M.  Haywood, 
John  Hill,  J.  J.  Hornby,  John 
Hughes,  11.  H.  P.  Hutehinson, 
Surg.-Lt.-Colonel  J.  Ince,  M.D., 
Messrs.  Samuel  Kidner,  Cyprian  K. 
Knollys,  Rev.  Cecil  Legard,  Messrs. 
R.  A.  Lister,  F.  A.  CavendiSh 
Macdonnell,  Colin  Mclver,  John 
McLaren,  D.  Maclennan,  J.  G.  Mair- 
Rumley,  Alfred  Mansell,  Charles 
Marriott,  J.  H.  Master,  A.  H.  H. 
Matthews,  J.  Maxwell,  Thomas  May, 
W.  A.  May,  T.  D.  Milburne,  W.  J. 
Towers  Minors,  W.  Moat,  John 
Neilson,  G.  F.  North,  J.  Sturley 
Nunn,  Captain  W.  E.  F.  O’Brien,  Mr. 
C.  F.  Paddison,  Professor  J.  Penberthy, 
Messrs.  W.  Perkins,  Claude  M.  S. 
Pilkington,  T.  F.  Plowman,  George  H. 
C.  Powell,  J.  E.  Rawlence,  J.  R.  Raw- 
lence,  Clare  Sewell  Read,  A.  Roger 
Rowden,  Harold  Sessions,  F.  W. 
Silvester,  H.  M.  Simmons,  Dr.  B. 
Skalweit,  Messrs.  A.  C.  Skinner, 
Henry  Smith,  Sanders  Spencer, 
A.  W.  Stanton,  Thomas  Stirton,  C. 
Harris  Stratton,  C.  Howard  Taylor, 
J.  Herbert  Taylor,  C.  W.  Thompson, 
C.  W.  Tindall,  Lawrence  C.  Tipper, 
E.  R.  Berry  Torr,  J.  de  C.  Treffry, 
E.  Trimen,  James  G.  Unite,  Eldred 
G.  F.  Walker,  Dr.  Herbert  Watney, 
Messrs.  James  Watt,  Henry  Webb, 
Jonas  M.  Webb,  J.  M.  White,  T.  P. 
Wilkes,  W.  F.  Wilson,  Leslie  S. 
Wood,  Montague  Wootten,  &c. 
The  President,  in  opening  the 
proceedings,  said  he  had  pleasure  in 
welcoming  so  many  Members  of  the 
Society  at  the  meeting  that  morning, 
and  he  hoped  they  would  get  through 
the  various  items  of  the  business  in 
a satisfactory  manner.  He  would  ask 
the  Secretary  to  read  the  Report  from 
the  Council,  printed  copies  of  which 
were  in  the  hands  of  the  Members 
present. 
The  Secretary  then  read  the 
principal  paragraphs  in  the  Report 
of  the  Council  for  the  past  half-year 
(see  page  228). 
Adoption  of  Report. 
The  President,  in  moving  the 
adoption  of  the  Report,  said  it  would 
be  seen  that  the  Council  of  the  Society 
were  desirous  of  meeting  a generally 
expressed  wish,  and  were  proposing 
a Petition  for  a Supplemental  Charter. 
This  proposed  Petition  would,  at  a 
later  stage,  be  explained  to  the 
Members  present  by  the  Society’s 
Solicitor,  who  had  been  asked  by 
the  Council  to  prepare  it. 
Another  important  part  of  the 
Report  was  the  appeal  for  funds. 
It  would  be  observed  from  the  Report 
that  the  amount  of  subscriptions 
promised  to  date  was  about  5,000f. — 
only  half  the  sum  that  had  been 
asked  for.  The  Council  would  be 
very  unwilling  to  undertake  a Show 
next  year  if  they  could  not  obtain  the 
sum  which  they  thought  was  neces- 
sary to  carry  it  tlirough  without  a 
loss  ; and  unless  a sum  approximating 
to  10,000/.  was  reached,  he  did  not 
think  they  would  be  disposed  to 
organise  it.  He  believed  the  Council 
were,  generally,  of  opinion  that  there 
should  be  a Sliow  next  year,  and  he, 
personally,  hoped  this  would  be  the 
case.  It  should  be  realised  that  the 
Society  had  only  0,000/.  a year  to 
depend  upon,  and  he  thought  this  a 
very  insufficient  sum  for  a great 
Society  like  the  “ Royal  ” to  do  all 
that  it  wished  to  <lo,  and  all  that  it 
had  tried  to  do.  If  the  Society  were 
to  continue  its  useful  work  in  the 
future,  there  would  have  to  be  an 
increase  of  subscriptions  to  the 
Society. 
With  respect  to  paragraph  15  re- 
lating to  the  work  carried  on  at  their 
• Woburn  Farm,  he  thought  that  they 
ought  to  be  very  grateful  to  the  Duke 
of  Bedford  for  coming  forward  to  help 
them  in  connection  with  that  mo.st 
interesting  undertaking.  His  Grace 
had  ever  been  most  helpful  in  con- 
nection with  the  Society’s  work  at 
Woburn,  and  this  year  had  most 
generously  come  forward  to  help  them 
again.  He  begged  to  move  the 
adoption  of  the  Report. 
'The  Earl  of  Derby,  in  seconding 
the  motion,  said  he  did  so  with  the 
confidence  that,  whatever  might  be 
said  of  the  Society  at  the  present 
moment,  and  whatever  might  be  the 
feeling  of  some  of  the  Members,  and 
especially  those  residing  at  a distance, 
it  was  a Report  which  could  be  sub- 
mitted to  a fair-minded  body  of  men 
