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Report to the General Meeting. 
12. Joseph Henry Thomas, Sexey’s Trade School, Bruton, 
Somerset. 
13. Philip Peebles, Castle College, Guildford. 
14. William Hodges Crook Hicks, Cheltenham Grammar 
School. 
15. George Gray Parkin, Northampton Grammar School. 
16. William Cook Brakenridge, Aspatria Agricultural College. 
29. The Council have decided that the next Examination for 
the Society’s Senior Certificates shall be held from the 8th to the 
12th of May, 1894. The Life Membership of the Society will be 
conferred upon the five winners of first-class certificates who obtain 
the highest number of marks, money prizes of 25/., 15/., 10/., and 51. 
respectively being also given to the first four candidates. 
30. Under schemes prepared by the Charity Commissioners, and 
approved by Her Majesty, the Council have appointed Mr. Charles 
Whitehead upon the South-Eastern College and School Foundation at 
Wye (Kent), and Mr. Alfred Ashworth upon the Sandbach School 
(Cheshire) Foundation, as Governors representing the Society. 
31. On July 29 last was celebrated the Jubilee of the Rotham- 
sted Agricultural Experiments, which have been carried on since 
the year 1843 by Sir John Lawes and Dr. (now Sir Henry) Gilbert, 
and which have had such remarkable results in extending the science 
and improving the practice of agriculture. The Council gladly took 
the opportunity of identifying the Society with the movement for 
the celebration of the Jubilee. IJ.R.H. the Prince of Wales pre- 
sided over the Meeting at 12 Hanover Square, at which the 
Rothamsted Jubilee Fund originated; the Duke of Westminster, 
as the then President of the Society, acted as Chairman of the 
Executive Committee ; and Addresses from the Society to Sir John 
Lawes and Dr. Gilbert were presented on July 29 by the Duke of 
Devonshire, who had meanwhile succeeded to the Presidency. 
32. The present acute agricultural crisis, which has been accen- 
tuated by the prolonged drought of the last summer, is now under 
the consideration of a Royal Commission, whose conclusions and 
recommendations will be awaited with general interest by agricul- 
turists. 
By Order of the Council, 
ERNEST CLARKE, 
Secretary. 
December 6, 1893. 
