Monthly Council, February 1, 1893. 
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according to the counties in which 
they resided , and giving their addresses 
and dates of election. The compila- 
tion contained, besides the actual 
names and addresses of the members, 
a considerable amount of statistical 
information in reference to the past 
and present operations of the Society. 
Lists were given in it of the present 
and past Presidents, Trustees, Vice- 
Presidents, Members of the Council, 
Honorary Members, and officers of 
the Society, as well as of the Stand- 
ing Committees. The total number 
of the Governors and members as at 
December 31, 1892, was 10,934, being 
composed of twenty-five Foundation 
Life Governors (members elected 
before the granting of the charter on 
March 26, 1840) ; seventy -two Gover- 
nors paying the annual subscription 
of 5 1 . ; eighty-four Life Governors who 
have compounded for their annual 
subscriptions ; 6,956 members paying 
the annual subscription of 1 1 . ; seven- 
teen members who, having paid 
annual subscriptions for fifty years, 
have become life members ; 3,679 
life members who have compounded 
for their annual subscriptions ; eighty 
life members by examination ; and 
twenty-one honorary members, elected 
for “ their exceptional services to 
Agriculture or Allied Sciences.” 
Tables were given showing the num- 
ber of Governors and members in 
each year since the establishment of 
the Society in 1838, and giving the 
geographical distribution of the mem- 
bers of the Council and of the Gover- 
nors and members, arranged according 
to the scheme of rotation for the 
Society’s Annual Country Meetings. 
A copy of the List might be had free 
by any member of the Society on 
application to the Secretary ; and he 
(Sir Nigel) trusted that all members 
who received it would study it care- 
fully, and endeavour to induce the 
agriculturists in their districts to join 
the Society, in order to fill up the 
vacancies which were necessarily 
caused by deaths and resignations. 
House. 
Sir Nigel Kisgscote reported his 
election as Chairman of the year, and 
presented the recommendation of the 
Committee that the thanks of the 
Society should be sent to Sir Jacob 
Wilson for a coloured lithograph of 
the Society’s Meeting at Bristol in 
1842, and to Mr. Joseph Davis for 
two engravings of Country Meetings 
at Oxford (1839) and Cambridge 
(1840). He added that, as the Coun- 
cil were aware, the House Committee 
had been engaged for a considerable 
time in endeavouring to obtain more 
suitable premises than their present 
house for the Society’s requirements. 
The inadequacy of No. 12, Hanover 
Square, for the rapidly-increasing 
operations of the Society had, as they 
knew, been for several years past 
under the anxious consideration of 
the Council ; indeed, larger premises 
and greater facilities had now become 
imperative. Of late years, moreover, 
a considerable number of other useful 
and nationally important agricultural 
organisations, such as Stud- and Herd- 
Book Societies and the like, had been 
established ; but owing to the im- 
possibility of finding accommodation 
for them under the same roof as the 
Eoyal Agricultural Society, it had 
been necessary for them to seek offices 
elsewhere. The Councils of these 
bodies, composed to a large extent of 
the same representatives, had been 
obliged, therefore, to hold their 
Monthly Councils in different parts 
of London, which involved a very 
disproportionate waste of time and 
trouble. It had been felt on all hands 
that great advantage would acrue if 
all these Societies could be centred in 
one place. The Royal Agricultural 
Society appeared to be the proper 
organisation to take the lead in en- 
deavouri ng to provide for this want ; bu t 
although the House Committee had 
been continuously engaged for some 
considerable period in inquiries as to 
suitable sites, it had not up to the 
present been able to mature a satis- 
factory plan. Recently, however, it 
had become known to the Committee 
that there was a possibility of obtain- 
ing, as a site for this purpose, part of 
the property known as Harewood 
House, next door to No. 12, Hanover 
Square. This site, otherwise extremely 
eligible, was rendered more suitable 
by the fact that for half a century 
Hanover Square had been looked upon 
as the head-quarters of agriculture in 
England. Very shortly after the 
