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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
IProceetnngs of tbe Council. 
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1893. 
THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, K.G. (PRESIDENT), IN THE CHAIR. 
Present : — 
Trustees . — Earl Cathcart, Col. Sir 
Nigel Kingscote, K.C.B., Sir A. K. 
Macdonald, Bart, Right Hon. Sir 
M. W. Ridley, Bart., M.P. 
Vice-Presidents. — H. R. H. Prince 
Christian, K.G., Mr. Chandos-Pole- 
Gell, Earl of Feversham, Mr. Walter 
Gilbey, Right Hon. Sir Massey Lopes, 
Bart., Sir J. H. Thorold, Bart , Mr. 
Charles Whitehead. 
Other Members of Council. — Mr. G. 
M. Allender, Mr. J. A. Caird, Mr. 
Charles Clay, Mr. F. S. W. Corn- 
wallis, M.P., Earl of Coventry, Mr. 
Percy E. Crutcliley, Lieut.-Col. J. F. 
Curtis-Hayward, Mr. Alfred Dart}', 
Mr. J. Marshall Dugdale, Mr. W. 
Frankish, Mr. Hugh Gorringe, Mr. 
James Hornsby, Mr. Charles Howard, 
Mr. Joseph Martin, Mr. P. A. Muntz, 
M.P., Hon. Cecil T. Parker, Mr. Dan. 
Pidgeon, Mr. J. E. Ransome, Mr. J. 
Rawlence, Mr. S. Rowlandson, Mr. G. 
H. Sanday, Mr. W. T. Scarth, Mr. A. 
J. Smith, Mr. Henry Smith, Mr. R. 
Stratton, Mr. Garrett Taylor, Mr. J. 
P. Terry, Mr. R. A. Warren, Mr. E. V. 
V. Wheeler, Mr. C. W. Wilson, Sir 
Jacob Wilson. 
Officers.— Mr. Ernest Clarke, Secre- 
tary; Dr. Fream, Editor of the Jour- 
nal ; Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker, Con- 
sulting Chemist ; Professor J. B. 
Simonds, Consulting Veterinary Sur- 
geon ; Mr. Wilson Bcnnison, Sur- 
veyor. 
Professor Brown, C.B. 
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The following members of the 
Chester Local Committee were also 
present: — Mr. John Scovell and Mr. 
George A. Dickson (Honorary Secre- 
tary of the Local Committee). 
Apologies for non-attendance were 
received from the Earl of Ravens- 
worth, Viscount Emlyn, Lord More- 
ton, Sir Joseph Spearman, Bart., Mr. 
J. H. Arkwright, Mr. Alfred Ash- 
worth, Mr. Joseph Beach, Mr. 
Anthony Hamond, Mr. C. S. Main- 
waring, Mr. R. Neville Grenville, Mr. 
E. W. Stanyforth, and Mr. Martin J. 
Sutton. 
Death of the Duke of Bedford. 
The minutes of the last monthly 
meeting of the Council, held on 
March 1, having been approved, 
The President referred in feel- 
ing terms to the death of the Duke 
of Bedford, a member of Council, 
and said he was sure that every 
member of their body would feel 
deeply the loss of so munificent a 
patron of the Society. He felt con- 
fident that it would be the wish of 
the Council that they should pass a 
resolution of sincere condolence with 
the family of the late Duke, and he 
therefore desired to move, in the 
name of the whole Council, the reso- 
lution which he understood had been 
passed by the Chemical Committee 
on the previous day, and which was in 
the following terms : — 
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