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WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1893, 
THE RIGHT HON. SIR M. W. RIDLEY, BART., M.P. (TRUSTEE), 
IN THE CHAIR. 
Present : — 
Trustees. — Earl Cathcart, Col. Sir 
Nigel Kingscote, K.C.B., Sir A. K. 
Macdonald, Bart., Rt. Hon. Sir M. W. 
Ridley, Bart. 
Vice-Presidents. — Viscount Emlyn, 
Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart., Sir J. H. 
Thorold, Bart., Mr. Charles White- 
head. 
Other Members of Council. — Mr. G. 
M. Allender, Mr. J. II. Arkwright, 
Mr. Alfred Ashworth, Mr. J. Bowen- 
Jones, Mr. E. S. W. Cornwallis, M.P., 
Lieut.-Col. J. F. Curtis-Hayward, 
Mr. J. Marshall Dugdale, Mr. Joseph 
Martin, Mr. Albert Pell, Mr. J. E. 
Ransome, Mr. James Rawlence, Mr. 
A. J. Smith, Mr. Garrett Taylor, Mr. 
J. P. Terry, Mr. R. A. Warren, Mr. E. 
V. V. Wheeler, Sir Jacob Wilson. 
Professor Brown, C.B. 
Officers. — Mr. Ernest Clarke, Secre- 
tary ; Dr. Fream, Editor of the Jour- 
nal; Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker, Con- 
sulting Chemist ; Mr. Wilson Benni- 
son, Surveyor. * 
The following members of the 
Cambridge Local Committee were 
also present: — Mr. Alderman Cun- 
nington, the Town Clerk of Cam- 
bridge (Mr. J. E. L. Whitehead), the 
Rev. E. H. Morgan, Mr. C. F. Cunliffe 
Foster, Mr. George Jonas, Mr. J. 0. 
Vinter, Mr. R. Peters (Secretary of 
the Local Committee). 
In the unavoidable absence of the 
President, Sir Matthew White Ridley, 
Bart., M.P. (Trustee), was called to 
the Chair. 
The Secretary reported that in 
consequence of the Trials of Sheaf 
Binders, which commenced that day, 
the Hon. Cecil T. Parker (lion. Di- 
rector), and Mr. S. Rowlandson and 
Sir Joseph Spearman, Bart. (Stewards 
of Implements), were detained on 
duty at Chester. Mr. Frankish and 
Mr. Sanday, who had presided yester- 
day at the meetings of the Com- 
mittees of which they were Chairmen, 
were unable to attend the Council. 
Apologies for non-attendance had 
also been received from the Duke 
of Devonshire, K.G. (President), 
the Duke of Westminster, K.G., the 
Earl of Coventry, Viscount Bridport, 
G.C.B., Mr. J. Beach, Mr. C. Clay, 
Mr. J. Hornsby, Mr. C. Howard, Mr. 
T. H. Miller, Mr. D. Pidgeon, 
Professor Simonds, Mr. H. Smith, 
and Mr. E. W. Stanyforth. 
Confirmation of Minutes. 
The minutes of the last Ordinary 
Council, held in the Chester Show- 
yard on Wednesday, June 21, were 
approved, and the following minutes 
of a Special Council held on Thurs- 
day, June 22 (Sir Walter Gilbey, 
Bart., Vice-President, in the Chair), 
were read and confirmed : — 
1. The Steward of Cattle (Mr. Wheeler) 
reported that he had found it necessary to 
disqualify two Channel Island heifers which 
had been entered in the classes for cows 
or heifers “ in milk,” but which had not 
calved by the opening day of the show, as 
required by the regulations — viz. : Mr. W. 
Alexander’s Jersey heifer Auckland (Class 
102, No. 1,006), and Messrs. Fowler and de la 
Perrellc's Guernsey heifer /tosa des Belles 2nd. 
(Class 107, No. 1,095). The Steward's action 
in the matter was approved, and the subject 
of any further steps necessary to be taken 
referred to the Stock Prizes Committee. 
2. A protest by Mrs. Swan against the 
award of the champion prize in Classes 116 a 
and 11 Gb was not entertained, as the prize 
had, in accordance with the conditions, 
been awarded to the cow “yielding the 
largest quantity of butter in proportion to 
her lire weight.” 
Election of New Governor and 
Members. 
The election of the following Gover- 
nor and thirty-one Members was then 
proceeded with : — 
Governor. 
Moobsom-Mitchixson-Maude, 0. R... Hare- 
wood, Leeds. 
