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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
proceeMinja of tbe Council, 
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1893. 
THE RIGHT HON. SIR M. W. RIDLEY, BART., M.P. (TRUSTEE), 
IN THE CHAIR. 
Present : — 
Trustees. — Gen. Viscount Bridport, 
Earl Cathcart, Mr. John Dent Dent, 
Lord Egerton of Tatton, Col. Sir 
Nigel Kingscote, K.C.B., Right Hon. 
Sir M. W. Ridley, Bart., M.P. 
Vice-Presidents. — H. R.TI. Prince 
Christian, K.G., Mr. H. Chandos-Pole- 
Gell, Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart., Lord 
Moreton, Sir J. H. Thorold, Bart., Mr. 
Charles Whitehead. 
Other Members of Council. — Mr. G. 
M. Allender, Mr. J. H. Arkwright, Mr. 
J. Bowen-Jones, Lord Brougham and 
Vaux, Mr. J. A. Caird, Mr. Charles Clay, 
Mr. F. S. W. Cornwallis, M.P., Earl 
of Coventry, Mr. Percy E. Crutchley, 
Lieut.-Col. 1. F. Curtis-Hayward, Mr. 
Alfred Darby, Mr. J. Marshall 
Dugdale, Mr. W. Frankish, Mr. Hugh 
Gorringe, Mr. Anthony Hamond, Mr. 
James Hornsby, Mr. Joseph Martin, 
Mr. T. H. Miller, Mr. P. A. Muntz, 
M.P., Mr. R. Neville-Grenville, Hon. 
Cecil T. Parker, Mr. Albert Pell, Mr. 
J. E. Ransome, Mr. S. Rowlandson, 
Mr. G. H. Sanday, Mr. A. J. Smith, 
Mr. Henry Smith, Mr. E. W. Stany- 
forth, Mr. R. Stratton, Mr. Martin J. 
Sutton, Mr. Garrett Taylor, Mr. John 
Tremayne, Mr. R. A. Warren, Mr. E. 
V. V. Wheeler, Mr. C. W. Wilson. 
Professor Brown, C.B. 
Officers. — Mr. Ernest Clarke, Secre- 
tary ; Dr. Fream", Editor of the 
Journal ; Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker, 
Consulting Chemist ; Professor J. 
B. Simonds, Consulting Veterinary 
Surgeon ; Mr. Wilson Bennison, 
Surveyor. 
VOL. IV. T. S. — 16, 
The following members of the 
Cambridge Local Committee were 
also present:— Mr. Charles Bid well, 
Mr. C. F. Cunliffe Foster, Rev. E. 
H. Morgan, Mr. J. O. Vinter, the 
Town Clerk (Mr. J. E. L. Whitehead), 
and Mr. R. Peters (Secretary of the 
Local Committee). 
Apologies for non-attendance were 
received from the Duke of Devonshire, 
K.G. (President), the Duke of West- 
minster, K.G., Viscount Emlyn, Sir 
J. L. E. Spearman, Bart., Sir Jacob 
Wilson, Mr. Alfred Ashworth, Mr. 
Joseph Beach, Mr. Charles Howard, 
Mr. Dan. Pidgeon, and Mr. Joseph 
Terry. 
Sir Nigel Kingscote said that 
the President, who had been present 
at the House Committee on the pre- 
vious day, regretted his inability to 
preside on that occasion, in conse- 
quence of an important meeting of 
the Royal Commission on Labour, of 
which he was Chairman. As their 
ex-President (the Duke of AVest- 
minster) was also unable to be present 
in consequence of indisposition, which 
confined him to the house, he (Sir 
Nigel) moved that Sir Matthew 
Ridley take the chair. 
Election of New Members. 
The minutes of the last monthly 
meeting of the Council, held on July 
2(5, having been approved, and those 
of the Special Council, held on 
August 2, having been confirmed, the 
election of the following thirty-seven 
members was proceeded with : — 
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