CXCV11 
General Meeting , December 7, 1893. 
March 7, 1888. — The Council have given 
due consideration to the suggestion made by 
Mr. Yeoman at the December General Meet- 
ing that the halt-yearly reports of the Council 
should be issued to members in anticipation 
of the General Meetings. Looking to the 
usual attendance at these meetings, the 
Council could not in any case recommend 
that the serious expense of printing and 
posting to each member the half-yearly 
reports should be incurred. They would 
point out, moreover, that the December 
report is only settled by the Council the day 
before the General Meeting, and could not, 
therefore, be circulated as proposed. The 
report to the May meeting is in a somewhat 
different position. This meeting is directed 
by Clause 6 of the Charter to be held on 
May 22 in each year, and the report to be 
presented at it is, with the exception of the 
results of the Senior Examination, settled at 
the Council Meeting on the first Wednesday 
in that month. If thought well, the report, 
so far as settled, might be communicated to 
the agricultural press in anticipation of the 
meeting, so that it appeared in the papers 
published a few days before May 22. 
June B, 1889.— As stated in the proceedings 
of March 7, 1888, the Council could not re- 
commend that the serious expense of print- 
ing and posting to every member each half- 
yearly report should be incurred ; but the 
report at the recent meeting was issued in 
advance to the agricultural newspapers, and 
was published in full in at least two of them. 
On the mornings of the General Meetings 
the Council-room is available after eleven 
o’clock to members who may wish to attend 
and consider the report in anticipation of 
the public meeting. 
The suggestion made by Dr. Ince and 
Mr. Yeoman should, however, again 
be laid before the Council for their 
consideration. 
Vote of Thanks to the Chairman. 
No other member rising, 
Mr. J. Keksley Fowler moved a 
vote of thanks to the Duke of Devon- 
shire for taking the chair on that 
occasion, and said the Society must 
congratulate itself upon having for 
its President so distinguished a 
public man as the Duke. Mr. 
Fowler took occasion to draw atten- 
tion to the revival of the cultivation 
of beet and the manufacture of sugar 
in this country. The results were 
perfectly astounding, and well 
merited the study of members. 
Mr. Edmond Riley seconded the 
motion, which was carried by accla- 
mation. 
The Pbesident, in reply, said that 
he had only again to express his 
sincere thanks for the compliment 
paid to him by electing him as 
President. As he had said at the 
opening, his connection with the 
Society was rather of an hereditary 
than of a personal character ; but he 
hoped that from the experience he 
should gain during his year of office 
it might be in his power to be of some 
service in the future. Although he 
had no territorial associations^ with 
the locality in which the Meeting was 
to be held next year, he hoped that 
as Chancellor of the University of 
Cambridge he might be regarded as 
not altogether out of place as the 
President of the Society for the 
coming year. He trusted that the 
meeting to be held at Cambridge next 
June would be as successful and 
satisfactory in its results as that at 
Chester this year. (Hear, hear.) 
The proceedings then terminated. 
NOTICE OF ANNIVERSARY GENERAL MEETING. 
Notice is hereby given that the Fifty-fifth Anniversary Meeting of 
Governors and Members of the Royal Agricultural Society of England will, in 
accordance with Clause 6 of the Charter, be held on Tuesday, May 22, 1894, 
at noon, when the half-yearly Report of the Council will be read, and the 
election of the President, Trustees, and Vice-Presidents, and of twenty-five 
Members of Council, will take place. 
December, 1893. 
Ernest Claeke, 
Secretary. 
