XXVlll 
Monthly  Council,  July  28,  1909. 
head  of  a Society  that  did  not  entirely  revolve  upon  its  President.  His  friend 
Sir  Gilbert  Greenall  (their  Hon.  Director)  rendered  great  services  to  the  Society 
which  had  always  shown  in  a most  conspicuous  manner.  The  greater  the 
Show,  the  greater  the  amount  of  work  which  fell  upon  the  Secretary  and  his 
staff,  and  he  (Lord  Jersey!  took  the  opportunity  of  acknowledging  the  great 
debt  they  owed  to  the  hearty  and  unflinching  manner  in  which  this  work  had 
been  carried  out.  Might  he  only  for  himself  say  that  he  was  glad  to  have  had 
the  opportunity  of  being  President  upon  this  occasion. 
The  meeting  then  terminated. 
WEDNESDAY,  JULY  28,  1909. 
At  a Monthly  Council,  held  at  16  Bedford  Square,  W.C.,  the  Earl  of  Jersey, 
G.C.B.  (President),  in  the  Chair  ; — 
Present : — Trunt/’es. — Mr.  J.  Bowen-Jones,  Mr.  F.  S.  W.  Cornwallis,  the  Earl 
of  Coventry,  the  Duke  of  Devon-hire,  Lord  Moreton,  Sir  John  H.  Thorold,  Bart. 
Vice-Presidents. — Mr.  C.  K.  W.  Adeane,  Mr.  Percy  Crutchley,  the  Right 
Hon.  A.  E.  Fellowes,  Sir  Gilbert  Greenall,  Bart.,  the  Earl  of  Northbrook. 
Other  3Ieml)ers  of  the  Council. — Mr.  T.  L.  Aveling,  Mr.  H.  Dent  Brockle- 
hurst,  Mr.  Richardson  Carr,  Sir  Richard  P.  Cooper,  Bart.,  Mr.  Howard  Frank, 
Mr.  R.  M.  Greaves,  Mr.  E.  A.  Hamlyn,  Mr.  Joseph  Harris,  Mr.  W.  HaiTison, 
Mr.  J.  H.  Hine,  Mr.  R.  W.  Hobbs,  Mr.  W.  J.  Hosken,  Sir  C.  V.  Knightley,  Bart., 
Mr.  Ernest  Mathews,  Mr.  W.  A.  May,  Mr.  T.  H.  Miller,  Mr.  C.  M.  S.  Pilkington, 
Mr.  W.  A.  Prout,  Mr.  F.  Reynard,  Mr.  C.  C.  Rogers,  Mr.  John  Rowell,  Mr. 
George  Taylor,  Mr.  C.  W.  Tindall,  and  Mr.  A.  P.  Turner. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  of  the  Council,  held  in  the  Gloucester 
Showyard  on  Thursday,  June  24,  1909,  were  taken  as  read  and  approved. 
One  hundred  and  sixteen  duly  nominated  candidates  were  admitted  into  the 
Society,  and  one  Member  was  re-elected  under  By-law  14. 
Before  passing  to  the  ordinary  business  of  the  day,  the  President  referi’ed 
to  the  great  compliment  paid  to  their  Society  by  the  Royal  Agi'icultural  Society 
of  New  South  Wales  in  presenting  a panorama  photograph  of  their  permanent 
Showyard  at  Sydney.  He  could  testify  from  his  own  experience  to  the  success 
which  attended  the  annual  Shows  of  the  New  South  Wales  Society.  His 
Lordship  kindly  undertook  to  convey  to  Sir  Francis  Suttor  (the  President  of 
that  Society)  the  thanks  of  the  Council  for  this  very  kind  gift. 
A Report  from  the  Special  Committee  appointed  on  December  9,  1908,  was 
presented  and  adopteil,  including  the  following  recommendations  : — 
1.  That  a further  sum  of  50i.  be  allocated  for  the  improvement  of  the  Journal. 
(This,  with  the  50/.  previously  granted,  will  increase  the  annual  sum  allotted  to  the 
Journal  to  700/.) 
2.  That  Mr.  Carruthers  having  resigned  his  position  as  the  Society’s  Consulting 
Botanist,  the  Committee  recommend  that  his  salary  be  paid  in  full  until  Mid- 
summer, 1910.  and  that  at  the  end  of  the  twelve  months  Mr.  Carruthers  be  granted 
a pension  of  100/.  per  annum. 
3.  That  the  Society’s  Botanical  Department  be  moved  to  Cambridge,  and  that 
Mr.  R.  H.  Biffen  be  appointed  the  Botanist  to  the  Society. 
On  the  motion  of  the  President,  seconded  by  the  Duke  of  Devonshire, 
Mr.  Carruthers  was  unanimously  elected  an  Honorary  Member  of  the  Society 
in  recognition  of  the  valuable  services  rendered  by  him  to  the  Society  for  the 
long  period  of  nearly  forty  years  during  which  he  has  held  the  office  of  Con- 
sulting Botanist. 
The  Report  of  the  Finance  Committee  having  been  received  and  adopted, 
it  was  resolved,  on  the  motion  of  Mr.  Adeane,  seconded  by  Sir  John  Thorold  : 
“That  in  order  to  facilitate  the  winding  up  of  the  accounts  for  the  Gloucester 
Show  as  early  as  ])Ossible,  authority  be  given  for  the  issue,  during  the  recess,  of 
orders  on  the  Society’s  bankers  for  the  payment  of  accounts  connected  with 
the  Show.’’ 
Other  business  having  been  transacted,  the  Council  adjourned  over  the 
autumn  recess  until  Wednesday,  November  3,  1909. 
