xxxii  Annual  General  Meeting,  December  8,  1909. 
the  Honorary  Members  of  the  Society.  He  was  also  grateful  for  the  generous 
consideration  that  the  Council  had  extended  to  him  in  connection  with  his 
retirement  from  the  Society.  It  .was  not  a pleasant  step  on  his  part,  but 
mostly  from  his  failing  sight — which  he  was  happy  to  say  was  not  altogether 
gone — he  felt  unable  to  carry  on  his  work.  He  might  say  that  he  secured  by 
the  contributions  he  had  made  to  more  strict  science,  in  the  year  that  he 
became  associated  with  this  Society,  the  Fellowship  of  the  Koyal  Society  and 
a recognition  from  many  Foreign  Societies.  He,  however,  looked  back  with 
greater  satisfaction  to  the  work  he  had  done  for  this  Society,  as  being  far 
more  beneficial  to  his  fellows  than  the  more  strictly  scientific  work.  He  was 
indebted  to  the  Council  of  the  Society  for  giving  him  the  opportunity  of  doing 
this  work,  and  he  retired  from  the  Society’s  service  in  greater  comfort  in  the 
knowledge  that  the  Council  had  selected,  as  his  successor.  Professor  Biffen,  of 
the  Agricultural  Department  of  the  University  of  Cambridge — than  whom  he 
was  sure  no  one  was  more  competent  to  carry  on  the  work  that  he  himself  had 
done  in  the  past  and  to  extend  it.  He  thanked  the  Council  for  the  honour 
they  had  done  him. 
Other  business  having  been  transacted,  the  Council  adjourned  until 
Wednesday,  February  2,  1910,  at  11  a.m. 
proceebinae  at  tbe  annual 
(Beneral  flDeetlng  of  (Bovernore  anb  flDcmbers, 
HELD  AT  THE  ROYAL  AGRICULTURAL  HALL,  ISLINGTON, 
WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  8,'  1909. 
THE  DUKE  OF  DEVONSHIRE  (TRUSTEE)  IN  THE  CHAIR. 
Present: — Trusteflx. — Mr.  J.  Bowen- Jones,  Mr.  F.  S.  W.  Cornwallis,  Lord 
Middleton,  Sir  John  H.  Thornld,  Bart. 
Vice-Presidents.  — Mr.  C.  R.  W.  Adeane,  the  Rt.  Hon.  Ailwyn  E.  Fellowes, 
Sir  Gilbert  Greenall,  Bart. 
Other  Members  of  the  Council. — Mr.  T.  L.  Aveling,  Mr.  H.  Dent  Brockle- 
hurst,  Major-General  J.  F.  Brocklehurst,  C.V.O.,  C.B.,  Mr.  T.  A.  Buttar, 
Sir  Richard  P.  Cooper,  Bart.,  the  Hon.  J.  E.  Cross,  Mr.  Henry  Dudding, 
Mr.  James  Falconer,  Mr.  Robert  Forrest,  Mr.  Howard  Frank,  Mr.  W.  T.  Game, 
Mr.  James  W.  Glover,  Mr.  Ernest  A.  Hamlyn,  Mr.  Joseph  Harris,  Sir  Arthur 
G.  Hazlerigg,  Bart.,  Mr.  J.  H.  Hine,  Mr.  Robert  W.  Hobbs,  Mr.  W.  J.  Hosken, 
Mr.  Walter  F.  Ingram,  Mr.  J.  L.  Luddington,  Mr.  Alfred  Mansell,  Mr.  Ernest 
Mathews,  Mr.  William  Nocton,  Mr.  Claude  M.  S.  Pilkington,  Mr.  Frederick 
Reynard,  the  Duke  of  Richmond  and  Gordon,  K.G.,  Mr.  John  Rowell,  Mr. 
William  Scoby,  Mr.  Fred  Smith,  Mr.  George  Taylor,  Mr.  C.  W.  Tindall,  Mr.  A. 
P.  Turner,  Mr.  Christopher  W.  Wilson,  and  Mr.  Louis  C.  Wrigley. 
Governors. — Lord  Hastings,  Mr.  W.  F.  Holt  Beever,  Mr.  T.  G.  Benn, 
Lieut. -Col.  J.  F.  Curtis-Hay ward,  Mr.  Colin  Maclver,  and  Mr.  Martin 
J.  Sutton. 
Members. — The  Earl  of  Verulam,  Lord  Vaux  of  Harrowden,  Sir  Herbert 
Ghermside,  G.C.M.G.,  Messrs.  W.  Bainbridge,  W.  W.  Beaumont,  William 
Bedford,  Edward  Bohane,  E.  D.  Brieant,  T.  Brigg,  W.  C.  Brown,  W.  Burton, 
Thomas  Carrick,  Jas.  Chalcraft,  W.  S.  Cleverley,  Cooper  Corbidge,  W.  A.  Cox, 
Walter  Crosland,  A.  W.  Dean,  W.  H.  Daun,  Loudon  M.  Douglas,  Douglas  Ellis, 
W.  A.  Ellis,  John  Evens,  John  Evison,  George  Gibbons,  H.  W.  Gilbey,  D.  S. 
Gill,  W.  F.  Glasier,  J.  H.  Glover,  J.  E.  Grove,  F.  J.  Gurney,  W.  A.  Haviland, 
John  Henderson,  C.  Y.  Hewitt,  W.  H.  Hitch,  J.  T.  Hobbs,  R.  Hobbs,  jun.,  E.  A. 
