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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL TO THE 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF GOVERNORS 
AND MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY, 
Held at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, 
On WEDNESDA Y, December 9, 1908, at 3 p.m. 
The Duke of Devonshire (President) in the Chair. 
1. The Council have to report that the list of Governors 
and Members has undergone the following changes during the 
year which has elapsed since the Annual General Meeting on 
December 11, 1907 : 13 new Governors and 648 new Members 
have joined the Society, and 6 Members have been re-instated 
under By-Law 14 ; whilst the deaths of 9 Governors, 93 Life 
Members, 139 Annual Members have been reported. A total 
of 33 Members have been struck off the books under 
By-Law 12, owing to absence of addresses ; 90 under 
By-Law 13, for Arrears of subscription ; and 254 Annual 
Members have resigned. 
2. Since the last Annual Meeting, the Society has sustained 
the loss by death of four Governors who had served on the 
Council, and who had each filled the office of President, viz. : 
the Duke of Devonshire, K.G., the Earl of Derby, K.G., the 
Right Hon. Sir Massey Lopes, Bart., and Colonel Sir Nigel 
Kingscote, G.C.Y.O., K.C.B. 
3. The late Duke of Devonshire was elected a Governor of 
the Society in the year 1880, and became President in 1894, 
in which year the Annual Show was held at Cambridge, of 
which University His Grace was Chancellor. It will also be 
remembered that His Grace evinced great interest in the 
Derby Show of 1906, and, as Lord Lieutenant of the County 
and President of the Local Committee, contributed in a great 
measure to the success of that show. 
4. The late Earl of Derby was elected a member in 1874, 
and joined the Council in 1895, becoming subsequently a Vice- 
President and later a Trustee. It will be within the 
recollection of almost every Member how well Lord Derby 
served the Society as President in the year 1904, and how 
generous he was in his contributions to the special fund raised 
in connection with the permanent show scheme. 
5. Sir Massey Lopes, who passed away in January last at 
the age of ninety, joined the Society as a Member in the year 
1848, He was elected to the Council in 1865, and was 
