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[Copies of the full Report of any of the Council Meetings held during the year 
1908 may be obtained on application to the Secretary, at 16 Bedford Square, 
London, W.C.] 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY DF ENGLAND. 
flMnutes of the Council. 
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1908. 
At a Monthly Council, held at 16 Bedford Square, W.C., the Right Hon. 
Victoe Cavendish, M.P. (President) in the Chair : — 
Present : — 'Trustees . — The Earl of Coventry, Lord Middleton, Lord Moreton, 
Sir John H. Thorold, Bart. 
Vice-Presidents. — Mr. J. Bowen-Jones, Mr. Percy Crutchley, the Earl of 
Jersey, G.C.B., the Earl of Northbrook. 
Other Members of the Council. — Mr. George Adams, Mr. Charles R. W. 
Adeane, Mr. T. L. Aveling, Mr. H. Dent Brocklehurst, Sir Richard P. Cooper, 
Bart., Mr. J. Falconer, Mr. Howard Frank, Mr. R. M. Greaves, Sir Gilbert 
Greenall, Bart., Mr. Ernest A. Hamlyn, Mr. Joseph Harris, Mr. W. Harrison, 
Mr. Arthur Hiscock, Mr. R. W. Hobbs, Mr. J. Howard Howard, Mr. Ernest 
Mathews, Mr. W. A. May, Mr. C. Middleton, Mr. T. H. Miller, Mr. W. 
Nocton, Mr. R. G. Patterson, Mr. F. Reynard, the Duke of Richmond and 
Gordon, K.G., Mr. C. C. Rogers, Mr. E. W. Shackle, Mr. Fred Smith, Mr. E. W. 
Stanyforth, Mr. R. Stratton, Mr. George Taylor, Mr. John Thornton, and 
Mr. E. V. V. Wheeler. 
The following Members of the Newcastle Local Committee were also 
present: — Mr. John Fitzgerald, Mr. J. M. Oubridge, Mr. Johnstone Wallace, 
and Mr. A. M. Oliver (Local Secretary). 
Mr. Cavendish, at the commencement of the proceedings, said that, as he 
was occupying the Chair for the first time, he desired alto express his gratitude 
for the honour that had been conferred upon him. He was the third of his 
family to occupy the position of President of the Society, and he did so with 
the greatest possible pleasure. He hoped that, with the kind indulgence and 
support of the Council, he would be able to carry on the great work of the 
Society in the way his predecessors had done, and he felt confident that he 
could rely upon the support of the Council during his year of office. 
The President then said he had to announce, with great regret, the death, 
on January 15, of Sir Massey Lopes, who had been for many years closely 
connected with the Society. Sir Massey, who had reached the age of ninety, 
joined the Council in the year 1865 and was President of the Society in 1885, 
in which year the Annual Country Meeting was held at Preston. In the 
same year he was elected a Vice-President, and continued his association with 
the Council until the year 1905, when he retired. 
The Minutes of the last meeting of the Council, held on Wednesday, 
December 1 1, 1907, were taken as read and approved. 
Earl Winterton, M.P., Mr. R. O. Lamb, and Mr. Fairfax Rhodes were 
elected Governors, and 151 duly nominated candidates were admitted into the 
Society as Members under By-law 2. The name of one Member (Mr. B. H. B. 
Gadd) was restored to the Registers under By-law 14. 
The Report of the Finance Committee was received and adopted, and 
a request from the recently-formed Tuberculosis (Animals) Committee for 
