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Monthly Council , April 1, 1908. 
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1908. 
At a Monthly Council, held at 16 Bedford Square, W.C., Mr. F. S. W. 
Cornwallis (Trustee) in the Chair 
Present : — Trustees . — The Earl of Coventry, Lord Middleton, Sir John H. 
Thorold, Bart. 
Vice-Presidents. — Mr. J. Bowen-Jones, Mr. Percy Crutchley, Mr. J. Marshall 
Dugdale, the Rt. Hon. A. E. Fellowes, 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, Mr. Richardson Carr, 
Sir H. F. de Trafford, Bart, Mr. J. T. C. Eadie, Mr. Howard Frank, Mr. J. W. 
Glover, Mr. R. M. Greaves, Sir Gilbert Greenall, Bart., Mr. Ernest A. Hamlyn, 
Mr. Joseph Harris, Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. R. W. Hobbs, Mr. W. F. Ingram, 
Sir Charles Y. Knightley, Bart., Mr. W. A. May, Mr. C. Middleton, Mr. T. H. 
Miller, Mr. R. G. Patterson, Mr. C. M. S. Pilkington, Mr. H. F. Plumptre, Mr. 
F. Reynard, Mr. John Rowell, Mr. E. W. Shackle, Mr. H. H. Smith, Mr. H. 
Tallent, Mr. George Taylor, Mr. John Thornton, Mr. C. W. Tindall, Mr. 
E. Y. V. Wheeler, and Mr. C. W. Wilson. 
In the unavoidable absence of the President (the Duke of Devonshire), Mr. 
F. S. W. Cornwallis (Trustee) was called to the chair, on the motion of the 
Right Hon. Ailwyn E. Fellowes. 
Mr. Cornwallis said that they were all but too well acquainted with The 
sad reason which prevented their President taking the Chair, and in taking his 
place that day he knew that he might express in the name of the Council their 
deepest sympathy with the President and the relatives of the late Duke of 
Devonshire, whose loss from the councils of the nation was universally felt to 
be a great public misfortune. Their Society was, like so many other public 
bodies, under a great obligation to the late Duke ; he was elected a Governor 
in 1880, and filled the office of President in the year 1894, when the Society 
visited Cambridge, of whose university he was Chancellor. Curiously, the late 
Duke’s father was President when the Society visited the sister University City 
of Oxford in 1870. It would also be fresh in the minds of Members of the 
Council how great an interest he showed in the Society’s visit to Derby in 
1906, and how much he contributed to the success of that visit by his powerful 
influence as Lord Lieutenant of the County and President of the Local Com- 
mittee. It was a matter of great satisfaction to the Council to know that 
that interest in the welfare of (he Society was so conspicuously maintained by 
their present President, who was the third of his family to fill the Presidential 
chair, and while extending to him their deepest sympathy, they wished him 
health and strength to perform the responsible duties cast upon him by the 
death of that distinguished statesman, whose loss the whole nation so deeply 
deplored. 
A letter had been received from Lord Knollys, stating that he was com- 
manded by T.M. the King and Queen to convey to the Council an expression 
of Their Majesties’ appreciation of the sympathy which had been expressed for 
them on the occasion of the assassination of King Carlos and the Crown Prince 
of Portugal. 
The Minutes of the last meeting of the Council held on February 26, 1908, 
were taken as read and approved. 
Mr. C. E. Gooch, of Wyvenhoe Park, Colchester, was elected a Governor, 
and 132 duly nominated candidates were admitted into the Society as Members 
under By-law 2. 
The Journal and Education Committee’s Report having been received 
and adopted, it was unanimously resolved, on the motion of Sir John 
Thorold, seconded by Mr. Adeane, that the best (hanks of the Society be^ 
conveyed to Major Craigie for the services he had rendered to the Society 
as editor of Vol. 68 of the Journal- 
