XXXIV 
Monthly Council, June 3 , 1908 . 
The Report of the Committee of Selection jvas received and adopted, 
including a recommendation that the name of the Earl of Jersey be suggested 
to the Annual General Meeting of Members in December next, as President of 
the Society for the year 1909. 
The Secretary announced that the Trustees of the “ Queen Victoria 
Gifts” Fund had decided to make a grant to the Royal Agricultural Benevolent 
Institution of 1402. for the year 1908, to be distributed as fourteen grants of 
102. each to the five male candidates, five married couples, and four female 
candidates who polled the largest number of votes in their class, and who 
would not this year receive grants from any other fund in connection with the 
Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution. 
Other business having been transacted, the Council adjourned until Wednes- 
day, June 3 (Derby Day), 1908, at 10.30 a.m. 
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1908. 
At a Monthly Council, held at 16 Bedford Square, W.C., the Duke of 
Devonshire (President) in the Chair : — 
Present : — Trustee . — Sir John H. Thorold, Bart. 
Vice-Presidents. — H.R.H. Prince Christian, K.G., Mr. J. Bowen-Jones, 
Mr. Percy Crutchley, 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 Richard P. Cooper, Bart., Sir H. F. de Trafford, Bart., Mr. J. Falconer, 
Mr. Howard Frank, Mr. R. M. Greaves, Sir Gilbert Greenall, Bart., Mr. E. A. 
Hamlyn, Mr. Joseph Harris, Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. Arthur Hiscock, Mr. R. W. 
Hobbs, Mr. George Lobb, Mr. Ernest Mathews, Mr. T. S. Minton, Mr. W. 
Nocton, M. R. G. Patterson, Mr. G. G. Rea, Mr. F. Reynard, Mr. C. C. Rogers, 
Mr. E. W. Shackle, Mr. E. W. Stanyforth, Mr. H. Tailent, Mr. George Taylor, 
Mr. C. W. Tindall, and Mr. C. W. Wilson. 
The following Members of the Newcastle Local Committee were also 
present : — Mr. William Chrystal and Mr. Johnstone Wallace. 
The minutes of the last meeting of the Council, held on May 6, 1908, 
were taken as read and approved. 
Mr. Ernest C. Bingham, of Yeoveney Lodge, Staines, Middlesex, was elected 
a Governor, and ninety-six duly nominated candidates were admitted into the 
Society as Members under By-law 2. 
On the motion of Mr. Adeane, it was resolved : “ That the Secretary be 
empowered to issrfe to any duly nominated candidate for membership of the 
Society, on receipt of the annual subscription, a special ticket admitting the 
candidate to the same privileges as a Member during the forthcoming Show at 
Newcastle-on-Tyne ; the formal election of such candidate to be considered 
by the Council at their next Ordinary Meeting.” 
Mr. Bowen-Jones, in moving the adoption of the Report of the Chemical 
Committee, said that it would be within the recollection of the Council that at 
the last meeting one of the cases in the Consulting Chemist’s Report presented 
on that occasion had been referred back to the Committee for further 
consideration. Since then the Society’s Solicitors had been consulted, and as 
the result it had been decided to recommend that the name of the vendors of 
the material in question should be published. The Committee were of opinion 
that the time had arrived when more drastic action should be taken by the 
Society. It often transpired that when a Member found out from the 
Consulting Chemist’s analysis that a material was not worth the money paid 
for it, he made a bargain with the vendors, and generally informed the 
Committee that he thought those vendors were honourable people who had 
made a mistake and would not do it again. The Committee were of opinion 
