XXXVI 
Monthly Council, July 1 , 1908 . 
Mr. Alois Paikert (Custos of the Agricultural Museum, Budapest) 
drew attention to the fact that the two National Agricultural Societies of 
England and Hungary were established at almost the same time. The 
Hungarian Society was formed in the year 1831, and its objects were 
identical with those of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. He 
trusted that the cordial meeting that day between the representatives of the 
two Societies would result in their co-operating in future to achieve those 
objects. 
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1908. 
At a Monthly Council held in the large tent in the Newcastle Showyard, the 
Duke of Devonshire (President) in the Chair : — 
Present : — Trustees. — Mr. F. S. W. Cornwallis, the Earl of Coventry, Lord 
Moreton. 
Vice-Presidents. — Mr. J. Bowen-Jones, the Earl of Jersey, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., 
the Earl of Northbrook, the Hon. Cecil T. Parker. 
Other Members of the Council . — Mr. C. R. W. Adeane, Mr. T. L. Aveling, 
Mr. S. N. Bankart, Mr. H. Dent Brocklehuist, Mr. T. A. Buttar, Mr. R. G. 
Carden, Mr. Richardson Carr, Sir Richard P. Cooper, Bart., Mr. John T. C. 
Eadie, Mr. James Falconer, Mr. James W. Glover, Mr. R. M. Greaves, Sir 
Gilbert Greenall, Bart., Mr. Ernest A. Hamlyn, Mr. Joseph Harris, Mr. William 
Harrison, Mr. J. H. Hine, Mr. R. W. Hobbs, Mr. J. Howard Howard, Mr. 
George Lobb, Mr. Ernest Mathews, Mr. W. A. May, Mr. C. Middleton, Mr. 
T. H. Miller, Mr. T. S. Minton, Mr. C. M. S. Pilkington, Mr. G. G. Rea, Mr. F. 
Reynard, Mr. C. C. Rogers, Mr. John Rowell, Mr. E. W. Stanyforth, Mr. John 
Thornton, Mr. C. W. Tindall, and Mr. C. W. Wilson. 
The minutes of the last meeting of the Council, held on June 3, 1908, were 
taken as read and approved. 
The President said it was with feelings of very sincere regret that he had 
to announce officially the death of one of their Trustees, the Earl of Derby, 
who had been for a number of years so closely connected with the Society. 
Lord Derby had been elected a Member in 1874, a Governor in 1894, and 
joined the Council in the year 1895, since which time he had been successively 
Vice-President, in 1900, and Trustee in 1901. It would be within the recollec- 
tion not only of the Council, but of every Member, how well Lord Derby served 
the Society in the office of President in the year 1904, in succession to His 
Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. 
On the motion of Mi'. Adeane (Chairman of the Finance Committee), 
accounts amounting in all to 1,794/. 16*. 9 d. were passed for payment. 
The Report of a Special Meeting of the Committee of Selection held on 
June 25, 1908, at 16 Bedford Square, was received and adopted ; and, on the 
motion of Mr. Cornwallis, seconded by Mr. Adeane, the Duke of Devonshire 
was unanimously elected a Trustee of the Society in the room of the Earl of 
Derby, deceased. To fill the vacancy thus created, the Duke of Northumberland 
was, on the motion of the President, seconded by the Earl of Coventry, 
unanimously appointed a Vice-President of the Society. 
On the motion of Lord Moreton, seconded by Mr. Pilkington, the 
following were appointed a Special Committee “ to consider certain questions 
arising in connection with some of the live stock exhibited at the Newcastle 
Show” : — Sir Gilbert Greenall, Mr. Adeane, Mr. Harris, and Mr. Reynard. 
Other business having been transacted, the Council adjourned until Wed- 
nesday, July 29, 1908, at 16 Bedford Square. It was, however, agreed that a 
Special Council Meeting should be held towards the end of the Show for the 
purpose of passing votes of thanks to various individuals, firms, and companies 
who had rendered assistance to the Society in connection with the Exhibition. 
