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Lancashire Society would withhold its Annual Show on the occasion of the 
Society’s visit to Liverpool. All difficulties having been swept away, the 
Societies would now co-operate in endeavouring to make the Show of 1910 a 
great success. 
The following Standing Committees were appointed for 1909 : — Finance, 
Journal and Education, Chemical and Woburn, Botanical and Zoological, 
Veterinary, Stock Prizes, Implement, Showyard Works, Selection, and Dairy 
and Produce. The present Members of the various Committees were (with 
some exceptions) re-appointed to those Committees. Viscount Ridley and 
Mr. Louis C. Wrigley were added to the Journal and Education and Stock 
Prizes Committees, Mr. W. J. Hosken to the Chemical and Woburn and Stock 
Prizes Committees, Mr. W. A. May to the Chemical and Woburn Committee, 
Mr. F. Smith to the Stock Prizes Committee, and the Duke of Devonshire, 
Mr. H. Dent Brocklehurst, and Mr. G. G. Rea to the Committee of Selection. 
Other business having been transacted, the Council adjourned until 
Wednesday, February 3, 1909, at 11 a.m. 
proceedings at tbe annual 
General flDeeting of (Bovernors and Members, 
HELD AT THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON, 
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1908. 
THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE (PRESIDENT) IN THE CHAIR. 
Present: — Trustees. — Mr. F. S. W. Cornwallis, Lord Middleton, Sir John H. 
Thorold, Bart. 
Vice-Presidents. — 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. C. R. W. Adeane, Mr. T. L. Aveling, 
Mr. H. Dent Brocklehurst, Mr. T. A. Buttar, Mr. R. G. Carden, Sir R. P. 
Cooper, Bart., Mr. Henry Dudding, Mr. J. Falconer, Mr. Howard Frank, 
Mr. J. W. Glover, Mr. R. M. Greaves, Sir Gilbert Greenall, Bart., Mr. E. A. 
Hamlyn, Mr. J. Harris, Mr. J. H. Hine, Mr. J. Howard Howard, Mr. W. F. 
Ingram, Sir C. V. Knightley, Bart., Mr. Ernest Mathews, Mr. W. A. May, 
Mr. T. H. Miller, Mr. C. M. S. Pilkington, Mr. F. Reynard, Mr. John Rowell, 
Mr. W. Scoby, Mr. Fred. Smith, Mr. R. Stratton, Mr. H. Tallent, Mr. C. W. 
Tindall, Mr. A. P. Turner, Mr. E. V. V. Wheeler, and Mr. Louis C. Wrigley. 
Governors. — Mr. Alfred Ashworth, Mr. R. C. Assheton, Mr. T. G. Benn, 
Mr. Terah F. Hooley, Mr. H. H. Vivian. 
Members . — The Hon. C. B. Portman, Sir Herbert Chermside, G.C.M.G., Sir 
Oswald Mosley, Bart., Sir Francis Walker, Bart., Messrs. J. A. Adams, R. J. 
Aspinall, W. Bainbridge, N. Benjafield, W. J. Bennison, C. F. Benson, T. Brigg, 
A. Britten, John Bryan, Roland Burke, Colin Campbell, James Chalcraft, 
J. C. Jesser Coope, F. S. Courtney, Major P. G. Craigie, C.B., Messrs. J. C. 
Daubuz, F. F. Downward, Douglas Ellis, W. England, George Gibbons, John 
Evens, Major R. M. Foot, Messrs. W. Fortune, J. T. Hobbs, Surgeon Lt.-Col. 
J. Ince, M.D., Messrs. Dunbar Kelly, John Kendrick, J. Pittman King, 
J. Lambshead, W. Langridge, the Rev. Cecil H. Legard, Messrs. F. D. Little, 
A. McNeilage, W. Madge, S. Mager, Joseph Martin, T. May, W. N. Mead, 
B. Middleton, H. C. Minchin, W. Mitchell, H. F. Moore, W. J. Morton, W. Nichol, 
W. Nisbet, J. Brittain Pash, Professor J. Penberthy, Messrs. T. F. Plowman, 
F. E. Rands, E. C. Ransome, John Richards, J. Rooke, George Scoby, G. F. 
Sheppard, E. W. Shepperson, C. F. Simmons, S. Simpson, C. N. Skinner, A. J. 
