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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1892. 
THE EARL OF FE7ERSHAM (PRESIDENT) IN THE CHAIR. 
Present; — 
T)-ustees . — Earl Cathcart, Mr. John 
Dent Dent, Lord Egerton of Tatton, 
Earl of Ravensworth, Duke of Rich- 
mond and Gordon, K.G., Sir M. W. 
Ridley, Bart., M.P. 
Vice-Presidents. — Mr. H. Chandos- 
Pole-Gell, Earl of Lathom, Sir Massey 
Lopes, Bart., Lord Moreton, Sir J. H. 
Thorold, Bart., Mr. Charles White- 
head. 
Other Members. of Council. — Mr. G. 
M. Allender, Mr. J. H. Arkwright, Mr. 
Alfred Ashworth, Mr. Joseph Beach, 
Mr. J. Bowen-Jones, Mr. Charles Clay, 
Earl of Coventry, Lieut.-Col. J. F. 
Curtis-Hayward, Mr. Alfred Darby, 
Mr. J. Marshall Dugdale, Mr. William 
Frankish, Mr. R. Neville Gremdlle, 
Mr. Anthony Hamond, Mr. James 
Hornsby, Mr. Charles Howard, Mr. 
C. S. Mainwaring, Mr. Joseph Martin, 
Mr. T. H. Miller, Mr. P. A. Muntz, 
M.P., Hon. Cecil T. Pai'ker, Mr. Albert 
Pell, Mr. Dan. Pidgeon, Mr. J. E. Ran- 
some, Mr. S. Rowlandson, Mr. G. H. 
Sanday, Mr. W. T. Scarth, Mr. A. J. 
Smith, Mr. Henry Smith, Marquis of 
Stafford, Mr. E. W. Stanyforth, Mr. 
Martin J. Sutton, Mr. Garrett Taylor, 
Mr. J. P. Terry, Mr. John Tremayne, 
Mr. R. A. Warren, Mr. E. V. V. 
Wheeler, Mr. C. W. Wilson. 
Officers. — Mr. Ernest Clarke, Secre- 
tary and Editor ; Dr. J. Augustus 
Voelcker, Consulting Chemist ; Mr. 
^Vilson Bennison, Surveyor. 
Mr. A. C. Cope, of the Board of 
Agriculture. 
The following members of the 
Warwick Local Committee were also 
present : — Lord E. J. Seymour, the 
Mayor of Warwick (Mr. J. W. Mann), 
the Mayor of Leamington (Mr. John 
D. Barbour), the Town Clerk of War- 
wick (Mr. Brabazon Campbell), Mr. 
J. W. Margetts, Mr. T. H. G. Newton, 
and Mr. Frederick H. Moore (Secretary 
of the Local Committee). 
Apologies for Non-Attendance. 
Apologies for non-attendance were 
received from General Viscount Brid- 
port, G.C.B., Viscount Emlyn, Lord 
Brougham and Vaux, Col. Sir Nigel 
Kingscote, K.C.B., Sir Jacob Wilson, 
and Mr. Walter Gilbey. 
The late Duke of Clarence. 
The minutes of the last meeting of 
Council held on February 3 having 
been approved. 
The President announced that, in 
obedience to the instructions given by 
the Council, the Addresses of Condo- 
lence to Her Majesty the Queen and 
to Their Royal Highnesses the Prince 
and Princess of Wales had been en- 
grossed on vellum, enclosed in appro- 
priate boxes, and sent to the Secretary 
of State for the Home Department,' 
and to the Comptroller and Treasurer 
to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. From 
the latter the following reply had been 
received, which the Council would 
doubtless -wish to have entered upon 
the minutes : — 
Sandringham, Norfolk. 
General Sir Dighton Probyn is de- 
sired to convey to the President and 
Council of the Royal Agricultural 
Society, the sincere thanks of the 
Prince and Princess of Wales, for 
the warm sympathy they have ex- 
pressed on the occasion of Their 
Royal Highnesses’ great bereave- 
ment. 
2-lth February, 1892. 
‘ After the rising of the Council, the following 
letter was received from the Secretary of 
State for the Home Department : 
Whitehall, 2nd March, 1892. 
My Lord, — I have had the honour to lay 
before the Queen the loyal and dutiful Address 
of the President and Council of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England, on the oc- 
casion of the death of His Royal Highness the 
Duke of Clarence and Avon^le, K.G. ; and I 
have to inform your Lordship that Her 
Majesty was pleased to receive the Address 
very graciously. 
I have the honour to be, my Lord, 
Your Lordship’s obedient servant, 
(Signed) Hesry Matthews. 
Earl of Feversham. 
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