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Monthly Council, Novemher 2, 1892. 
The Hon. Cecil Paekeb, in refer- 
ence to the paragraph recommend- 
ing co-operation with the Agricultural 
Exhibitors’ Association, thought the 
Society ought not to be pledged to 
take action against the railway com- 
panies. 
Mr. Clay explained that the 
cartage to and from the showyard at 
Warwick appeared to the exhibitors 
to be excessive. The amount charged 
was 6s. per ton each way. That was 
a charge of 10s. per ton for all de- 
scriptions of machinery and imple- 
ments carted to and from the show- 
yard. The Committee came to the 
conclusion that it might be made the 
duty of the Inspection Committee, at 
their visit of inspection, to ask the 
railway company what rates they in- 
tended to charge if the show w'ere 
brought to the town inspected. Of 
course, if no arrangements were made 
beforehand, he supposed the com- 
panies felt themselves at liberty to 
charge what they thought fit. In 
order to obviate this, more parti- 
cular instructions might be given to 
their Inspection Committee on that 
point. The Committee guarded them- 
selves by saying “co-operation with 
the Exhibitors’ Association as far as 
possible.” 
Mr. Dent thought the resolution 
went farther than 5Ir. Clay had 
indicated. There was a request made 
by this Association that exhibitors 
should have reduced fares for them- 
selves, and not for carting of goeds 
alone. It was a matter which would 
have to go before a meeting of the 
general managers of the various 
companies. The question now raised 
was a much larger one than merely 
of carting to and from the station. 
Mr. Sanday thought that it was 
not a question of antagonism to the 
railway companies. What the Ex- 
hibitors’ Association asked was, that 
the Society should help them to 
obtain certain concessions which the 
Showyard Works Committee did not 
think unreasonable. It behoved the 
Society to look after the interests of 
the exhibitors at the shows as well as 
of members of the Society, and he 
saw no objection to the course pro- 
posed by the Committee. 
After some further discussion, the 
report was agreed to. 
Committee of Selection. 
Earl Cathcaet (Chairman) re- 
ported the recommendation of the 
Committee that the honorary mem- 
bership of the Society should be con- 
ferred upon Professor Dr. Maercker, 
of the Versuchs-Station, Halle, Ger- 
many, in recognition of his distin- 
guished services to European agricul- 
ture. The Committee had considered 
a memorandum prepared by the 
Secretary on the holding of the 
anniversary General Meeting of 1893, 
the date for which appointed by the 
Charter falls next year upon Whit 
Monday, and they recommended that 
R pro formd meeting be held on that 
day in order to comply with the terms 
of the Charter, and that such meeting 
be immediately adjourned to the 
following Monday, May 29, 1893. 
They also recommended that the 
last Council meeting before the 
Chester Meeting be held on the fol- 
lowing Wednesday, May 31, instead 
of Wednesday, June 7. 
Election of Honorary Member. 
Lord Cathcaet, in moving that 
Professor Maercker be elected an 
Honorary Member of the Society, and 
that the Seal of the Society be affixed 
to his diploma of honorary member- 
ship, said that the Professor was one 
of the most distinguished of living 
chemists, and he had no hesitation in 
proposing him for the honorary mem- 
bership, believing that he would 
confer upon the Society as much 
honour as the Society conferred upon 
him. 
Mr. Whitehead seconded the 
motion, which was adopted unani- 
mously. 
Education. 
Lord Moeeton (Chairman) re- 
ported that the question of the pub- 
lishing price of the forthcoming fourth 
edition of the Society’s Text-book 
on Agriculture had been considered, 
and the Committee recommended 
that the price of the new edition be 
fixed at 3i'. Gd., in consideration of the 
extra cost incurred for the production 
of entirely new illustrations, and the 
increased number of pages. The new 
edition would contain thirty-six more 
pages than the others, and would 
include 266 original illustrations from 
