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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
IProceefcmGS of tbc Council, 
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1894. 
THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G. (PRESIDENT), IN THE CHAIR, 
Present : 
Trustees. — Gen. Viscount Bridport, 
G.C.B., Earl Cathcart, Mr. John 
Dent Dent, Col. Sir Nigel Kingscote, 
K.C.B., Sir A. K. Macdonald, Bart., 
the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, 
K.G., Right Hon. Sir M. W. Ridley, 
Bart., M.P. 
Vice-Presidents. — H.U.H. Prince 
Christian, K.G., Mr. Chandos-Pole- 
Gell, Lord Moreton. 
Other Members of Council. — Mr. J. 
Bowen-Jones, Mr. Charles Clay, Earl 
of Coventry, Mr. Percy E. Crutchley, 
Lieut.-Col. J. F. Curtis-Hayward, Mr. 
Alfred Darby, Mr. J. Marshall 
Dugdale, Mr. S. P. Foster, Mr. W. 
Frankish, Mr. Hugh Gorringe, Mr. 
Anthony Hamond, Mr. James 
Hornsby, Mr. Joseph Martin, Mr. 
T. H. Miller, Mr. P. A. Muntz, M.P., 
Mr. R. Neville- Grenville, Hon. Cecil 
T. Parker, Mr. J. E. Ransome, Mr. 
J. Rawlence, Mr. S. Rowlandson, 
Mr. G. H. Sanday, Mr. W. T. Scartli, 
Mr. A. J. Smith, Mr. Henry Smith, 
Sir J. L. E. Spearman, Bart., Mr. R. 
Stratton, Mr. J. P. Terry, Mr. John 
Tremayne, the Duke of Westminster, 
K. G., Mr. C. W. Wilson. 
Professor Brown, C.B. ; Mr. F. W. 
Wragg, President of the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons. 
Officers. — Mr. Ernest Clarke, Secre- 
tary ; Dr. Fream, Editor of the 
Journal ; Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker, 
Consulting Chemist; Mr. Wilson 
Bennison, Surveyor. 
The following members of the 
Cambridge Local Committee were 
also present The Mayor (Mr. E. H. 
Parker), Mr. Charles Bid well, Mr. 
G. Jonas, Rev. E. H. Morgan, the 
Town Clerk (Mr. J. E. L. Whitehead), 
and Mr. R. Peters (Secretary of the 
Local Committee). 
Apologies for non-attendance were 
received from Sir John Thorold, Bart., 
Sir Jacob Wilson, Mr. J. H. Arkwright, 
Mr. Alfred Ashworth, Mr. Joseph 
Beach, Mr. J. A. Caird, Mr. Charles 
Howard, Mr. Albert Pell, Mr. Martin J. 
Sutton, Mr. R. A. Warren, Mr. E. V. V. 
Wheeler, and Mr. Charles Whitehead. 
Death of a Member of Council. 
The minutes of the last monthly 
Council, held on December Gth, 1893, 
having been approved, 
The Duke of Westminster (who 
had temporarily taken the chair 
pending the arrival of the President) 
made a feeling allusion to the los3 
which the Council had sustained 
since their last meeting through the 
lamented death, under circumstances 
of peculiar painfulness, of their col- 
league, Mr. George Mander Allend er. 
Mr. Allender had been associated 
with the Society as a member for the 
long period of thirty-five years ; but 
it was only in comparatively recent 
times that the Council had had the 
advantage of his practical mind and 
business acumen in the deliberations 
at their meetings. Those who were 
associated with the memorable show 
of 1879 at Kilburn would remember 
his activity as Steward of Forage, and 
in the general organisation of that 
Meeting. He was elected a member 
