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Monthly Council, March 7, 1894. 
Showyard Works. 
The Hon. C. T. Parker said that, 
owing to the regrettable and enforced 
absence of Sir Jacob Wilson, he had 
been voted to the chair at the meet- 
ing held on Tuesday. Mr. Bennison 
had enclosed the Showyard at Cam- 
bridge witli a high fence, and com- 
pleted the erection of the offices and 
timber-yard. The Local Committee 
were laying in the water mains, and 
had nearly completed the levelling of 
the yard. Promises had been received 
from various railway companies of the 
loan of sleepers to the Society free of 
cost for the purpose of constructing 
roads in the yard. The Committee 
recommended that the offer of Messrs. 
H. J. and C. Major to roof the dairy, 
and of the Patent Victoria Stone 
Company to pave the dairy, be ac- 
cepted on the same conditions as at 
the Chester Meeting. 
Selection. 
Earl Cathcart (Chairman) re- 
ported the recommendations of the 
Committee (1) that the Earl of Jer- 
sey, of Middleton Park, Bicester, be 
elected a member of Council in the 
room of the late Mr. Allender; (2) 
that Mr. S. Rowlandson be elected 
Steward of Forage for the Darling- 
ton Meeting of 1895 ; (3) that the 
Honorary Membership of the Society 
be conferred on Prof. G. D. Liveing, 
M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Chemistiy 
in the University of Cambridge, in 
recognition of his distinguished ser- 
vices to agriculture. 
Earl Cathcart, in formally moving 
the election of the Earl of Jersey as a 
member of the Council, said it would 
be remembered that when he was de- 
puted by the Council to communicate 
with Lord Jersey as to his retirement 
from the Council upon his proceeding 
to New South Wales as Governor of 
that Colony, he (Lord Cathcart) was 
authorised at the same time to say 
that they would be very happy to see 
him there again on his return to Eng- 
land. A vacancy having occurred 
through the lamented death of Mr. 
Allender, they were now in a position 
to ask Lord Jersey to resume his seat 
on the Council. 
Mr. Dent seconded the motion, 
which was unanimously agreed to. 
Election of an Honorary Member. 
Earl Cathcart, in moving that 
Professor Liveing, of Cambridge, be 
elected an Honorary Member of the 
Society, said that Professor Liveing 
was a very eminent man and a very 
distinguished chemist, whom the 
Society would desire in any case to 
honour. As the Society was going to 
Cambridge this year, there might 
perhaps be appropriateness in his 
election taking place now. 
Viscount Emlyn, Chairman of the 
Chemical Committee, seconded the 
motion, which was adopted unani- 
mously, and the Society’s Seal was 
authorised to be affixed to Prof. 
Liveing’s diploma. 
Dairy. 
The Hon. C. T. Parker (Chair- 
man) reported that a letter, dated 
February 20, 1894, had been received 
from the Great Eastern Railway 
Company, stating that at a meeting 
of the superintendents of the various 
companies, held at the Railway 
Clearing House on January 24, 
1894, it had been agreed “ that the 
companies in whose district the Show 
is held will be willing to undertake 
the cartage to and from the Showyard 
of the annual Meeting of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England of 
packages of poultry, and of produce — 
butter, &c. — not weighing more than 
7 lb., at the rate of 3d. per package 
each way, on the understanding that 
the charge is paid by the Society.” 
It is understood that if at any time 
the Showyard should be at an excep- 
tional distance from the railway sta- 
tion, the amount to be charged will 
have to be reconsidered. Various 
other matters connected with the 
Dairy Department at the Cambridge 
Meeting had also been arranged. 
Education Life Memberships. 
Mr. Pell, in moving, pursuant to 
notice, “That the Education Life 
Memberships conferred upon the 
winners of first-class certificates at 
the Society’s Senior Examination be 
discontinued after the present year,” 
said that he brought forward his 
motion some time ago, haviDg regard 
to the finances of the Society, and 
especially to the fact that the continu- 
