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did he consider that they were called 
upon to give away Life Memberships 
at all. He trusted that the Council 
would not rescind the resolution, and 
he should certainly vote against 
Mr. Ransome’s motion. 
Sir Jacob Wilson said that since 
the resolution was passed there ap- 
peared to have arisen a very strong 
feeling, both inside and outside that 
building, that the question had not 
been completely discussed ; therefore, 
if there should be any doubt about 
the matter, the present gave an op- 
portunity for having it thoroughly 
threshed out de novo, and it was only 
fair and just that it should be recon- 
sidered. Let them not make a mis- 
take for want of time in the discussion 
of this matter. 
Colonel Curtis-Hayward, speak- 
ing as one with an open mind upon 
this question, asked what was the 
opinion of the Education Committee 
upon the subject. 
Lord Moreton said that to simplify 
matters he might say that, in case Mr. 
Ransome’s motion for the rescinding 
of the resolution were carried out, the 
Committee intended to propose that 
in future there should be five Life 
Memberships given annually, but that 
those who received them would have 
to gain at least two-thirds of the 
maximum number of marks. 
Earl Cathcart said that they 
should not lose sight of what was done 
by the Surveyors’ Institution. Young 
men intending to become land agents 
especially desired to pass the examina- 
tion of that Institution, because it was 
very strict, and because of the import- 
ance attached to it in courts of law. 
After some further discuss’on, in 
which Lord Egerton of Tatton, the 
President, Sir Jacob Wilson, Mr. 
Crutchley, Viscount Emlyn, Mr. 
Dugdale, Lord Moreton, and Mr. 
Sutton took part, Mr. Ransome’s 
motion was put, and declared carried 
by fourteen votes to thirteen. It was 
then decided that the whole matter 
should be postponed for consideration 
after the autumn reces®, and that 
meanwhile facts and statistics on the 
subject should be printed and circu- 
lated amongst the members of the 
Council. 
Dairy. 
The Hon. Cecil T. Parker (Chair- 
man) reported that the Committee 
had considered the following sugges- 
tion made by Mr. Hope at the General 
Meeting in the Showyard at Cambridge 
on Tuesday, June 26, 1891 : — “ That 
the rules relating to the exhibition of 
cheese should be altered to admit of 
the entry of cheesemakers who are 
accustomed to hire cows from farmers 
for the purpose of turning the milk of 
such cows into cheese,” and, seeing no 
objection to this alteration, recom- 
mended that therule be altered accord- 
ingly. The Steward of Dairying had 
been requested to give effect at future 
Country Meetings to a suggestion 
made by the judges of butter at Cam- 
bridge, that the butter at future shows 
should be left exposed as cut by the 
judges, in order that the public might 
be in a position to appreciate the differ- 
ences between the respective exhibits. 
Country Meeting of 1893. 
Invitations from the authorities of 
Leicester and Northampton for the 
holding of the Society’s Country 
Meeting of 1896 were laid before the 
Council, and, on the motion of the 
Hon. Cecil T. Parker, seconded by 
Sir Jacob Wilson, it was resolved : — 
“ That a Committee of Inspection be 
appointed to visit and examine the 
various sites and other accommodation 
offered by different towns for the pur- 
poses of the Country Meeting of 1896, 
and to report thereon to the Council 
at their meeting to be held on Novem- 
ber 7, 1894.” 
Upon the recommendation of the 
Committee of Selection, and on the 
motion of Earl Cathcart, the Com- 
mittee of Inspection was constituted 
of the President, the Earl of Coventry, 
the Hon. C. T. Parker, Mr. E. V. V 
Wheeler, Mr. S. Rowlandson, Mr. J. P. 
Terry, and the Secretary. 
Miscellaneous. 
Various letters and other documents 
having been laid upon the table, and 
the date of the General Meeting in 
December having been fixed for 
Thursday, December 13, 1894, the 
Council adjourned over the autumn 
recess until Wednesday, November 7, 
next, at noon. 
