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dent undergraduate, would feel real 
pleasure in responding to a vote like 
that, because the University of Cam- 
bridge always extended the most 
brotherly welcome to any great 
enterprise which was taken in hand 
by the civic authorities, and no man 
knew better than their present Mayor 
— himself a distinguished member 
of King’s College — what his brother 
King’s man the Vice-Chancellor felt 
on this occasion. Each one of them 
deeply felt not only what they owed 
to the Cambridge Corporation, but 
also what they owed to the great 
science of agriculture itself. He 
would not attempt to measure their 
comparative antiquities ; he would 
not attempt to foresee which of them 
would outlive the other ; but he 
might say that the University of 
Cambridge had only within the last 
few years given special proof of its 
interest in agriculture, and of its deep 
sense of the paramount importance of 
that great art or science— call it what 
they would — by incorporating it as 
one of the branches of the University 
curriculum. He begged to return 
them, on behalf of the University 
and on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor, 
their most sincere and hearty thanks 
for the kindness with which their vote 
had been passed. 
Suggestions of Members. 
In response to the usual inquiry as 
to whether any Governor or member 
had any remarks to make or sugges- 
tions to offer for the consideration of 
the Council, 
The Hon. and Rev. A. Baillie- 
Hamiltox drew attention to the 
diminution in the number and value 
of the prizes allotted by the Society 
to the breed of Guernsey cattle, and 
hoped that the Council would take 
the matter into consideration in pre- 
paring the prize-sheet for the next 
year’s Meeting. 
Mr. Christopher Stephenson 
supported these views. 
Mr. C. F. Hope advocated a slight 
revision of the regulations for the ex- 
hibition of cheese. 
Vote of Thanks to retiring President. 
On the motion of Earl Cadogan, 
seconded by Mr. A. B, Freesian-Mit- 
ford, C.B., M.P., a vote of thanks 
was unanimously accorded to His 
Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G., 
for his services as President during 
the past year. 
The President, in reply, said : — I 
rise for the purpose of returning, in 
the fewest possible words, my very 
sincere and grateful thanks to my 
friends Lord Cadogan and Mr. Mit- 
ford for the kind way in which they 
have proposed this vote of thanks, 
and to you, gentlemen, for the man- 
ner in which you have been pleased to 
receive it. As to the services of 
which the resolution speaks, they 
have been of a very light and almost 
nominal character ; but it has given 
me great pleasure and satisfaction to 
have obtained some insight into and 
knowledge of the manner in which 
the work of this great Society is con- 
ducted. That work is carried on almost 
entirely by the Council through the 
agency of numerous Committees, and 
I believe that few even of the mem- 
bers of this Society are fully aware of 
the great amount of conscientious 
work which is voluntarily undertaken 
by the members of the Council in 
their Committees. The work of 
organising these great annual 
Country Meetings, of making all the 
arrangements for their success, and 
for the proper distribution of the 
funds at your disposal — that work of 
organisation is in itself of no light 
character. But, in addition to the 
large amount of labour which devolves 
upon the Committees and the Council 
in organising and making the pre- 
parations for these Meetings, a very 
large amount of useful work is also 
done by the Veterinary, the Chemical, 
the Education, the Journal, and other 
numerous Committees, which are 
occupied through a very large portion 
of the year in obtaining, arranging, 
collecting, and publishing informa- 
tion of all kinds of a most useful and 
practical character for the agricultural 
community. The duties of the Presi- 
dent, as I have said, are little more 
than nominal. They are simply to 
preside at the monthly meetings of 
