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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND, 
proceedings of tbe Council. 
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 , 1894. 
SIR JOHN H. THOROLD, BART. (PRESIDENT), IN THE CHAIR. 
Present : 
Trustees . — Earl Cathcart, Mr. John 
Dent Dent, Lord Egerton of Tatton, 
Col. Sir Nigel Kingscote, K.C.B., 
Sir A. K. Macdonald, Bart., Kt. Hon. 
Sir W. M. Ridley, Bart., M.P. 
Vice-Presidents. — Sir Walter 
Gilbey, Bart., Lord Moreton, Earl 
Spencer, K.G., Mr. Charles White- 
head. 
Other Members of Council. — Mr. 
J. H. Arkwright, Mr. Alfred Ash- 
worth, Mr. J. Bowen-Jones, Lord 
Brougham and Vaux, Mr. J. A. 
Caird, Mr. Charles Clay, Mr. F. S. W. 
Cornwallis, M.P., Lieut.-Col. J. F. 
Curtis-Hay ward, Mr. Alfred Darby, 
Mr. J. Marshall Dugdale, Mr. S. P. 
Foster, Mr. W. Frankish, Mr. Hugh 
Gorringe, Mr. Anthony Hamond, 
Mr. James Hornsby, the Earl of 
Jersey, Mr. C. S. Mainwaring, Mr. 
Joseph Martin, Mr. T. H. Miller, Hon. 
Cecil T. Parker, Mr. Albert Pell, Mr. 
Dan. Pidgeon, Mr. J. E. Ransome, 
Mr. S. Rowlandson, Mr. Howard P. 
Ryland, Mr. G. H. Sanday, Mr. A. J. 
Smith, Mr. Henry Smith, Mr. E. W. 
Stanyforth, Mr. Richard Stratton, 
Mr. Martin J. Sutton, Mr. J. P. Terry, 
Mr. John Tremayne, Mr. R. A. Warren, 
the Duke of Westminster, K.G., Mr. 
E. V. V. Wheeler, Sir Jacob Wilson. 
Officers. — Mr. Ernest Clarke, Secre- 
tary ; Dr. Fream, Editor of the 
Journal ; Dr. J. Augustus Yoelcker, 
Consulting Chemist ; Professor Si- 
monds and Professor Brown, C.B., 
Consulting Veterinary Surgeons. 
VOL. V. T. S. — 20 
The following members of the 
Darlington Local Committee were also 
present Captain Gerald Walker, 
the Borough Surveyor (Mr. Thomas 
Smith), and Mr. F. Raymond Steaven- 
son (Secretary of the Local Com- 
mittee). 
Apologies for non-attendance were 
received from the Earl of Coventry, 
Viscount Bridport, G.C B., Right Hon. 
Sir Massey Lopes, Bart., Mr. Joseph 
Beach, Mr. Ckandos-Pole-Gell, Sir J. 
L. E. Spearman, Bart., and Mr. Charles 
Howard. 
The Society’s New House. 
The President, in opening the 
proceedings, expressed his pleasure at 
being in the chair on this the first 
meeting of the Council in that beauti- 
ful house. He was also very glad at 
being supported by those who had 
enabled the Society to obtain it. As 
they were aware, on the occasion of 
the complimentary dinner given by 
Members of Council to the Duke of 
Westminster and Sir Walter Gilbey, 
on Monday evening, the following 
telegram had been despatched by 
him to his Royal Highness the Prince 
of Wales at Livadia : — “ The Council 
of the Royal Agricultural Society 
deeply deplore the sad cause of your 
Royal Highness’s absence from their 
gathering to-day, and they desire to 
express their respectful sympathy with 
the Princess, your Royal Highness, 
and the Imperial Family.” He (the 
President) had yesterday received 
the following telegraphic reply from 
his Royal Highness: — “We thank 
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