clxxvi 
Monthly Council , November 7, 1894. 
Darlington Meeting had been con- 
sidered, revised, and finally approved, 
and the Committee recommended 
that a copy, as amended, be sent to 
each Member of Council, with a view 
to their formal adoption at the 
December meeting. The Committee 
had considered the recommendation 
of the Dairy Committee, that in future 
no exhibitor should be allowed to 
hold at his stand any demonstration 
of the churning of butter or the sepa- 
ration of cream, and recommended the 
insertion of a regulation to this effect 
in the prize-sheet. 
The Committee approved the recom- 
mendations of the Judges of miscel- 
laneous implements at the Cambridge 
Meeting, that two machines, entered 
as new implements at that Meeting, 
viz., the potato-picking machine ex- 
hibited by Mr. William J. Burgess, of 
Magdalen, Lynn, and the stone-pick- 
ing machine exhibited by Messrs. J. 
Woods and Co ,of Stowmarket, should 
be allowed to go forward as “ new 
implements ” at the Darlington Meet- 
ing, provided the entries were received 
in the regular course. 
General Darlington. 
Mr. Dent 1 reported that the Com- 
mittee had considered the list of 
prizes proposed to be offered by the 
Local Committee, with the suggestions 
of the Stock Prizes Committee, and 
had referred back the list for further 
consideration. 
Showyard Works. 
Sir Jacob Wilson (Chairman) re- 
ported that since the last meeting 
1 This was, unhappily, tlie last appearance 
of Mr. Dent at tlie Society's Council Meetings, 
at which he had been a regular attendant 
during the long period of over thirty-three 
years. Elected to the Council in 1861, when 
he was less than thirty-five, he speedily took a 
leading and influential share in the Society’s 
deliberations, both in Committee and Council. 
He was an active Member of the Journal 
Committee (of which he was Chairman from 
1874 until his election to the Presidency in 
1881), of the Chemical and Veterinary Com- 
mittees, and of the Education Committee (of 
which he was Chairman on two occasions), 
besides being a member of almost all the 
special committees appointed from time to 
time to consider the administration of the 
Society. He died on December 22, 1894, aged 
sixty-eight, leaving behind him an imperish- 
able record of conscientious work for the 
Society’s welfare. — E. C. 
the Surveyor had cleared away the 
whole of the Society’s plant from Cam- 
bridge, and had erected the entrances 
and stored away the plant at Darling- 
ton Mr. Bennison had presented a 
detailed statement of the cost of the 
various works in the Showyard at 
Cambridge, from which it appeared 
that, after deducting the amount 
realised by sales of materials and 
received from exhibitors and purveyors 
(4,972/. 9s.), the total cost was 5,761/. 
5s. 8d. The Committee recommended 
the acceptance of the tenders (1) 
of Messrs. Richard Wade & Sons, 
of Hull, for the supply of timber at 
Darlington ; (2) of Messrs. Walter 
Hill & Co for the advertising of the 
Darlington Meeting. They also recom- 
mended that in future there be two 
reserved stands on either side of 
the Royal Stand at the horse-ring, one 
to be for complimentary tickets to be 
issued by the executive of the Show, 
and the other to have numbered 
seats, to be charged for at the rate 
of 5s. each for the first three days of 
the Show, and 2s. 6 d. for the other 
two days. 
Selection. 
The Hon. Cecil T. Parker re- 
ported the Committee’s recommend- 
ation that Lieut.-Col. Curtis-Hay ward 
be appointed a Steward of Stock, that 
Mr. Frankish be appointed a Steward 
of Implements, and that Mr. Rowland- 
son be appointed to supervise the 
trials of haymakers and other ma- 
chinery' after the Darlington Meet- 
ing. 
A formal motion to this effect was 
moved by the Hon. Cecil T. Parker, 
seconded by Sir Jacob Wilson, and 
adopted. 
Education. 
On the motion for the further con- 
sideration of the recommendations of 
the Committee with regard to the 
future granting of Education Life 
Memberships, 
Sir Nigel Kingscote said that as 
this was a matter of great importance, 
on which considerable difference of 
opinion existed, and as many members 
of Council, greatly interested in the 
matter, had been compelled to leave 
