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HELD AT THE SOCIETY’S HOUSE, 13 HANOVER SQUARE. 
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1894, 
SIR JOHN H. THOROLD, BART. (PRESIDENT), IN THE CHAIR. 
Present: — 
Members nf the Council. — Earl 
Cathcart, Viscount Emlyn, Lord 
Brougham and Vaux, the Right Hon. 
Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart, M.P., 
Sir Jacob Wilson, Messrs. J. Hunger- 
ford Arkwright, Alfred Ashworth, 
H. Chandos-Pole-Gell, Charles Clay, 
Lieut. -Col. J. F. Curtis-Hayward, 
Messrs. J. Marshall Dugdale, Wm. 
Frankish, Anthony Hamond, C. S. 
Mainwaring, P. Albert Muntz, M.P., 
G. H. Sanday, Martin J. Sutton, and 
Charles Whitehead. 
Governors . — Lord Tredegar, Mr. 
W. F. Holt Beever, Lieut.- Col. G. 
Herbert Morrell, and Mr. W. Barrow 
Simonds. 
Members . — The Hon. H. W. Fitz- 
william, Sir Richard H. Paget, Bart., 
M.P., Sir Henry Simpson, Messrs. 
R. C. Asshefon, Thomas C'arrick, 
Horace Cox, H. Denis de Vitr6, T. A. 
Dickson, William Fortune, George 
Gibbons, Douglas A. Gilchrist, Charles 
Hamilton, Wm. H. Harrison, M. 
Ifulton-Harrop, Surg.-Lieut.-Col. Ince, 
M.D., Messrs. C. D. Kemp-Welsh, 
Frederick King, William Langford, 
W. G. McLaughlin, Robert Milnes, 
jun., F. E. Muntz, Ralph Palmer, 
Edmond Riley, H. Le Roy-Lewis, S. 
Sandbach, Dr. Wm. Somerville, 
Messrs. J. P. Sowerby, Thomas Stirton, 
John Thornton, Jonas M. Webb, G. D. 
Yeoman, &c. 
Officers. — Mr. Ernest Clarke, Secre- 
tary ; Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker, Con- 
sulting Chemist ; Mr. Wilson Benni- 
son, Surveyor ; Professor Brown, C.B. 
The President, in opening the 
proceedings, said that he had great 
pleasure in congratulating them upon 
their first general meeting held in that 
beautiful house. He was sure that 
those members of the Society who had 
not before seen it would agree with 
the Council that they could not have 
a more suitable place in which to 
hold their meetings in the future, and 
he knew they would agree with him 
in cordially thanking those who had 
enabled them to obtain Hare wood 
House. They all knew that it was 
the efforts of the Duke of Westminster 
and Sir Walter Gilbey which were 
mainly instrumental in enabling them 
to acquire the house. He only hoped 
that those present would use their 
best endeavours to increase the 
number of members of the Society, 
because they could not conceal from 
themselves that their expenses in the 
future would be very much increased. 
Report of the Council. 
The Report of the Council for the 
past half-year was taken as read, the 
Secretary giving a brief synopsis of 
its contents (see page 739). 
Lord Tredegar, in moving the 
adoption of the report, said that the 
possession of those excellent rooms 
should greatly facilitate the various 
discussions carried on by the Council, 
and would therefore assist the great 
cause of agriculture in which they 
were all so anxiously interested. He 
referred with satisfaction to the com- 
prehensive list of prizes, including 
those offered by the Local Committee 
