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of the divisions of Lincolnshire (Mr. William Frankish) and 
Scotland (Sir John Gilmour, Bart.). Mr. Frankish had been 
a Member of Council for the exceptionally long period of 
thirty years, having been elected in 1875. He was an active 
Member of several of the most important Committees, the 
meetings of which. he had attended with unfailing regularity 
during the whole of the time he was a Member of the Council. 
As Chairman of the Implement Committee, as a Steward of 
Finance, and as Steward of other departments of the Show, 
Mr. Frankish’s services have been of the greatest value to the 
Society. Sir John Gilmour was elected a Member of Council 
in July, 1905, but in consequence of circumstances having 
arisen which prevented his attendance at the Monthly Meetings 
of the Council, he felt it necessary to tender his resignation. 
5. The death has also to be recorded of Professor Sir 
George Brown, the Society’s Senior Consulting Veterinary 
Surgeon, who had been an ordinary Member of the Society 
since the year 1862, and was elected an Honorary Member on 
April 1, 1878. Sir George Brown had for many years been 
closely identified with the Society as Veterinary Inspector at 
the Annual Shows, and in connection with the work of the 
Veterinary Committee. The Society is greatly indebted to 
him for his valuable papers on the diseases of the Animals 
of the Farm, several of which have been issued in pamphlet 
form. The Council also regret to have to record the death 
of Mr. A. C. Cope, who had been a professional Member of 
the Veterinary Committee since 1901, in which year he was also 
elected an Honorary Member. 
6. Amongst other Governors and Members, whose loss by 
death during the present year the Society has to deplore, are : 
The Duke of Rutland, K.G., the Earl of II Chester, Viscount 
Hampden, Lord Clinton, Lord Glanusk, Lord Templemore, the 
Right Hon. A. F. Jeffreys, M.P., Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart., M.P., 
Sir Thomas Brocklebank, Bart., Sir R. D. FitzHerbert, Bart., 
Sir B. Henniker, Bart., Sir W. T. Makins, Bart., Sir Pryse Pryse, 
Bart., Sir C. H. Rouse-Boughton, Bart., Sir Sidney Waterlow, 
Bart., K.C.V.O., Sir Henry Wiggin, Bart., Sir John Dunne, 
K.C.B., Sir William Pink, Sir Richard Tangye, Dr. W. Fream 
(Editor of the Society’s Journal from 1890 to 1900, and 
author of the Society’s Text Book, “ Elements of Agricul- 
ture ”), Mr. A. Dudley Clarke, Mr. Thomas Arkell (a Member 
since 1813), Mr. Edmund Backhouse (a Member since 1846), 
Mr. George Bagnall, Mr. John Barron, Major Best, Mr. Charles 
Burrell (a Member since 1848), Mr. Henry Denis de Vitre, 
Mr. A. F. Milton Druce, Mr. Henry D. Marshall (a Member of 
the Council from 1897 to 1905), Lt.-Col. G. Herbert Morrell, the 
Rev. S. H. Powell (a Member since 1842), Mr. F. Punchard, 
