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Mr. R. A. H. Seymour, Mr. A. C. Skinner, Mr. William 0. 
Watson, Mr. Jonas Webb, and Col. R. Worsley Worswick. 
7. The Earl of Northbrook has been elected a Vice-President 
of the Society in the place of the late Sir Jacob Wilson. 
To fill vacancies which have occurred in the list of ordinary 
Members of Council, the following have been elected : — 
Mr. James Falconer, of Northbrook Farm, Micheldever, Hants ; 
Mr. Henry Dudding, of Riby Grove, Stallingborough, Lincoln- 
shire ; Mr. James W. Glover, of Warwick ; Sir Humphrey F. 
de Trafford, Bart., of Hill Crest, Market Harborough, Leicester- 
shire ; and Mr. Thomas A. Buttar, of Corston, Coupar Angus, 
Scotland. 
8. The Council, at their last Meeting, received with extreme 
regret from Sir Nigel Kingscote an intimation that, by his 
doctor’s orders, he would be compelled to forego active work on 
the Council of the Society, and must therefore resign the 
Trusteeship which he had held so long. On the motion of the 
President, seconded by H.R.H. Prince Christian, the follow- 
ing resolution was unanimously adopted by the Council : — 
“ The Council desire to record on their minutes the great regret 
with which they learn that Sir Nigel Kingscote is compelled by ill- 
health to retire from the deliberations of the Council. Since his 
election to the Council in 1863, he has served as President of the 
Society in 1877-1878, as Chairman of the Finance Committee from 1875, 
and Chairman of the House Committee from the same date. He 
frequently acted as Steward at the Annual Shows, and has been a 
Trustee of the Society from 1874. In these and other offices, and on 
all occasions, his energy, tact, and earnestness have been of inestimable 
value to the Society, while his courtesy and kindness have endeared 
him in a special degree to all his colleagues.” 
To fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sir Nigel 
Kingscote, the Council, at their Meeting held on Wednesday, 
November 7, unanimously elected Mr. F. S. W. Cornwallis 
a Trustee of the Society. 
9 . To meet a frequently expressed desire, steps were taken 
in the year 1904 to obtain such an alteration of the Society’s 
original Charter of March 26, 1840, as would enable the 
Society to re-arrange its system of electing the Council with a 
view to placing it on a more representative basis. To give 
effect to this object, His Majesty The King was graciously 
pleased to grant to the Society a Supplemental Charter, under 
which the ordinary Members of the Council, instead of being 
elected at General Meetings of the Society by the votes of those 
present are now “ elected by divisions of the Society comprising 
the Governors and Members resident in electoral districts.” 
10 . The new Bye-laws governing the election of the Council, 
the procedure at General Meetings, and other kindred matters, 
were sanctioned at an Extraordinary General Meeting held after 
the conclusion of the business of the Anniversary General 
