XXV 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND, 
abstracts from tbe proceebmgs of tbe Council. 
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1906. 
MR. F. S. W. CORNWALLIS (PRESIDENT) IN THE CHAIR. 
The late Mr. Howard P. Ryland. 
The President said that since their 
last meeting they had lost by death an 
active Member of the Council, Mr. 
Howard P. Ryland, the representative 
of Warwickshire who died on Decem- 
ber 28 last. Mr. Ryland was elected 
a Member of the Council in 1894, 
and since that date he had rendered 
valuable services to the Society as a 
Member of many of its committees, 
including the Chemical, Stock Prizes, 
Implement, and Showy ard Works 
Committees ; as Steward either of 
Implements or Live Stock, at many 
of the Society’s Shows ; and as Steward 
of Forage at Birmingham in 1898. 
His death would be greatly regretted 
by his colleagues on the Council. 
Resignation of Mr. William Frankish. 
The President said he regretted 
also to announce that he had received 
a letter from Mr. William Frankish 
resigning his seat as a Member of the 
Council. Mr. Frankish had occupied 
this position for the exceptionally 
long period of thirty years, he having 
joined the Council in 1875. He had 
been an active Member of some of 
the most important of the Society’s 
committees, including the Finance 
Committee, and throughout the whole 
of his long period of membership he 
had attended the meetings of those 
committees and of the Council with 
unfailing regularity. He had acted 
as Chairman of the Implement Com- 
mittee since the death of' the late 
Mr. Hemsley, in 1888, and in that 
capacity, as well as Steward of 
Finance and Steward of other depart- 
ments of the Shows, his services had 
been of the greatest value to the 
Society. They could only express 
their great regret that Mr. Frankish 
felt that the time had now come for 
him to relinquish active participation 
in the Society’s work. In accepting 
his resignation he was sure that it 
would be their wish that he should 
convey to Mr. Frankish an expression 
of their great regret at his retirement, 
with the assurance of their goodwill 
and grateful recollection of his long, 
untiring, and valuable services to the 
Society. (Hear, hear.) 
Finance Committee. 
Mr. Adeane (Chairman) reported 
that the Committee had considered 
the report for the year 1904-5 of the 
Directors of Park Royal, Limited, viz., 
Lord Middleton, Sir Walter Gilbey, 
Sir Nigel Kingscote, and Mr. Percy 
Crutchley, which was to be presented 
to the ordinary general meeting of 
the Company on January 10, 1906. 
The Report contained the following 
paragraph : — 
The Directors who would in the 
ordinary course retire at this meeting 
in accordance with the Articles of 
Association are Lord Middleton and 
Mr. Percy Crutchley. Having regard, 
however, to the decision of the Royal 
Agricultural Society (which is the 
registered holder of all hut seven of 
the 15,000 shares of the Company) to 
hold its Show of 1906 elsewhere than 
at Park Royal, and to put the Com- 
pany’s estate up for sale in the course 
of next summer, it does not appear to 
the present Directors of the Company 
that any useful purpose would he served 
by their continuing in office. They de- 
sire therefore to tender their resignations 
as Directors as soon as it may be con- 
venient to tbe Society to make other 
arrangements for the control of the 
Company’s affairs. 
