Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Bill 
XXXlll 
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1906. 
MR. F. S. W. CORNWALLIS (PRESIDENT) IN THE CHAIR. 
House. 
On the motion of the President, 
the Council resolved themselves into 
Committee to consider the recommen- 
dation of the House Committee that 
the offer they had received for 
Harewood House be accepted by the 
Council. 
A lengthy discussion followed, in 
which several of the Members present 
took part, and eventually the report, 
with the omission of the reference to 
the offer for the House, was received 
and adopted. 
Chemical and Woburn Committee. 
Mr. Bowen - Jones ( Chairman) 
reported that the Committee bad 
considered the Fertilisers and Feeding 
Stuffs Bill of the Government, together 
with a memorandum thereon prepared 
by the Society’s Consulting Chemist. 
Since the issue of this memorandum 
certain amendments had been made 
in the Government Bill; and after full 
discussion the Committee had resolved 
that a letter in the following terms 
should be addressed to Sir Thomas 
Elliott, the Secretary of the Board 
of Agriculture and Fisheries : — 
The Council of the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England having taken into 
consideration the Fertilisers and Feed- 
ing Stuffs Bill as put forward by Sir E. 
Strachey and the Solicitor-General, and 
as subsequently proposed to be amended 
by Sir E. Strachey, desire to make repre- 
sentations on the following points : — 
1. Section 3, sub-section 2, line 11. — The 
insertion of the words “by the agri- 
cultural analyst,” after the words 
“samples for analysis,” would make 
it clear that the work was to be 
done by the person holding the 
official appointment under the Act, 
and not by some one else. 
2. Section 4, line 14. — Similarly it would 
be well here to insert after “ to have 
analysed,” the words “by the agri- 
cultural analyst.” 
3. Section 3, sub-section 3. — In this sub- 
section there is no provision for the 
forwarding of the invoice, or a copy 
of it, to the agricultural analyst, 
when the sample is submitted for 
analysis, but only in the case of 
a sample being submitted to the 
chief analyst. The Council think 
it only right that the analyst 
should be informed of the de- 
scription under which the goods 
were sold and the guarantees 
under which they were sold, so 
that he may be able to know what 
he is required to determine, and 
how to report as to whether the 
purchaser has been prejudiced or 
not. Such information as this 
ought to be supplied to the analyst 
when the sample is sent. 
4. Section 5, sub-section 2. — The Council 
think it very desirable that the 
expression “agricultural body or 
association ” shoul d be more clearly 
defined, and they would be glad to 
have an assurance from the Board 
of Agriculture that this clause is 
not intended to apply to bodies 
aided by payments from the rates, 
and with which the Royal Agri- 
cultural Society and other similar 
associations carrying out analyti- 
cal work could not compete on 
fair grounds. 
5. Section 6, line 20. — It appears to the 
Council desirable that provision be 
made for the tracing back of the 
offence to the original offender. 
The Committee had further recom- 
mended that the views of the Council, 
as expressed in the letter, should be 
represented to individual Members of 
the Standing Committee on Law. 
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1906. 
MR. F. S. W. CORNWALLIS (PRESIDENT) IN THE CHAIR. 
Death of Mr. A. C. Cope. 
The President announced that he 
had just heard of the death of Mr. 
A. C. Cope, and made a sympathetic 
reference to his services to the Society 
as a professional member of the Veterin- 
ary Committee. Mr. Cope had been 
an Honorary Member of the Society 
since 1901, 
The Society’s House. 
Sir Nigel Kingscote moved, 
Mr. Carr seconded, and it was 
resolved, that the Finance and House 
Committees jointly take the necessary 
steps for securing new premises for 
the housing of the Society when the 
negotiations for the disposal of Hare- 
wood House had been completed. 
