xl Monthly Council , 
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establishment of a National Council of 
Agricultural Research, upon which it is 
proposed that the Society should have 
two representatives, recommend the 
Council to give a general approval to 
the proposed scheme. They recognise 
the advantages which the formation of 
such an association would possess as 
helping to consolidate experimental 
research throughout the country, and 
as preventing unnecessary duplication. 
Thev feel, however, that the successful 
working of the scheme must depend 
very greatly upon the means available 
for carrying it on, and also upon the 
system of control which would be exer- 
cised, and on these two points they 
would wish to have fuller information. 
In view more particularly of the carry- 
ing on of the Woburn experiments, 
which have hitherto been maintained 
entirely by the liberality of the Duke of 
Bedford, the Committee feel themselves 
bound to ask the Board of Agriculture 
what assurances of support for the 
future conduct of the work as now 
organised would be forthcoming in the 
event of the Society joining the proposed 
Association. 
The Committee recommended that 
a reply in the terms of the above 
resolution be sent to the Board of 
Agriculture. 
Botanical and Zoological Committee. 
Mr. Wheeler (Chairman) reported 
that the Committee had further con- 
sidered the memorandum from the 
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries as 
to the proposed Council of Agricul- 
tural Research, and were generally in 
sympathy with the objects of the 
proposed Council, but in the absence 
of information as to the way in which 
November 7, 1906. 
the scheme was to be carried out in 
detail, they did not deem it desirable 
to abandon the work at present carried 
out by the Society’s scientific officers. 
Committee of Selection. 
Sir Nigel Kingscote reported 
the Committee’s recommendation of 
the appointment of a Sites Committee, 
to make the necessary arrangements 
for holding the Society’s Shows for 1908 
and 1909, and to consist of the follow- 
ing : — Sir John Thorold, Sir Gilbert 
Greenall, Sir Richard Cooper, Mr. 
Adeane, Mr. Greaves, Mr. Reynard, 
Mr. Harrison, and Mr. Richardson 
Carr, with power to add to their 
number. 
Disposal of Harewood House. 
On the motion of the President, 
seconded by Mr. Crutchley, it was 
resolved that the Society’s Seal be 
affixed to the Supplemental Trust 
Deed effectuating certain modifica- 
tions of the rights of the holders of 
Harewood House debenture stock 
against the Society and its property, 
and certain modifications of the Trust 
Deed, dated August 2, 1893, for 
securing the said stock, as proposed 
by the Society, recommended by the 
present Trustees of the Trust Deed, 
and assented to by the stockholders 
at the meeting of stockholders con- 
vened by the Society and held on 
July 20, 1906. 
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1906, 
HELD AT THE HOTEL RUSSELL, LONDON, W.C. 
MR. F. S. W. CORNWALLIS (PRESIDENT) IN THE CHAIR. 
Resignation of Sir Nigel Kingscote. 
The President said he very deeply 
regretted to have to inform the Coun- 
cil that a letter had been received 
from Sir Nigel Kingscote to the effect 
that, by his doctor’s orders, he had 
been compelled to resign active work 
on the Council of the Society, and 
had therefore resigned the Trusteeship 
which he had held so long. Sir Nigel 
was elected a Member of the Council 
so long ago as 1863, and the records 
bore ample testimony to the devoted 
services he had rendered their great 
Society. (Hear, hear.) Those who 
had had the honour and pleasure of 
working under and with Sir Nigel 
knew that the bare records did not 
tell of a tenth of the work he had 
* always been doing on behalf of the 
Society. He had filled every office in 
the Society — Trustee, President, Chair- 
man of the Finance and House Com- 
mittees, had been a member of many 
others — and he had been Steward of 
nearly all the Departments at the 
Annual Shows — in fact, he was always 
working for the welfare of the Society. 
