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to deal with diseases of plants. It 
would be easier and simpler to deal 
with diseases of plants than with the 
diseases of animals, and, in the opinion 
of the Committee, it was desirable 
that the Board should obtain power 
to deal with such matters. It seemed 
to him that a small Bill giving the 
Board such power would receive no 
opposition from any Parties in Parlia- 
ment. 
Selection. 
Sir John Thorold (Chairman) re- 
ported that the Earl of Yarborough 
had expressed his willingness to be 
nominated as President for the year 
1907, and the Committee recom- 
mended that his lordship’s name would 
therefore be suggested to the General 
Meeting of Members, to be held on 
that day, for election as President of 
the Society, to hold office until the 
next ensuing Annual General Meeting. 
Sir John Thorold, in presenting 
this report, said that he thought he 
had better explain the reasons which 
had induced the Committee to recom- 
mend the selection of the Earl of 
Yarborough as President for the en- 
suing year. They were going into a 
very large county, and they hoped to 
get large numbers of people to their 
Show from all districts of that county, 
and to do that he thought they were 
justified in departing from the usual 
precedent of electing a Member of 
Council, in suggesting to them the 
election of the Earl of Yarborough. 
There was no man in his county who 
was more popular, and who would do 
so much to ensure the success of their 
Show in Lincolnshire. He therefore 
had much pleasure in proposing that 
the name of the Earl of Yarborough 
be suggested to the Annual General 
Meeting that day as President for the 
ensuing year. 
Thanks to President. 
The Earl of Onslow said he thought 
it would be the unanimous feeling 
of the Society that they should not 
separate without passing a hearty vote 
of thanks to their President. (Cheers.) 
Many distinguished men had filled 
the office as President of the Society, 
many of them had been liberal donors 
to its funds, but he did not think that 
any President had ever had to face a 
condition of affairs of the Society so 
difficult as that which had confronted 
Mr. Cornwallis, and he thought it 
must have been a matter of very 
great congratulation to him to see the 
Society during the past year emerge 
from that cloud of darkness which had 
overshadowed it in the few years pre- 
ceding his term of office. The results 
of the Show at Derby conclusively 
proved that the policy which the 
Society had adopted, and which had 
been so energetically furthered by 
Mr. Cornwallis, was the right policy, 
and the one likely to put the Society 
once again upon its legs. They had 
removed during that momentous year 
from the old premises of Harewood 
House into new premises, and, although 
they were not so palatial, they • were 
perfectly adapted to the requirements 
of the Society. He, therefore, moved a 
hearty vote of thanks to Mr Cornwallis 
for his conduct in the Chair, and he 
ventured to offer, on behalf of himself 
and of the Society, their cordial con- 
gratulation on the manner in which 
the year had turned out for the Society 
whilst Mr. Cornwallis had been the 
distinguished President. 
The Right Hon. Ailwyn E. Fel^ 
lowes had the very greatest pleasure 
in seconding the vote of thanks proposed 
by Lord Onslow. It was especially 
a pleasure to him because Mr Cornwallis 
was an old personal friend of his, and 
he thought that his work during the 
past year was beyond all praise. Many 
of them had been present at the F armers’ 
Club dinner the previous evening, and 
they must have recognised that it was 
not only the Society that owed him 
a deep debt of gratitude, but agricul- 
turists all over the kingdom were very 
grateful to him for his hard work. 
The motion, having been put, was 
carried by acclamation. 
Mr. Cornwallis said he felt that 
they had done him far too much honour 
for "any little work that he had been 
able to do during the past seventeen 
months. He had only been one oar 
in the boat, perhaps the stroke oar for 
the time being, but every member of 
that boat had rowed with equal vigour 
and determination to see that the race 
should be won, and he only hoped that 
the prophecy which Lord Onslow had 
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