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of gratification that the President 
should have been chosen from amongst 
them. 
The resolution was then put to the 
meeting and carried unanimously. 
The Earl of Yarborough, in 
response, said that no words of his 
could adequately express his feelings 
on that occasion. To have the honour 
of occupying the position to which he 
had just been elected was one of which 
any man might be justly proud. He 
could assure them that he appreciated 
to the fullest extent the honour which 
they had done him, and he begged to 
acknowledge the more than kind terms 
in which the mover and seconder of 
the resolution had proposed it to the 
meeting. He might count them both 
as old personal friends, and there- 
fore they had been prompted rather 
by kindly feelings towards himself 
than by actual facts in what they had 
said. He knew that it had been the 
usual practice for the President to be 
selected from those serving on the 
Council, and he should be the last to 
believe that they had been prompted 
to depart from that practice by any 
personal virtues of his own ; but he 
thought they had been influenced, in 
view of the Royal Agricultural Society 
going to Lincoln next year, to select a 
President who had an interest in the 
county entertaining the Royal. He 
thought that it would be appreciated 
throughout Lincolnshire as a very great 
compliment. The Mayor of Lincoln 
and the Committee that were working 
with him would have very full support 
from the county, and he was sure that 
if any further incentive were required 
they had supplied it by the graceful 
compliment which had been paid to 
them by electing a Lincolnshire man 
as President next year. He thanked 
them sincerely for the honour which 
they had done him. 
Election of Trustees, Vice-Presidents, 
and Auditors. 
The Trustees and Vice-Presidents 
having been re-elected by show of 
hands, Mr. John Evens moved that the 
best thanks of the meeting be tendered 
to Mr. Jonas M. Webb, Mr. Hubert 
J. Greenwood, and Mr. Newell P. 
Squarey, for their services as Auditors 
during the past year, and that they be 
re-elected to hold office until the next 
ensuing Annual General Meeting. They 
had discharged their duties very satis- 
factorily, and the best proof that could 
be offered to them in that case was 
that they should be re-elected for the 
coming year. 
Mr. S. Copeland had great pleasure 
in seconding the motion. He was 
pleased to know that the Auditors’ 
duties would be more happy in the 
future than they had been in the past. 
The resolution was passed unani- 
mously. 
Elections to the Council. 
The President said that under 
Bye-law 82 the whole of the new 
Council elected last year retained office 
until that meeting, when the “ Member 
or Members elected by each of . the 
divisions in such one of the groups of 
Divisions A, B, and C respectively as 
shall be determined by the Council 
(by ballot or otherwise) shall retire.” 
A second group would retire at the 
Annual General Meeting in December, 
1907, and the remaining group at the 
Annual General Meeting in 1908. The 
Council had accordingly determined 
by ballot that the representatives of 
the various divisions should retire in 
the following order : — Group C at the 
present meeting ; group B at the Gene- 
ral Meeting in December, 1907 ; and 
Group A at the General Meeting in 
December, 1908. 
The necessary steps had been taken 
to fill the vacancies on the Council in 
the representation of the Districts in 
Group C, and he, as President, had to 
report formally to the Annual General 
Meeting the names and addresses of 
the Ordinary Members of Council who 
had been elected by the sixteen divi- 
sions of Group C, in order that the 
meeting might “ take cognisance ” of 
their election. 
These names and addresses were as 
follows : — 
Adams, George, Royal Prize Farm, 
Faringdon, Berkshire. 
Adeane, Charles R. W., Babraham Hall, 
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. 
Aveling, Thomas L., Boley Hill House, 
Rochester, Kent. 
Brocklehurst, Henry Dent, Sudeley 
Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. 
Carden, Richard George, Fishmoyne, 
Borrisoleigh, Tipperary, Ireland. 
Dudding, Henry, Riby Grove, Stalling- 
borough, Lincolnshire. 
