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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL TO THE 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF GOVERNORS 
AND MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY, 
Held at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, N., 
On WEDNESDAY , December 10 , 1913 , at 12.15 p.m. 
The Earl of Northbrook ( President ) in the Chair. 
The Council have to report that the list of Governors and 
Members has undergone the following changes during the year 
which has elapsed since the Annual General Meeting on 
December 11th, 1912 : 13 new Governors (including 4 transferred 
from the List of Members under By-law 7), and 694 new Members 
have joined the Society, 6 Members have been re-instated under 
By-law 14, and 1 “ Research ” Life Member has been elected by 
the Council; whilst the deaths of 3 Life Governors, 7 Governors, 
2 Honorary Members, 94 Life Members, and 132 Annual Members 
have been reported. A total of 39 Members have been struck 
off the books under By-law 12, owing to absence of addresses, 
1 Governor and 80 Members under By-law 13, for arrears of 
subscription; and 225 Annual Members have resigned. 
It is with regret that the Council have to record that since 
the beginning of the year the losses by death sustained by the 
Society have included one Vice-President (Sir Richard Cooper, 
Bart.), one Member of Council (Mr. Henry Herbert Smith), and 
two ex-members of the Society’s executive body (Mr. Joseph 
Martin and Lord Arthur Cecil). 
The message announcing the death of Sir Richard Cooper on 
the 30th July was received at Bedford Square at the conclusion 
of the ordinary business of the Council meeting held that morning, 
and, in reporting the sad event to his colleagues, the President 
said the news had come upon him with terrible suddenness, tor, 
although he had heard that Sir Richard was unwell, he had no 
idea that his condition was so grave. Sir Richard, who joined 
the Society in 1888, was elected to the Council m 1905 as the 
representative of the Division of Staffordshire, and was appointed 
a Vice-President in July, 1910. Besides being a regular atten- 
dant at the Council meetings, he served on several of the principal 
committees, in the deliberations of which he took the keenest 
interest, and was a Steward of Finance at the Annual Show. 
In these, and also in many other directions, he rendered valuable 
assistance to the Society. Sir Richard will also be remembered 
as a large breeder of pedigree stock, animals from his herds 
and flocks being exhibited regularly, and with much success, 
both at home and abroad. 
Mr Henry Herbert Smith, of Bowood, Caine, who died sud- 
denly on the 19th October, had, been a member of the Society 
since 1874, and from 1905 until his death he represented the 
Division of Wiltshire on the Council. From 1900 to 1903 Mr 
Smith was Gilbey Lecturer on the history and economics ol 
Agriculture at Cambridge University. 
