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In recognition of his services to agriculture, the Council, at 
their meeting in May last, elected as an Honorary Member the 
Hon. James Wilson, who, for a period of sixteen years was 
Minister of Agriculture at Washington, U.S.A. Advantage was 
taken by the President of the presence of Mr. Wilson at Bristol 
to present his Diploma of Honorary Membership to him personally 
at the General Meeting held on the Showground. 
Since the last Annual Meeting, Mr. John Evens, of Burton, 
I incoln, has been elected as a Member of Council for the Division 
of Lincolnshire, in the room of the late Mr. Henry Dudding. A 
vacancy in the list of Vice-Presidents, created by the death of Sir 
Richard Cooper, has been filled by the election of Lord Rothschild. 
Following the regular scheme of rotation, the Members of 
Council representing the electoral districts of Group “B” 
retire at the Annual Meeting in December next. The usual 
steps have been taken for the election or re-election of represen- 
tatives for the several divisions concerned. In the electoral 
district of Hampshire — owing principally to the efforts of the 
Earl of Northbrook during his year of Presidency — the number 
of Governors and Members on the 1st August last had increased 
to 321, so that that Division is now entitled, under By-law 83, to 
elect another representative in addition to Mr. James Falconer. 
In accordance with the By-laws, the balance-sheet has to be 
presented for consideration at the Annual General Meeting. 
The Council therefore beg to submit the balance-sheet for the 
year 1912, with the Statement of Ordinary Income and Expen- 
diture. These accounts were published in Volume 73 of the 
Journal issued to Members early this year, having been duly 
examined and certified as correct by the Auditors appointed by 
the Members, and by the professional Accountants employed by 
the Society. 
On the motion of Sir Ailwyn Fellowes, seconded by Mr. 
Mansell, the Council at their meeting in February, passed a 
Resolution in the following terms : — 
That the President of the Board of Agriculture be asked to 
approach the various Colonial and Foreign Governments with a view 
to a modification of the existing import regulations so as to allow 
cattle, sheep, and pigs to be exported from Great Britain, provided 
they have come from a clean zone, and not from within a radius 
of thirty miles of any place where foot-and-mouth disease has 
existed for two months. 
Subsequently, in the following month, a deputation consisting 
of representatives of the Royal Agricultural Society, the National 
Cattle Breeders’ Association, and the National Sheep Breeders’ 
Association, waited upon the President of the Board of 
Agriculture at the House of Commons, with reference to the 
regulations affecting the importation of cattle, sheep, and 
pigs from Great Britain to the Colonies and foreign countries. 
The deputation were received in a very sympathetic manner by 
Mr. Runciman, who, they realised, was fully cognisant of the 
importance of the subject, and that both he and the Board of 
Agriculture were doing everything they could to meet the wishes 
of the stockowners of this country. 
