Monthly Council , December 10 , 1913 . 
XXXIX 
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1913. 
At a Monthly Council held at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, N., the 
Earl of Northbrook (President) in the Chair : — ■ 
Present : — Trustees . — Lord Moreton, Sir John H. Thorold, Bart. 
Vice-Presidents — Mr. C. R. W. Adeane, Mr. Percy Crutch ley, the Right 
Hon. Sir A. E. Fellowes, K.C.V.O., Sir Gilbert Greenall, Bart., C.Y.O., the Hon. 
C. T. Parker, the Earl of Yarborough. 
Other Members of the Council — Mr. D. T. Alexander, Mr. T. L. Aveling, 
Capt. Clive Behrens, Mr. E. W. Betts, Mr. H. Dent Brocklehurst, Mr. Davis 
Brown, Mr. T. A. Buttar, Mr. Richardson Carr, Mr. W. W. Chapman, the Hon. 
J. E. Cross, Mr. Arthur E. Evans, Mr. John Evens, Mr. J. Falconer, Mr. W. T. 
Game, Mr. Joseph Harris, Mr. W. Harrison, Lord Hastings, Mr. R. W. Hobbs, 
Mr. W. J. Hosken, Mr. W. F. Ingram, Mr. Dunbar Kelly, Mr. J. L. Luddington, 
Mr. Alfred Mansell, Mr. Ernest Mathews, Mr. W. A. May, Mr. G. Norris 
Midwood, Mr. T. H. Miller, Mr. W. Nocton, Mr. Henry Overman, Mr. C. M. S. 
Pilkington, Mr. H. F. Plumptre, Mr. J. E. Rawlence, Mr. F. Reynard, Mr. 
Fred Smith, Mr. C. W. Tindall, Mr. A. P. Turner, Mr. E. Y. Y. Wheeler, Mr. 
C. W. Wilson, and Mr. L. C. Wrigley. 
The following members of the Shrewsbury Local Committee were also 
present : — The Mayor of Shrewsbury, Mr. B. Blower, Mr. H. C. Clarke, Col. 
A. H. 0. LLoyd, M.Y.O., Mr. Beville Stanier, M.P., and Mr. E. Clothier (Local 
Secretary). 
The Bristol Local Committee were also represented by Sir Frank Wills, Mr. 
Sidney Humphries and Mr. Eldred G. F. Walker. 
The minutes of the last meeting of the Council, held on Wednesday, 
November 5, 1913, were taken as read and approved. 
Fifty-one duly nominated candidates were admitted into the Society as 
Members. . 
The President said it would be remembered that last year it was 
suggested that it would be a considerable convenience to Members of Council if 
they could hold their meeting at the Royal Agricultural Hall on the day of the 
annual general meeting ; and he was sure they would desire to thank the 
Royal Agricultural Hall Company and the Smithfield Club for their courtesy in 
allowing the meeting to be held in that room. He had received a letter in the 
following terms from Lord Rothschild : — 
“I very much regret having been unavoidably prevented by stress of work from 
writing to you before to express my best thanks for the honour conferred on me 
by the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society in naming me a Vice-President. 
I hope that you will believe that I greatly appreciate the privilege which 
associates me with a Society which promotes the welfare and extends the work of 
agriculture in which I take so warm an interest.” 
The Report of the Finance Committee was received and adopted, together 
with the Accounts of the Bristol Show, as to which an explanation was made 
to the Council by Mr. Adeane, Chairman of the Committee, Mr. May moved 
that a sum of one hundred guineas be voted by the Society to the Lawes and 
Gilbert Centenary Celebrations Fund. Mr. G. Norris Midwood having 
seconded the motion, Mr. Turner moved as an amendment that the matter be 
deferred. He did not see Sir Bowen Bowen-Jones present, but at the meeting 
of the Woburn Committee on the previous day they found themselves in a 
great deal of difficulty, and probably the Society would have to find a 
considerable sum of money to help them out of these difficulties. He thought, 
therefore, that it would be better to defer the matter until next February when 
a report would be received from the Woburn Committee, who had arranged a 
meeting in January to consider the whole question. Until that report was 
presented he thought the Council should defer the matter of a contribution to 
the Lawes and Gilbert Centenary Fund. Lord Hastings seconded the 
amendment, which, with the consent of Mr. May, was put to the meeting and 
carried. 
