xliv Annual General Meeting , December 10, 1913. 
research in agriculture, and the referee to whom these essays were submitted 
regretted that he did not find himself in a position to recommend the award of 
the medal to either of the authors of the two papers. He might say that the 
regulations governing the award of the Research Medal next year were being 
reconsidered, and would, he hoped, be settled by the Council in February. 
Adoption of Report. 
The President said the Report had been circulated through the post to 
each Member of the Society, and the meeting would doubtless be willing that 
it should be taken as read. He would therefore call on Mr. Quested to move 
its adoption. 
Mr. J. Egerton Quested (Cheriton, Kent) regretted that the presentation 
of the Report had not been put into better hands than his, but said he would 
do his best in asking the meeting to adopt it. He fully endorsed the remarks 
that had fallen from the President with regard to the membership, and he was 
sure that everyone in the room would appreciate those remarks and try -his 
utmost so that at the next Annual General Meeting they would be in a much 
better position with regard to the number of Members. With regard to the 
paragraph in the Report dealing with foot-and-mouth disease, he was sure that 
the Members would appreciate what had been done, and he was obliged to the 
Council for moving in that direction. At the same time they all felt much 
aggrieved that no good results had emanated from the Deputation to the 
President of the Board of Agriculture. Since then there had been an outbreak 
of foot-and-mouth disease, and they knew that they were still debarred from 
sending their cattle, sheep, and pigs to the Argentine for six months. He 
hoped the Council would take notice of this, and would not allow the matter 
to lie dormant, but would use every endeavour to get the resolution, which he 
understood had been moved and carried by the Council, put into operation. 
He would also like to say a word relating to animal diseases, referring 
more particularly to sheep scab. He believed that up to the present there had 
been something like 141 cases of sheep scab outbreaks during 1913, and he 
thought the time had come when the Royal Council should put their finger on 
the weak spot of the adminstration of that Order, and try their utmost to 
stamp sheep scab out entirely from this country. He thought they would 
agree with him that if a large continent like Australia, and New Zealand, 
could boast of having an entirely clean bill of health with regard to that 
complaint, it was a matter of reflection on the English Board of Agriculture 
that our small island had to admit that there had been 141 cases this year. 
He had much pleasure in moving the adoption of the report. 
Mr. John McLaren (Leeds) had much pleasure in seconding the adoption 
of the Report, which had been so ably moved by Mr. Quested. He thought 
they would agree that it was a very satisfactory Report. They had a very 
good membership, over ten thousand. The profits from the Bristol Show were 
altogether satisfactory, and the financial position was, he believed, better than 
it had been since the foundation of the Society. All the departments of work 
seemed to be “going strong,” and he only regretted, with other Members, that 
the offer of awards for research work had not produced a better result. At 
the same time, he trusted that the Council would not lose sight of that most 
important subject. At the present time he thought that research was probably 
one of the most important matters the Council had to consider, and no 
doubt the elimination of disease would be largely promoted by considerable 
research. He thought that the greatest encouragement would be well 
bestowed by the Society upon research work. It had also been a great satis- 
faction to him in reading the Report to see how generously the invitations 
were coming forward from large centres of population to hold the Show in 
their districts. In the history of the Society, he did not think the invitations 
had been settled so far ahead as was the case at the present time. He thought 
that showed that the work of the Society was being recognised, and that the 
public were willing and anxious to do all they could to help forward the work 
