lx Annual General Meeting of Governors and Members , 
proceedings at annual General flDeetlng of 
Governors and flDembers, 
HELD AT THE SOCIETY’S HOUSE, 13 HANOYEE SQUAEE, LONDON, W. 
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1905. 
SIR JOHN H. THOROLD, BART. (PRESIDENT), IN THE CHAIR. 
The First Annual General Meeting 
of Governors and Members under the 
Supplemental Charter granted to the 
Society on April 1, 1905, was held 
at 13 Hanover Square, London, W., 
on Tuesday, August 1, 1905, in accor- 
dance with the new bye-laws enacted 
by the Council on May 31, 1905. 
Present : 
Governors . — The Earl of Fever- 
sham, the Earl of Jersey, G.C.B., 
Lord Middleton, Lord Moreton, Sir 
Walter Gilbey, Bart., Sir Gilbert 
Greenall, Bart., Col. Sir Nigel Kings- 
cote, G.C.Y.O., K.C.B., Mr. J. Bowen- 
Jones, Mr. Victor C. W. Cavendish, 
M.P., Mr. F. S. W. Cornwallis, Mr. 
Percy Crutchley, Mr. James Hornsby, 
Mr. J. G. Mair-Rumley, the Rev. D. 
B. Montefiore, Mr. G. H. Sanday, Mr. 
E. W. Stanyforth, and Mr. Charles 
Whitehead. 
Members . — Sir John Gilmour, Bart., 
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart., M.P., Sir 
Henry M. Vavasour, Bart., Messrs. 
C. R. W. Adeane, R. C. Assheton, 
T. L. Aveling, W. J. Bennison, H. W. 
B. Berwick, G. A. Blyth, Richardson 
Carr, John G. Clarke, F. Roper Cooke, 
R. P. Cooper, W. Cooper, A. C. Cope, 
J. P. Cross, Lt.-Col. J. F. Curtis- 
Hayward, Messrs. W. Scarth Dixon, 
George Drewry, E. G. Dulcken, G. H. 
Evans, R. Forrest, W. Frankish, 
Walpole L. Greenwell, H. J. Green- 
wood, Ernest Hamlyn, Laurence 
Hardy, M.P., Joseph Harris, W. 
Harrison, Percival Harter, J. H. Hine, 
R. W. Hobbs, John Hughes, R. H. P. 
Hutchinson, Surg.-Lt.-Col. J. Ince, 
M.D., Messrs. W. F. Ingram, T. M. 
Jarmain, J. S. Ledbrook, F. A. Caven- 
dish Macdonnell, Ernest Mathews, 
W. A. May, F. E. Metcalfe, C. 
Middleton, T. S. Minton, J. E.Moore- 
Gwyn, John Neilson, E. Packard, 
James B. Paynter, Claude M. S. 
Pilkington, L. Ralph Price, G. G. Rea, 
John Rowell, E. W. Sankey, E. W. 
Shackle, G. F. Sheppard, F. W. Sil- 
vester, H. M. Simmons, Thomas Stir- 
ton, R. Stratton, Herbert Tallent, 
George Taylor, J. Herbert Taylor, 
John Thornton, E. Trimen, A. P. 
Turner, J. G. Unite, Jonas M. Webb, 
E. V. V. Wheeler, T. P. Wilkes, C. W. 
Wilson, W. F. Wilson, &c. 
Election of President for 1905-1906. 
The Chairman, in opening the 
proceedings, said that they were assem- 
bled that day for the Annual General 
Meeting under exceptional circum- 
stances, which would not recur. They 
had already, at a previous meeting 
held under the Society’s original 
Charter barely two months ago, de- 
spatched their ordinary business for 
the year by receiving and discussing 
the customary Report from the Coun- 
cil. The Chair was only temporarily 
taken by himself, as, according to the 
Charter, the retiring President vacated 
his position after the Show, and could 
not be re-elected, and the new Presi- 
dent could not be elected until the 
Meeting held that day. The reason, 
however, of summoning them there 
that day was, in the words of the 
Report presented at the meeting held 
on May 22, “in order that the new 
Council may get to work as early as 
possible.” As they could not get to 
work until after the Annual General 
Meeting had been held, there had 
been no option but to convene the 
meeting this year (and exceptionally 
for this year only) at a time which he 
feared was not very convenient for 
many of them.i 
It had been hoped, as they knew, 
that they might have had the advantage 
