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Monthly Council , August 1, 1905. 
words of the Report presented to 
the General Meeting last December, 
“to deliberate and decide as to the 
future of the Society’s Shows, and as 
to the character and scope of the 
Society’s other operations.” These 
were matters which would obviously 
demand their immediate and serious 
attention, though it would not he 
expected that they could come to any 
decision without careful deliberation, 
and doubtless prolonged discussion, jj « 
He wished to assure their new 
colleagues that he would endeavour to 
give every one the fullest freedom, 
consistent with the orderly conduct of 
their debates, for the expression of his 
personal views on the situation. The 
Finance Committee had prepared a 
special report for the information of 
the Council, with the particular object 
of putting each Member of the Council 
in possession of the fullest and latest 
information relative to the Society’s 
position. This report of the Finance 
Committee presented no recommen- 
dations, but was a mere statement of 
facts. It afforded, however, a con- 
venient peg on which to hang a general 
discussion and to obtain an exchange 
of views on the subject which was 
uppermost in all their minds— the 
future of the Shows and of the Society 
generally. He suggested, therefore, 
that they should pass the customary 
monthly report of the Finance Com- 
mittee as to receipts and payments, 
formally receive the special report, 
and then decide to consider the 
general questions arising out of it in 
Committee of the whole Council, so 
that they might have greater latitude 
of debate. He hoped that the discus- 
sion would be a full and frank one, 
and promised that any information 
desired by any Member of the Council 
would be supplied as far as possible. 
Report of Finance Committee. 
Sir Nigel Kingscote presented a 
special report, giving particulars of 
the Society’s obligations, and stating 
that, irrespective of the Guarantee 
Fund, the actual receipts for the Show 
of 1905 were 11,200?., while the 
expenses would be some 1 9,000?. or a 
deficit of 7,800?. The donations of 
6,300?. would reduce the actual loss, 
which would fall on the Society’s 
general funds from the holding of the 
Show of 1905, to about 1,500?. This 
report was received, and by general 
consent the discussion thereon was 
deferred until the other items on the 
agenda paper had been disposed of. 
Vacancies on the Council, 
The President reported that no 
representatives had been elected to 
serve upon the Council for the elec- 
toral districts of Cornwall, Dorset, 
Essex, and South Wales, and he sug- 
gested that the question of filling up 
these vacancies under Bye-law 90 
should be referred to the Committee 
of Selection. This course was, after 
a short discussion, agreed to. 
Miscellaneous. 
A letter was received from the Royal 
Veterinary College, stating that the 
Society’s medals for Cattle Pathology 
for 1905 had been gained by Mr. 
Leonard Danels, of 20 Westwell Road, 
Streatham Common, S.W. (silver 
medal), and Mr. William Henry 
Taylor, of Mount Pleasant, Sampford 
Peverell, near Tiverton (bronze medal). 
These medals were ordered to be issued 
accordingly. 
A letter from the Town Clerk of 
Blackpool, inquiring “if it would be 
convenient at any and what date for 
the Society to receive a deputation 
from the borough with a view to the 
Show of thedioyal Agricultural Society 
being held at Blackpool at a date to 
be arranged,” was postponed for future 
consideration. 
Authority was given for the Society’s 
Seal to be affixed to the Diplomas of 
Honorary Membership of H.I.H. Prince 
Arisugawa of Japan and the Hon. 
Whitelaw Reid, who were elected as 
Honorary Members of the Society at 
the Council meeting in the Showyard 
on June 29. 
The Position of the Society. 
The Council then resolved into 
Committee for the purpose of discuss- 
ing the general position of the Society. 
Mr. Bo wen- Jones said he had 
received a letter from Mr. Ryland, 
who, he was sorry to say, was too 
unwell to attend their meeting that 
day, putting forward certain sugges- 
tions. Mr. Ryland suggested that an 
entirely independent Committee of old 
