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Deputation to the Board of Agriculture , 
life. He thanked the Council for 
this mark of their good-will towards 
him, and he hoped that the many 
private friendships with which he had 
been honoured during the time that 
he had been privileged to be in 
official relations with Members of 
the Council would be continued in his 
retirement. The Council had honoured 
him with their confidence and support 
during the long years of strenuous 
work which lay behind him, and he 
had endeavoured to the utmost of his 
abilities to justify that confidence by 
devoting the best of his powers to the 
service of the Society, which he 
sincerely hoped might have before it 
a prosperous future worthy of its 
splendid traditions. 
On the motion of Sir John 
Thorold, Mr. George Lobb, Mr. A. 
Hiscock, jun., Mr. John Barker, and 
Mr. C. Coltman Rogers were formally 
elected Members of the Council under 
Bye-law 90. 
Royal Commission on Horse Breeding. 
On the motion of the Earl 
of Coventry, seconded by Lord 
Middleton, it was resolved unani- 
mously that Sir Walter Gilbey be 
nominated as the Society’s repre- 
sentative upon the Royal Commission 
on Horse Breeding, in the room of the 
late Sir Jacob Wilson. 
Appeal for Government Grant. 
The President said that, in view 
of the decision of the Council at their 
last meeting that a Deputation from 
the Society should wait upon the 
President of the Board of Agriculture 
to present an appeal to His Majesty’s 
Government for a grant in aid of the 
Education and Scientific Branches of 
the Society’s work, he had arranged 
with Mr. Fello wes that such Deputation 
should attend at the offices of the Board 
at 2 p.m. that afternoon. The wording 
of the appeal had been laid before the 
several Committees concerned, and, 
after revision, approved by them ; and 
the Members constituting the Deputa- 
tion had held a meeting, at which the 
terms of the appeal had been finally 
agreed to. Owing to the recent poli- 
tical changes, it would be impossible 
for Mr. Fellowes now to receive the 
Deputation himself, but it had been 
arranged that Sir Thomas Elliott, the 
permanent Secretary, should represent 
the Board on that occasion. 
Deputation to tbe Boarfc of Hgrtculture. 
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1905. 
A Deputation from the Royal Agri- 
cultural Society of England waited 
upon Sir Thomas H. Elliott, K.C.B., 
Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, 
on Wednesday, December 6, 1905, at 
2 p.m. 
>. The Deputation consisted of Mr. 
F. S. W. Cornwallis (President), the 
Earl of Northbrook (Chairman of the 
Veterinary Committee), Lord Moreton 
(Chairman of the Education Com- 
mittee), Mr. J. Bowen-Jones (Chair- 
man of the Chemical and Woburn 
Committee), Sir John Gilmour, Bart., 
Sir Ernest Clarke (Secretary), and the 
Very Rev. Dr. John Gillespie, LL.D., 
and Mr. Ernest H. Godfrey (Chairman 
and Secretary of the National Agricul- 
tural Examination Board). 
Mr. Cornwallis having introduced 
the Deputation, and apologised for the 
absence, through illness, of Mr. E. V. V. 
Wheeler (Chairman of the Botanical 
and Zoological Committee), made a 
statement as to the objects of the 
Deputation, and presented the follow- 
ing Appeal from the Society for a grant 
from His Majesty’s Government in aid 
of the Education and Scientific 
Branches of the Society’s work : — 
Appeal for Government Grant 
in aid of the Education and 
Scientific Branches of the 
Royal Agricultural Society 
of England. 
I.— National Objects of the Society. 
1. The Royal Agricultural Society of 
England was incorporated by Royal 
- Charter in 1840 as a Society for 
[■ the general advancement of English 
Agriculture and for the purpose of 
prosecuting certain National Objects 
defined in the Charter. 
