2l6 TlMEHRI. 
Mr. W. Walker, thanking the Society for the honour 
done him by again electing him Resident Director in 
London. 
The meeting then terminated. 
Meeting held on igth April. — Mr. P. H. Nind, M.A., 
President, in the chair. 
There were 29 members present. 
Elections. — Members : R. C. Mollon ; J. B. Woolford ; 
David Smith. 
Associates : T. Bourne ; E. G. Massiah ; 
J. Dalzell. 
The President before proceeding to the usual business 
intimated that he had a resolution to propose to which 
he did not think the meeting would object, although it 
was out of order. Since the last meeting of the Society 
the community had suffered the loss of a distinguished 
man, one who had been several times President of the 
Society, and who never spared himself in anything 
that he undertook for the benefit of the Society. He 
alluded to the late Mr. William Russell of Leonora, and 
he thought it would be a meet and proper thing, that the 
meeting should record its deep regret at his death, 
and its full appreciation of his services to the Society 
and to Agriculture in general. Up to a few years since, 
the name of Mr. Russell was interwoven with the acts 
and interests of the Society. By precept, by example, 
by the reading of useful papers, and the donation of 
prizes to stimulate thought, he had made his influence 
felt, and there was nothing that came before the Society 
that he did not push forward. William Russell was a 
