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petition aud trial at the country meetings of the Society 

 complete and in good working order. 



Colonel Challoner also read to the Council a special 

 report of an alleged false entry, or otherwise an infringe- 

 ment of patent-right, in reference to one of the miscel- 

 laneous machines to which a silver medal had been 

 awarded by the j udges at Chester. The Committee hav- 

 ing examined, witnessed, and perused a lengthened cor- 

 respondence on this contested subject, recommended that 

 the medal should be farther withheld, until, by the pro- 

 vision of the 38th Regulation of the Chester Prize-sheet, 

 "a reasonable period shall have been granted, to allow 

 the trial of the rights of the parties at law ; and if no 

 steps at law are taken, in the next term, the award shall 

 be absolute." 



Implement Prizes for 1859.— Colonel Challoner 

 further reported for the Implement Committee the fol- 

 lowing schedule of classes of prizes proposed for the 

 Warwick Meeting : 



Class of ploughs £40 



Class of harrows 20 



Class of cultivators . , . . . . . 20 



Class of clod-crushers ., .. ,. ..10 



Class of rollers .. .. .. ., ..10 



Class of tile and brick-machines .. .. 20 



Class of draining machines and implements .. 20 



On the motion of Mr. Thompson, seconded by Mr. 

 Torr, the Council resolved that a Special Prize of .£50 

 should be offered at the Warwick Meeting " for the 

 best application of steam-power to the cultivation of the 

 soil." 



Warwick Meeting. — Lord Berners, Chairman of 

 the General Warwick Committee, reported the follow- 

 ing recommendations — 1. That the Warwick Meeting 

 should be held next year in the week commencing Mon- 

 day, the 11th of July; and 2. That the Local Prizes 

 placed at the disposal of the Council by the Local Com- 

 mittee, and to be awarded under the general regulations 

 of the Society, should be accepted. These recom- 

 mendations were adopted. 



Live-Stock Prizes. — Mr. Milward reported from 

 the Live-Stock Prizes Committee, the schedule of 

 prizes in that department, which was adopted. 



Refreshment Steward.— On the motion of Mr. 

 Brandreth Gibbs, seconded by Lord Berners, the fol- 

 lowing resolution was carried unanimously : — 



" That, in order to secure the Refreshments supplied for 

 the PubUc in the Show Yard being properly conducted, 

 there be in future a Steward of Yard Refreshments." 



South- African Agriculture. — The Hon. and 

 Rev. Samuel Best, of Abbot's Ann, near Andover, 

 having represented to the Council how great it would 

 prove to the agricultural community at the Cape of 

 Good Hope if a grant of the Society's Journal were 

 made to the Agricultural Library established at 

 Graham's Town, and how strong a mark of sympathy 

 it would be regarded by the settlers of that colony, it 

 was moved by Mr. Wren Hoskyns, seconded by Mr. 

 Torr, and carried unanimously, that a complete set of 

 the Journal should be placed at Mr. Best's disposal for 

 hat purpose. 



Cattle Disease in Portugal. — The Earl of 

 Malmesbury transmitted a despatch from H.B. M.'s 

 Consul-General at Lisbon, reporting a violent outbreak 

 of the " foot-and-mouth disorder" among the citlle of 

 that kingdom. The Council directed that Professor 

 Simonds, as the Veterinary Inspector of the Society, 

 should be requested to make a report to them on this 

 subject. 



Audit of Accounts. — The Half-yearly Audit of 

 Accounts was held on Friday, the 3rd of December : 

 present, Mr. Raymond Barker and Colonel Challoner, 

 on the part of the Finance Committee, and Mr. Wil- 

 liam Astbury and Mr. Joseph Druce, auditors on the 

 part of the Society. The accounts were examined, 

 audited, and certified as correct. 



The Council stands adjourned to its Weekly Meet- 

 ing on Wednesday, the 8th of December (at which all 

 Members of the Society have the privilege of being 

 present). 



The Annual Meeting of the Members of this Society 

 took place at the Society's House, in Hanover-square, on Fri- 

 day last, under the presidency of Lord Berners. Amongst 

 the gentlemen present were Lord Feversham, Mr. Shney, 

 M.P., Mr. Mark Philips, Mr. S. Druce, Mr. Druce, jun., Mr. 

 J. Kinder, Mr. D. Martin, Mr. W. F. Hobbs, Mr. Astbury, 

 Mr. S. Sidney, M. Trehonnais, Mr. H. Corbet, Mr. C. Sewell 

 Read, M. A. Paqueree, Professor Voelcker, Mr. T. Pain, Mr. 

 H. J. Hare, Mr. W. Torr, Mr. T. Duckbam, Colonel Chal- 

 loner, Mr. Pope, Mr. Crofts, Mr. H. J. Keys, and Mr. J. B. 

 Caldwell. 



At the request of the President, the Secretary, Mr. Hud- 

 son., read the Report of the Council as follows : 



REPORT. 



The Society consists at the present time of — 



79 Life Governor?, 

 134 Annual Governors, 

 916 Life Memhers, 

 4076 Annual Members, and 



18 Honorary Members, 



making a total of 5223 members, or an mcrease of 77 names 

 Oil the list since the last half-yearly meeting. The Council 

 have filled up the vacancy in their body, occasioned by the 

 decease of Mr. Paiae, of Farnham, by the election of Mr. 

 Thomas, of Lidlington. 



The funded property of the Society in the name of the 

 trustees has been raised by further investment to the amount 

 of £10,000 stock in the New Three-per-cents. 



Mr. Djke Acland and Mr. Wr;-a Hoskyns having found 

 that their own more immediately personal engagements would 

 not allow them conveniently to act longer as joint-editors of 

 the Journal, Mr. Thompson, their remaining colleague, has 

 undertaken the sole editorship, on the condition that the sum 

 of £300 be placed annually at his disposal for the purpose of 

 procuring such subsidiary aid connected with the details of the 

 work as he may find desirable. The Council have expressed 

 unanimously to Mr. Acland and Mr. Hoskyns their sense of 

 the high value they have attached to the services rendered by 

 them in their co-operation with Mr. Thompson, during the 

 period of their voluntary engasrement ; and they have grate- 

 fully accepted the otTer of Mr. Thompson to c ntinne liis 

 valuable services as the sole editor of the Journal. 



The Council have adopted the following schedule of Prizes 

 for Essays and Reports, to be sent to the Secretary by the Ist 

 of March next, namely — 



