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the table, for the information of members, the usual 

 quarterly statements of income and expenditure, and of 

 assets and liabilities. 



Journal. — Mr. Thompson, Chairman of the Journal 

 Committee, presented the following report, which was 

 adopted : — 



1. Vol. xix., Part 2, of the Journal is now ready, and copies 



laid on the table. 



2. In the Miscellaneous Class (VIII.) of Essays, the prize is 



withheld by the Judges; but iu the Essay on Liquid 

 Manure Tanks and Under-E;ronnd Pipes for Irrigation 

 there are some inpenions suR!»cstion8, and the Com- 

 mittee recommend tliat the author be requested to allow 

 it to be printed in the Journal at the ordinary rate of 

 payment. 

 Agricultural Chemistry. — Mr. Wren Hoskyns, 

 Chairman of the Chemical Committee, reported to the 

 Council some suga;estions for alteration in the wording 

 of the notice for Members' privileges of chemical 

 analysis ; and detailed an interesting series of investi- 

 gations which Prof. Voelcker, the consulting-chemist 

 of the Society, was about to commence under the direc- 

 tion of the Committee. 



Waravick Meeting. — Lord Leigh, Vice-Chairman 

 of the General Warwick Committee, reported their re- 

 commendation of the plan of the Show-yard, submitted 

 to them by the Honorary Director of the Show and the 

 Society's Contractor of Works. His lordship also re- 

 ported the various steps taken by the Committee in 

 making preliminary arrangements for the meeting. An 

 offer made to the Council, by the Local Committee, to 

 defray the expenses connected with the exhibition of 

 Warwickshire cheese in the Show-yard, was referred to 

 the General Warwick Committee for their report at the 

 next Monthly Council. Mr. Wren Hoskyns conveyed 

 to the Council, on the part of the County Magistrates of 

 Warwickshire, an offer to place the Judges' House in 

 Warwick at the disposal of the Stewards of the Society, 

 during the period of the ensuing Warwick Meeting. 

 On the motion of Mr. Raymond Barker, seconded by 

 Mr. Hutton, the Council accepted this offer with their 

 best acknowledgments. 



Implement Judges. — On the motion of the Hon. 

 W. G. Cavendish, M. P., seconded by Colonel Challoner, 

 the following resolution was unanimously adopted : — 

 " That in future the Implement Committee shall be re- 

 quested to nominate the Judges not later than the first 

 Wednesday in June, in order that they may be able to 

 lay before the Council on the first Wednesday in July 

 the names of those Judges that are able and willing to 

 act." 



Veterinary Inspection. — On the motion of Mr. 

 Milward, the Council unanimously adopted the follow- 

 ing resolution : — " That an additional Assistant- 

 Veterinary-Inspector be appointed ; and that the Report 

 of the Veterinary Inspectors shall be furnished to the 

 Stewards before the Judges commence their work." — It 

 was then moved by Lord Feversham, seconded by Mr. 

 Jonas Webb, and carried unanimously, that Professor 

 Spooner, of the Royal Veterinary College, should be 

 requested to accept the appointment of one of the 

 Assistant-Veterinary-Inspectorsatthe country meetings 

 of the Society. 



Protest.— Mr. Milward, as one of the Stewards of 

 Cattle at the Chester Meeting, reported that the protest 

 lodged with the Stewards against the award of one of 

 the local prizes for horses had reciived their most 

 careful investigation : they considered the animal to be 

 fully qualified for the prize, and recommended that it 

 be no longer withheld, but now paid in due course to 

 the winner. The Council confirmed this decision, and 

 gave instructions accordingly. 



Member of Council. — Sir Archibald Macdonald, 

 I3art., addressed a letter to the Council, stating that 

 having served five years as a Steward, he considered 

 himself no longer as eligible for immediate active ser- 

 vice, and he thought it would be for the benefit of the 

 Society if his place in the Council were filled by one 

 both willing and able to act as Steward, and make him- 

 self generally useful. His farming operations, he added, 

 were not now of the same extent as when he first became 

 a member of the Council, and " as the governing body 

 of that important Society consisted of men eminent 

 either for their ability or their position, as owners and 

 occupiers of land, he had clearly no claim to that seat 

 in the Council, which he then begged leave to resign." 

 The Council having with great unwillingness accepted 

 Sir Archibald Macdonald's resignation, it was moved 

 by Mr. Henry Wilson, seconded by Colonel Challoner, 

 and carried unanimously, that the Secretary be in- 

 structed to write a suitable letter to Sir Archibald 

 Macdonald, expressing to him the great regret of the 

 Council that any circumstances should deprive them of 

 his valuable co-operation, and the high sense enter- 

 tained both by the Council and the Society of the im- 

 portant services he had rendered to agriculture. 



The Council having appointed the Standing Com- 

 mittees for the year, adjourned to their weekly meeting 

 on Wednesday, the 9th of February, 



Weekly Council, Feb. 9.— Present ; The Rev. L. 

 Vernon Harcourt, in the Chair ; Mr. Fisher Ilobbs, 

 Mr. A. Majendie, Professor Simonds, and Mr. Mait- 

 land Wilson. 



Captain Burgess, Secretary of the United Service In- 

 stitution, transmitted specimens of guano from Shark's 

 Bay, West Australia, and a portion of soil from the 

 same locality, sent to England by Captain Denham, 

 R.N., of H.M. surveying ship Herald. 



The Royal Agricultural Society of Belgium announced 

 a second trial of reapers, to be instituted in that king- 

 dom this year. 



The Smithfield Club presented a cask of wheat sent 

 to them by the Port Philip Farmers' Society, at Mel- 

 bourne ; samples of which, in bags, for trial, may be 

 had on applying at Messrs. Thomas Gibbs and Co., the 

 Society's seedsmen, by such of the members as may feel 

 disposed to test its merits by trial, and report the result 

 to the Council of the Society. 



Mr. S. Kitto, having returned from California with a 

 supply of wheat from that country, offered to place it at 

 the disposal of the Council under the condition that it 

 should have a " fair trial." 



Captain Childers favoured the Council with an offer 



