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tion in any English place of education, except in the Royal 

 Agricultural College, Cirencester. 



Professor Wrightson has prepared an elaborate Report on the 

 Agricultural Departments of the Vienna Exhibition, which will 

 be published in the next number of the 'Journal;' and it is 

 proposed to publish his Report on the Agriculture of Austro- 

 Hungary in the succeeding number. 



The Council are glad that they are able to congratulate the 

 Members on the very general and decided decrease of Foot and 

 Mouth disease since the last General Meeting ; but the preva- 

 lence of Pleuro-pneumonia, notwithstanding the recent Order of 

 the Privy Council, compelling local authorities to slaughter 

 animals known to be affected with that disease, and to compen- 

 sate the owners, is still a matter of serious importance. 



Ninety-four Essays were sent in to compete for the Prize of 

 100/. offered by Loi'd Cathcart for the best Essay on the Potato- 

 disease and its prevention. The Committee appointed by the 

 Council to adjudicate this Prize, have reported that they cannot 

 recommend its being awarded to any one of the competitors. 

 They have, however, recommended that a sum of money be 

 granted for the purpose of inducing a competent mycologist to 

 undertake the investigation of the life-history of the potato-fungus 

 i^Pcronospora infestans) in the interval between the injury to the 

 potato-plant and the reappearance of the fungus in the following 

 year ; and that the Society should offer prizes for kinds of potatoes 

 that would resist disease during a series of experiments to be 

 ■continued for three successive years. The Council have taken 

 these recommendations into consideration, and have appointed a 

 special Committee to make further inquiry, and, if necessary, to 

 draw up a detailed scheme of the manner in which these recom- 

 mendations might be usefully carried out. 



By order of the Council, 



H. M. Jenkins, 



Secretary. 



