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thorough test of the advance of this most important branch of 

 Agricultural Machinery. 



The General Meeting of the Society, held in the show -yard, 

 conveyed to the Mayor and Corporation of Newcastle, and to the 

 Local Committee who had so zealously co-operated with the 

 Council on the occasion, their cordial thanks for the kind atten- 

 tion they had paid to the wishes of the Society, and the admirable 

 manner in which they had made every arrangement required for 

 promoting the success of the meeting. The Society are indebted 

 to some railway companies for the arrangements they have made 

 at their annual show, but regret to say that in some instances 

 facilities have not been afforded to Exhibitors for the conveyance 

 of Stock at a reasonable rate. 



The Council have decided that the Plymouth Meeting shall 

 be held in the week commencing Monday, the 17th of July, and 

 the Prize-Sheets will shortly be ready for distribution. Land for 

 the trial of drills, manure-distributors, mowing, haymaking, and 

 reaping machines, and horse-rakes, has been already placed 

 under the necessary cultivation,' and prizes amounting to 440/., 

 will be offered among these classes of Implements, and 2815/. for 

 Stock. 



The Council have from time to time been favoured with 

 various communications from Earl Russell, Her Majesty's Secre- 

 tary of State for Foreign Affairs, the substance of which has 

 been made public in the published proceedings of the Meetings 

 at which they were read. 



Professor Simonds has delivered a Lecture before the Members 

 of the Society on Small-Pox in Sheep, which will appear in the 

 Journal of the Society. 



The Governors of the Royal Veterinary College have presented 

 their annual report, by which it appears that more animals have 

 been admitted into the Hospital of the College for treatment ; 

 also that there have been more consultations — and that other 

 arrangements have ^ been made tending to the further develop- 

 ment of the Veterinary art in respect to the Pathology of Cattle, 

 Sheep, and Pigs. 



By Order of the Council, 



H. Hall Dare, 



Secretary. 



