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the prizes oftered in connexion with the last Cambridge Local 

 Examination are detailed at full length in the last number of the 

 * Journal ; ' and the Committee are following out similar plans to 

 those therein detailed with regard to the ensuing Oxford Local 

 Examinations. The Council have also authorised the Education 

 Committee to offer prizes in connexion Avith the Cambridge Local 

 Examinations for 1866. 



The Country Meeting at Bury St, Edmunds having been post- 

 poned to 1867, in consequence of the prevalence of the Cattle 

 Plague, a meeting will be held in the neighbourhood of London, 

 merely pro fo7'nia, in accordance with the provisions of the Royal 

 Charter, and will be duly advertised. 



Papers have been read at the weekly meetings of the Society 

 by the Right Honourable Earl Cathcart and by Professor Simonds 

 on the Cattle Plague, and by Dr. Voelcker on Agricultural Expe- 

 riments in the Field. 



The Council have been favoured with various communications 

 from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and 

 these have from time to time been published in the agricultural 

 papers reporting the Proceedings of the Council. 



By Order of the Council, 



H. Hall Dare, 



Secretary. 



