iv Report to the General Mectinr/, 



arrangement shall have been made. The Council, in order to 

 diminish the amount of the mechanical details connected v,ith 

 their labours, have placed at their disposal a grant not to exceed 

 300/. annually, for the purpose of engaging such literary aid as 

 they may find requisite for the more convenient editorship of the 

 Journal. 



The excellent paper on Horse-Shoeing by Mr. Miles, of 

 Di:3ifield, near Exeter, published in the last part of the Journal, 

 has been reprinted in a cheap form for extensive distribution, and 

 already upwards of a thousand copies have been sold. 



The Governors of the Royal Veterinary College have pre- 

 sented their annual report of the progress made at that institution 

 in the application of the veterinary art, and the treatment of 

 the diseases of cattle, sheep, and pigs. They state that the 

 number of pupils qualified to act as practitioners in carrying 

 out these objects of the Society continues to increase ; but they 

 regret that the members of the Society do not avail themselves 

 more extensively of their privilege of sending diseased animals, 

 in a live or dead state, to the College, thus furnishing means 

 for the acquisition of a larger amount of practical experience 

 by the Professor of Cattle Pathology and his pupils. 



The Council have appointed Professor Voelcker, of the Royal 

 Agricultural College at Cirencester, to be the Consulting-Chemist 

 of the Society ; and he has already delivered before the members 

 his inaugural lecture on Agricultural Chemistry in its Relation 

 to the Cultivation of Root-crops. They have also made arrange- 

 ments with Professor Henfrey, of King's College, for the 

 delivery of a lecture on Vegetable Physiology, on Wednesday 

 next, the 26th of May. This lecture, as in the case of Professor 

 Voelcker's, will be taken down in its full extent by a short-hand 

 writer, and immediately made public. The Council hope that 

 this early publication of the lectures, by at once placing before 

 the agricultural community any facts of an important practical 

 character, will be found to meet the wishes of the members. 



The Chester Meeting promises, from its variety and extent, 

 to be of an interesting character. The Council have made 

 special arrangements for the trial of steam-cultivators, by which 

 their relative merits will be tested during the whole of the week 



