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practical farming. Professor Way and Professor Simonds have 

 each expressed their willingness to take such part in these pro- 

 ceedings as the Council may from time to time think desirable, 

 and will make arrangements accordingly. 



On a former occasion the Council reported to the members 

 the offer of a site in Hyde Park for the Society's agricultural 

 show of breeding stock : the conditions for the occupation of that 

 site^ however, which were subsequently submitted to the Council 

 by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, were such as the 

 Council, acting on the part of the Society, could not accept. 

 The first minister of the Crown then expressed his desire to 

 promote the objects of the Society by the offer of a site to which, 

 from its locality, no such conditions as those necessarily required 

 in the case of Hyde Park would apply. Accordingly her 

 Majesty's consent on his Lordship's representation was at once 

 giv^en for the Society to select a site in such one of the Royal 

 parks of Hampton Court, Bushy, or Kew, as might be found on 

 inspection most suitable for the purposes of the Society. The 

 Council, in pursuance of this offer, decided to select a site in 

 Bushy Park, and were placed by the Government in com.mu- 

 nication with the Commissioners of Woods and Forests and the 

 Master of the Horse, when the authorities of Windsor informed 

 the Council of the gracious permission of her Majesty, and that 

 of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, to place the Home Park 

 of that royal demesne at the disposal of the Society, as a site for 

 the purposes of that country meeting, should the Council con- 

 sider it preferable to the one already selected in Bushy Park. 

 The Council, on the report of the same Committee of Inspection 

 that visited Bushy Park, decided that the country meeting of the 

 present year should be held in the Home Park at Windsor, 

 agreeably with the permission thus so graciously conceded to the 

 Society: a permission which the members of the Society will not 

 fail to regard as not only most gratifying in itself, but as enhanced 

 in its value by the prompt and condescending manner in which 

 it has been communicated. 



The attractiveness of the Home Park as a site for the meetinar. 



