Ixiv Report to the Anniversary Meeting. 



Having ascertained from Mr. Manning, the contractor for the 

 Cambridge Works, that his present engagements would preclude 

 his undertaking the works this year at Liverpool, the Council 

 decided to appoint a Surveyor of Works, who should inspect the 

 progress of their erection, and Mr. Wild having been elected to 

 that office, he has proceeded to Liverpool for the purpose of mak- 

 ing arrangements with the contractors to be employed. 



The Council having decided that there should this year be two 

 days for the exhibition of the stock instead of one^ as formerly, 

 the exhibition of the implements will open on Wednesday the 

 21st of July, and that of the cattle on Thursday the 22nd, the 

 Show remaining open till 2 o'clock on the Friday ; and the Dinner 

 of the Society will take place on the Thursday. They have also 

 directed that catalogues containing a list of all the subjects of the 

 exhibition shall be prepared for sale before the time of the meet- 

 ing — that only the printed forms shall be allowed for the certifi- 

 cates of exhibitions — and that the awards for implements shall 

 be announced at the same time as those for cattle. They have 

 decided that the sale of Dinner Tickets shall only take place at 

 Liverpool, comm-cncing on Tuesday, and continuing open to the 

 Members in general on the two following days; each day, how- 

 ever_, a certain number of tickets being reserved for old Members, 

 namely, for such as were elected by the 24th of March last ; and 

 that after the first Wednesday in July no further election of 

 Members shall take place until after the Meeting. 



The Council having maturely considered all the comparative 

 advantages offered by various places for the next year's Meeting, 

 have decided in selecting the City of Bristol as the most suitable 

 locality for the Annual Country Meeting of 1842; and agreeably 

 with the new by-law, regulating the announcement of the list of 

 prizes for the Country Meetings, the Bristol Prize-Sheet has been 



