CXXIV 



English Agricultural Society. 



Committee have also completed their examination and settlement 

 of the whole of the accounts relative to the Oxford Meeting, a 

 balance-sheet of which is now laid on the table, and a copy di- 

 rected to be sent for the use of each member of the Committee 

 of Management. The Committee cannot report this termination 

 of their transactions with the City of Oxford without expressing, 

 in the strongest terms, their thanks to the members of the Uni- 

 versity and Corporation in general, for the interest they evinced 

 in their proceedings, and their support and promotion of the ob- 

 jects of the Society, and they would especially record their sense 

 of the favour shown them by the Vice- Chancellor, the Provost 

 and Fellows of Queen's College, the Professor of Geology, the 

 Mayor and civil authorities, and the co-operation of the Local 

 Committee on that occasion. 



The Society having been invited by the nobility and gentry of 

 Cambridge to hold their next meeting in that town, the Sub- 

 Committee appointed to take preliminary steps for the requisite 

 arrangements for the meeting in July next, having presented a 

 Report after a deputation to Cambridge, recommending Parker's 

 Piece as a suitable site for the meeting, the Committee of Man- 

 agement have resolved to erect on that space of ground a tempo- 

 rary building for the cattle-yard, and also a dinner-room capable 

 of accommodating at least two thousand persons.* 



The Committee have also passed the following resolutions, in 

 reference to the exhibition of stock : — 



1st. That no animal which won a first prize in any class at the 

 meeting at Oxford, shall be allowed to compete for a similar 

 premium at Cambridge. 



2nd. That any person who shall have been proved, to the satis- 



* The Master of Downing College having communicated to his Grace the 

 Duke of Richmond, in the most handsome and liberal manner, the wishes 

 of himself, and the Professors and Fellows of Downing College, that the 

 English Agricultural Society would accept the offer of the Quadrangle of 

 that College for the purpose of their great Dinner at the Cambridge 

 Meeting, the Committee of Management have rescinded their former Re- 

 solution, and have unanimously accepted this invitation. — The day of ihe 

 Meeting is fixed for Wednesday the 15th of July. 



