xxxviii Report to the General Meeting. 
with tlie Society's bankers, and the casli balance in their hands 
on the 1st instant was 4235/. 
His Highness the Pasha of Egypt has been unanimously 
elected an Honorary Member of the Society, in recognition of 
his generous aid to British Agriculture, and his interest in its 
progress. 
His Excellency M. Drouyn de L'Huys and M. Edouard Le- 
couteux, the first President and Secretary of the ' Societe des 
Agriculteurs de France,' have also been unanimously elected 
Honorary Members of the Society. 
The Society resolved last year to hold its Country Meeting 
for 1870 at some town in the division comprising Berkshire, 
Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, and 
Sussex. A memorial having been received from the Corporation 
of Oxford, and the arrangements made by the authorities appear- 
ing to meet the requirements of the Society, the Council have to 
announce that the Country Meeting for 1870 will be held at 
Oxford. 
After inviting nominations from Members of the Societ}', and 
after correspondence with the principal county Agricultural 
Societies, new lists of Judges of Stock and of Implements have 
been prepared. 
Memorials signed by several breeders of Oxfordshire, Shrop- 
shire, and Long-Woolled Sheep, requesting the Council to abolish 
the system of inspection, as well as all restrictions on the shearing 
of sheep, have been received. A full reply has been given to 
the statements in the memorials, and the Council have endea- 
voured to render inspection more thorough and efficient by 
appointing an additional inspector. 
The Country Meeting to be held at Manchester, under the 
Presidency of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, K.G., 
from the 19th to the 24th of July, promises to be unusually 
attractive. The Society's Show-yards for Implements and Live 
Stock will contain upwards of sixty acres. The entries for Imple- 
ments and Machinery, &c., which closed on the 1st instant, show 
that this department will be even more extensive than the large 
display of last year, and it may confidently be expected that the 
show of Live Stock will be on an equally large scale. A schedule 
of prizes to the amount of 4120Z. has been issued for Live Stock 
and Implements. 
