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moment suggest that our Annual Show or occasional trials be 
done away with, for I believe that as much good may be done 
in the future as has been done in the past ; but as other fields 
of usefulness are continually opening out to the Society, some 
alteration must be made in one way or another, and this appears 
to me to be the part where the pruning-knife may be most 
advantageously applied, and our Exhibition will still remain as 
useful as it is at the present time, if not more so. 
Of any individual part of the Exhibition there is no necessity 
for me to write, as that will be very ably done by Mr. Coleman. 
I will therefore conclude my Report by thanking my colleagues 
and all with whom I have been officially engaged for their 
kind and valuable assistance rendered to me during my four 
years of office. 
XXIX. — Report on the Exhibition of Implements; Award of 
Medals, §r., at the International Exhibition at Kilburn. By 
John Coleman, of Riccall Hall, York. 
Adversity is a good schoolmaster, and the bitter experiences 
of Kilburn will not be thrown away upon the executive of our 
great, and I am glad to say, rapidly increasing National Society. 
It is something amidst the disappointments and disasters attend- 
ing this noble effort to know that the member-roll has been 
increased by nearly a thousand ; a gain which in the long 
run will counterbalance, aye, and outweigh the present sacri- 
fice, undeniably heavy as it must be. The retiring Steward, 
Mr. G. H. Sanday, has given the readers of the ' Journal ' his 
valuable notes as to the causes of the unfortunate result of the 
International Meeting. It remains for me to state for myself 
and the Judges who worked under him, our unbounded admira- 
tion of the untiring energy and earnest zeal which has character- 
ised his tenure of office ; his invariable courtesy and good 
temper in the midst of complications and difficulties which 
might well have excused some irritation. His conduct ^s a 
Steward of Implements has fully justified his selection as 
a Member of the Council, and has endeared him to all with 
whom he has co-operated. In saying this much of the retiring 
Steward, I do not overlook our obligations to his colleagues, who 
one and all worked splendidly in the face of difficulties which 
at one time seemed overwhelming. It is the hour of trial that 
tests the quality and resources of men, and one of the compen- 
sating elements in the load of troubles at Kilburn, was the 
splendid way in which the officials, from the Steward of General 
