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Report to the General Meeting. 
certified by the Auditors and Accountants of the Society, and 
have been published in the last number of the ' Journal,' together 
with the statement of receipts and expenditure connected with 
the Bristol Meeting. The funded property of the Society has 
since been reduced by the sum of 208 IZ. 4s. hd. New Three per 
Cents., which has been sold out to meet some of the preliminary 
expenses of the London Exhibition ; and it now stands at 
24,430?. 7s. New Three per Cents. The balance of the current 
account in the hands of the Soctety's bankers, on the 1st instant, 
was 12221. 17s. Sd. 
The London International Exhibition will commence on 
June 30th, and will continue for the six following days (Sunday 
excepted). It will be the largest and most varied Agricultural 
Show hitherto held, as the Council have taken the opportunity 
to include in the Exhibition some novel features of great interest. 
Among these, it may be stated that the idea of a Comparative 
Loan Collection of Ancient and Modern Farm Implements has 
been well supported ; and the thanks of the Council and of the 
Members are due alike to the possessors of the old and the 
makers of the new forms of implements for their ready response 
to the appeal of the Council to aid them in this matter. It is 
intended to publish a special descriptive Catalogue of this Loan 
Collection, which will doubtless be a valuable aid to the study of 
the history of Farming Machinery. 
The processes of Foreign Dairy Manufacture have recently 
attracted so much attention, in consequence of the large impor- 
tations of Foreign Cheese and Butter during the last few years, 
that the Council have endeavoured to secure the representation 
of some Foreign as well as English dairy processes in actual 
operation ; and they are glad to state that the German, Scandi- 
navian, and French, in addition to some of the English, pro- 
cesses will be represented in an International Dairy 'in the 
forthcoming Exhibition. 
The Implement Industry of the country will be represented 
by an unusually large number of Exhibitors, while special 
novelties will be contributed by French, Belgian, and German 
makers. National collections of the agricultural produce of 
several countries will also form a special feature of interest and 
instruction. 
Three Railway Waggons have been entered to compete lor 
