Rt>port to the General Meeting. 
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the Gold Medal and Fifty Pounds Prize offered by the Mansion 
House Committee for the best Waggon for conveying perish- 
able goods — such as Meat, Poultry, Fish, &c., by railway, at a 
low temperature, a journey of .)0() miles, the waggons to retain 
their contents at a temperature not exceeding 45° Fahr., for six 
days. 
The Exhibition of Live Stock will be on a scale of equal 
magnitude with that of Implements in both the Foreign and 
English Sections. The Council have taken the utmost precau- 
tions to prevent any importation of disease with Foreign Cattle, 
which will be placed in a portion of the Exhibition quite separate 
from the English Cattle Department. Under special Orders 
issued by the Privy Council, suitable premises have been en- 
gaged as Quarantine Stations, and arrangements will be made 
for the inspection of all animals entered for exhibition previous 
to shipment and after landing, as well as on their arrival at the 
Exhibition after having undergone the period of Quarantine 
required by the Privy Council. 
The Council have much pleasure in calling attention to the 
support which has been given to the London Meeting by the 
several Agricultural Stud and Herd Book Societies and similar 
Associations, most of which have offered Champion or Special 
Prizes for animals of the Breeds in which they are respectively 
interested. The co-operation of such Institutions with the 
Royal Agricultural Society must, in the opinion of the Council, 
have a great influence in promoting the objects which are com- 
mon to both. 
The district assigned for the Country Meeting of 1880 com- 
prises the counties of Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, 
and Westmoreland ; and the Council have decided to accept the 
very cordial invitation which they received from the Mavor and 
Corporation of Carlisle, to hold the Country Meeting of next vear 
in that city. 
The Council have selected for the Country Meeting of 1881 
the district comprising the counties of Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, 
Northampton, Nottingham, and Rutland. 
As reported at the last Half-yearly Meeting, the Council have 
provided a Laboratory for the Consulting Chemist on the 
Society's premises, and have entered into a new arrangement 
with Dr. ^ oelcker, whereby the cost of analyses to jNlembers, 
