Report to the General Meeting, 
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four Stewards of the Show-yard in the departments of Stock and 
of Implements respectively, instead of three as heretofore. 
The district assigned for the Country Meeting in 1874 com- 
prises the counties of Bedford, Cambridge, Essex, Hertford, 
Huntingdon, Norfolk, and Suffolk. Invitations were received 
from the authorities of Bedford, Cambridge, and Norwich, and 
the sites and other accommodation offered were inspected by a 
Committee of the Council specially appointed for the purpose. 
After duly considering the report of this Committee, the Council 
have decided that the Country Meeting for 1874 shall be held 
at Bedford. The Council have also to announce that the 
Country Meeting for 1875 will be held in the district com- 
prising the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, and 
Wilts. 
The Council have deputed Professor Wrightson, of the Royal 
Agricultural College, Cirencester, to proceed to Vienna, and 
prepare a report for publication in the Society's Journal on the 
agricultural department of the Vienna Universal Exhibition, and 
on some of the most remarkable features of the farmins: of the 
Austro-Hungarian Empire. 
The recent appointment of a Select Committee of the House 
of Commons to enquire into the working of the Contagious Dis- 
eases (Animals) Act has been a matter of congratulation to the 
Council as well as to the agricultural public generally, and the 
Secretary of the Society has been authorised to attend on behalf 
of the Society, and give evidence before that Committee, 
especially with reference to the investigation into the Trade in 
Animals which he conducted last autumn, and an account of 
which has been published ,in the last number of the Journal. 
The Educational Examinations were held at the Society's 
Rooms, on Tuesday, April 22nd, and four following days. Of 
the twelve candidates who entered, nine presented themselves 
for examination, all of them having been students at the Royal 
Agricultural College, Cirencester. Messrs. Leyson, Kennedy? 
and North were the three successful candidates, and each ob- 
tained a first-clais certificate, consequently becoming a life- 
member of the Society. In addition, Mr. Leyson gained a prize 
of 25/., Mr. Kennedy one of lOZ., and Mr. North one of hi. 
By order of the Council, 
H. M. Jenkins, 
Secretary. 
