Report to the General Meetiny. 
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Ireland Clayfield, Mrs. Worslej, and other individuals, who 1 ad 
liberally offered to the Society the free occupation and disposal 
of their land. To Mr. Miles, as the Chairman, and to the Local 
Committee the Society were indebted for the excellent local 
arrangements of the period. The registration of lodgings by Mr. 
Webb Hall contributed essentially to the convenience of the 
members who attended the meeting; and the devotion of time 
and energies so cheerfully given by Mr. Marmont, the Secretary 
of the Local Committee, to the cause of the Society, and the 
numerous surveys and plans of proposed and adopted sites for the 
purpose of the meeting, including a detailed plan of the Victoria 
Grounds, drawn to a large scale, constituted an amount of in- 
valuable service, which the Council most thankfully acknowledge. 
In addition to the splendid exhibition of Devon cattle and other 
stock at the Meeting, and an exhibition of the greatest variety of 
new agricultural implements hitherto made on any similar occa- 
sion, of which an elaborate report has been drawn up by the 
judges, and printed in the Journal, the numerous assemblage of 
persons interested in agriculture from ev^ery part of the kingdom 
contributed to render the Meeting of a highly interesting cha- 
racter. The presence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam- 
bridge, as a governor, and of the Hon. Henry Everett, as an 
honorary member, and their lively participation in the proceed- 
ings of the Meeting, were circumstances which, in many national 
points of view, added a peculiar interest to the occasion. 
The Council have received from the deputation to the town of 
Derby a favourable report of the various sites inspected as suitable 
for the purposes of the show-yard, pavilion, official rooms, and 
lecture ; to which they were conducted by the mayor, Mr. Colvile 
the chairman, and the members of the local committee ; and they 
have announced in the prize sheet, which has been extensively 
advertised in the public papers of that neighbourhood, as well as 
in the London agricultural papers, that the principal day of the 
show is fixed for Thursday, the 13th of July ; and that all certifi- 
cates will be required to be lodged with the secretary by the 1st 
of June preceding. The Council beg to call the attention of the 
