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accounts now outstanding shows that the Meeting has resulted in 
an excess of expenditure over direct receipts of about 4,900?. 
9. That the Windsor Meeting was not likely to result in an 
absolute profit to the Society was recognised by the Council from the 
first ; and the dimensions which the Show assumed when the entries 
were found to be so unprecedentedly large, necessarily involved the 
Society in expenditure which it was impossible that the entry fees 
and the payments for the admission of non-members should recoup. 
The Show being considerably more than twice as large as usual, all 
the attendant expenses for shedding, fodder, printing, J udges' fees, 
administrative staff', wages, police, and the like, were necessarily in- 
creased in proportion, whilst, on the other hand, not much beyond 
the average attendance of paying visitors could be looked for. The 
prizes offered were, moreover, much more valuable and numerous 
than customary. 
10. The Council do not doubt, however, that the general body of 
Members will agree with them in thinking that the Society's funds 
have been well spent in bringing together, for the fitting celebration 
of its Jubilee, an assemblage of British live-stock, implements, and 
produce, of unparalleled magnitude and importance. The i-ecent 
large accession of new Members will enable the Society to bear the 
loss on the Windsor Show without undue strain upon its resources ; 
and there can be no doubt that the Show did much to stimulate the 
interest of agriculturists generally in the operations of the Society. 
11. Honoured by the pati'onage and presence on no less than 
four occasions of Her Majesty the Queen as President, and also of 
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the other members of 
the Royal family, and favoured by brilliant weather, the Meeting 
was, indeed, a great and conspicuous success from first to last. Her 
Majesty the Queen's approval of the efforts of the Society to make 
its fiftieth country meeting worthy of the occasion, is testified by 
her gracious bestowal of the dignity of a Knighthood upon the 
Honorary Director, Sir Jacob Wilson, and by the following letter, 
written in Her Majesty's own hand, immediately after the close of the 
Meeting : — 
Windsor Castle : July 2, 1889. 
It gave me very great pleasure to visit the Show of the Agricultural 
Society, of which I aui this year the President, and I can assure you that I 
was extremely gratified with this magnificent Exhibition. 
I must thank the Council for the care and attention they have devoted 
to this work, which has been so successful, and I am especiallv anxious to 
convey my acknowledgments to Sir Jacob Wilson and Mr. Ernest Clarke 
for their exertions in organising this Show. 
(Signed) Victoria RJ. 
To the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
12. At the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of Governors and Members, 
held in the Show-yard on Tuesday, June 25, H.R.H. the Prince of 
Wales, Acting-President, in the Chair the following resolution, 
