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Report to the General Meeting, 
moved by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, was carried by accla- 
mation, and is inserted in this Report for purposes of record : — 
The Royal Agricultural Society of England, iu General Meeting 
assembled, desires, with every feeling of loyal attachment, to express to Her 
Majesty the Queen its grateful sense of the honour and benefit conferred by 
Her Majesty's gracious condescension in the acceptance, during its Jubilee 
year, of the position of President of the Society. 
By this act Her Majesty has shown in the most direct manner the great 
interest which she feels in one of the most important industries in Her 
Majesty's dominions. This must be a great incentive to those engaged in 
agriculture to continue their efforts to meet the depression under which 
that industry has for so long been unhappily suffering. 
The Society, at the close of Her Majesty's year of office, desires once 
more to assure Her Majesty that there is no class of her subjects mora 
devotedly attached to Her Majesty than the agriculturists of England. 
At the same Meeting, special Gold Medals, which had been struck 
by order of the Council in commemoration of Her Majesty's year of 
presidency, were presented to the Prince of Wales by the Duke of 
Richmond in the name of the Society, for the acceptance of Her 
Majesty the Queen and of His Royal Highness. 
13. The enthusiasm with which the Members of the Society and 
the agriculturists of the country generally rallied to the celebration 
of the Society's Jubilee was highly gratifying. The Council were 
specially favoured by the presence, in response to their invitation, 
of Lord Polwarth (president), Sir James Gibson Craig, Bart., Mr. 
James MacQueen, and Mr. F. N. Menzies (secretary), representing 
the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland ; and of the 
Earl of Rosse (president), the Baron de Robeck, D.L., Mr. S. 
Ussher Roberts, C.B., and Mr. C. Uniacke Townshend (lion, secre- 
tary), representing the Royal Dublin Society. 
14. The Council have decided that the Plymouth Meeting shall 
commence on Monday, June 23, 1890, and close on the following 
Friday evening. The Implement Yard and the Working Dairy 
will be open to Members of the Society and the public on the 
previous Saturday, June 21. The last day for making entries in 
the Implement Department will be Tuesday, April 1 ; but post- 
entries, of Agricultural Implements only, will be received^ up to 
Saturday, April 5. For Stock, Poultry, and Produce, the entries 
will close on Thursday, May 1, with post-entries at double fees 
up to Monday, May 12.' 
15. The following Prizes for Implements and Dairy Appliances 
will be offered in connection with the Plymouth Meeting : — 
1. Light Portable Motors, steam or other, up to five brake- 
horse-power. 
(«) Motors using Solid Fuel (including Steam Engines 
and Hot-Air Engines) . £30 £20 
(b) Motors using Liquid or Gaseous Fuel . . . £30 £20 
1 For complete Prize Sheet, including Prize* subsequently offered, see pages 
xx to xxvi of Appendix. 
Class 
First 
Prize 
Second 
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