The International Agricultural Congress at Vienna. exevii 
solved : " That the following noblemen 
and gentlemen be appointed a Com- 
mittee of Inspection to examine and 
report upon the Sites and other 
accommodation offered by the various 
towns from which invitations have 
been, or may be, received : — The 
President, the Senior Stewards of 
Stock, Implements, and Finance, the 
Honorary Director, Mr. Ashworth, and 
the Secretary. 
International Agricultural Congress 
at Vienna. 
The President observed that, as 
the Council were aware, the Society 
was officially represented at the Inter- 
national Agricultural Congress, held 
at Vienna last September, by their 
Secretary and Editor. The Society 
had, he thought, every reason for 
gratification at its determination to 
send a delegate to this Congress, 
which was the largest that had ever 
been held, the number of members 
being, indeed, double those of the 
similar Congress held in Paris in- 
1878, when the Society was repre- 
sented by the President of the year 
— their friend Sir Nigel Kingscote — 
and many other influential members 
of the Council, including, at the 
opening sitting, His Koyal Highness 
the Prince of Wales. Vienna, how- 
ever, was not so accessible as Paris, 
and the Congress was held at a later 
period of the year, so that those 
members of the Council who were 
contemplating accompanying the Se- 
cretary were unavoidably prevented 
from carrying out their intention. 
The Society had always endea- 
voured, and with success, to cultivate 
international relations with other 
organisations for the advancement of 
agriculture. Their Secretary had re- 
ported that he was everywhere re- 
ceived most kindly and hospitably as 
the representative of their Society 
and of English agriculture ; and he 
had brought back with him, not only 
the most agreeable recollections of 
his visit, but a great mass of new in- 
formation about agricultural adminis- 
tration and practice in the Austro- 
Hungarian Monarchy, which he would 
summarise for the Journal, and to 
which he (Lord Eavens worth) was 
sure they would all look forward with 
great interest. Lord Salisbury was 
good enough to write, both officially 
and privately, to their Ambassador 
at Vienna, Sir Augustus Paget, re- 
questing him to give Mr. Clarke the 
necessary official introductions to the 
authorities in Austria and in Hungary. 
In view of the valuable information 
which their representative, and thus 
the Society, obtained from the gentle- 
men to whom he received introduc- 
tions through their Ambassador, he 
was sure it would be the wish of the 
Council that their thanks should be 
officially recorded, not only to Sir 
Augustus Paget himself, but to the 
British Consul-General at Buda-Pesth 
(Sir Arthur Nicolson) ; to the Aus- 
trian Minister of Agriculture (Count 
Julius de Falkenhayn) ; to Chevalier 
de Blumfeld, of the Austrian Agri- 
cultural Department; to Baron Fiath, 
of the Hungarian Agricultural De- 
partment ; to Count Nicholas Ester- 
hazy; and to Baron de Hohenbruck 
and Chevalier Max de Proskowetz, the 
President and Secretary of the Com- 
mittee of Organisation of the Vienna 
Congress. 
These votes of thanks were passed 
unanimously, and the President un- 
dertook to communicate them offi- 
cially to the gentlemen named. 
Miscellaneous. 
Letters were read from the Board 
of Agriculture, stat ing that the Board 
much appreciated the steps taken by 
the Society with the view of assisting 
the Board in carrying out the Pleuro- 
pneumonia Act of 1890, and from the 
Devon County Agricultural Associa- 
tion, thanking the Council for the 
facilities afforded to the Association 
at the Plymouth Meeting. 
Date of next Meeting. 
Various other letters and docu- 
ments having been laid upon the 
table, the Council adjourned until 
Wednesday, December 10, at noon. 
