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Report to the General Meeting. 
Suffolk ; and that resulting from the transfer of Sir M. W. 
Ridley to the list of Vice-Presidents by the election of 
Mr. Albert Pell, of Hazelbeach, Northampton. A further 
vacancy on the Council, owing to the resignation of Sir Hussey 
Vivian, Bart., has been filled by the election of Mr. J. E. 
Ransome, of Holme Wood, Ipswich ; and that caused by the 
election of Mr. Wakefield as a Vice-President is still under 
consideration. 
The auditors and accountants of the Society have examined 
and certified the half-yearly statement of accounts to the 30th 
June last, and it has been published in the 'Journal' for the 
information of the Members. The funded capital of the Society 
remains the same as at the last Annual Meeting in May,, 
namely, 31,895Z. 5s. Id., and the balance of the current account 
in the hands of the Society's bankers on the 1st instant was- 
urn. Is. M. 
The opening day of the Norwich Meeting was marred by 
inclement weather, which effectually prevented many visitors- 
from attending, and rendered the task of the Judges very 
uncomfortable. But this unfortunate commencement was more- 
than retrieved by the remarkable attendances on the two last- 
days of the Show. Their Royal Highnesses the President and' 
the Princess of Wales, with the Princesses, showed their active 
interest in Agriculture by inspecting, during their visits, all the 
departments of the Show. 
The hospitality of the County of Norfolk and the City of 
Norwich was worthily sustained by the Mayor and other 
residents of that City and neighbourhood. A pleasing feature 
of the Meeting was the official visit of a large number of 
Colonial and Indian representatives on the third day of the 
Show. 
As an Exhibition of Live-Stock, the Norwich Meeting was- 
far above the average, the total number of Entries having- 
exceeded those of any year since the Kilburn Meeting in 1879. 
The distinguishing features were, as might have been expected, 
the large and excellent displays of Suffolk Horses, Hackneys, 
Red Polled Cattle, and Southdown Sheep. 
The Council have decided to hold a Show of Thoroughbred 
Stallions at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on January 25th. Five. 
