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Report to the General Meeting. 
not surpass, the unexampled Show held last year at Birmingham. 
The Council have ahead}' reported the exceptionally large 
additions which the Local Committee have made to the enhanced 
scale of prizes offered by the Society ; and they have now only to 
add, that every requirement of the Council has been met by the 
Local Committee in the most ready and liberal manner, and every 
endeavour has been made to insure the success of the Meeting. 
The district assigned for the Country Meeting of 1878 com- 
prises South Wales and the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, 
Monmouth, and Worcester. The Council have put in force the 
new plan of themselves selecting the town at which the Country 
Meeting will be held^provided that the authorities are willing 
to comply with the Society's requirements. The result of this 
first experiment of selecting the town without competition has 
been highly satisfactory, and the authorities of Bristol, which 
city has not been visited by the Society for thirty-five years, have 
undertaken to give the Council the accommodation required for 
the Meeting of 1878. 
The Council have revised the grouping of counties into dis- 
tricts for the holding of the Country Meetings in rotation, and 
have adopted the following scheme, to take effect after next 
year : — 
1879. 
A. Norfolk. 
Suffolk. 
Cambridgeshire. 
Huntingdonshire. 
Bedfordshire. 
Buckinghamshire 
Oxfordshire. 
Hertfordshire. 
Middlesex. 
Essex. 
1880. 
B. Northumberland. 
Cumberland. 
Durham. 
Westmoreland. 
The Council have appointed a Committee to ascertain what 
sites may be available and suitable for the Society's Show in 
1879, in the Metropolitan area, within District A. 
The Council have watched with the greatest anxiety and 
alarm the progress of the outbreaks of Cattle-plague in London 
1881. 
C. Derbyshire. 
Leicestershire. 
Lincolnshire. 
Northamptonshire. 
Nottinghamshire. 
Rutland. 
1882. 
D. Cornwall. 
Devonshire. 
Dorsetshire. 
Somersetshire. 
Wiltshire. 
Hampshire. 
Berkshire. 
Surrey. 
Sussex. 
Kent. 
■ 1883. 
E. Yorkshire. 
1884. 
F. Staffordshire. 
Shropshire. 
Warwickshire. 
Worcestershire. 
Herefordshire. 
Gloucestershire, 
South Wales. 
1885. 
Gr. Cheshire. 
Lancashire. 
North Wales. 
