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of this Journal, in his exhaustive Report of the Agricultural 
Implements at that Exhibition. A general view of the Liverpool 
Meeting, as compared with previous Shows, has also been given 
in the Report of the Senior Steward. 
Despite these circumstances, the magnificent exhibition of 
6900 implements and machines affords " room and verge 
enough " for the Reporter's observation and comment. There 
were, in fact, a large number of exhibits which were noticed by 
the Judges, and which were ineligible for a medal according to 
the Society's regulations on the score of not being entirely new, 
of having been exhibited at a previous show, or of not being 
agricultural. 
Of such of these as they deemed most entitled to notice they 
supplied a list to the Reporter. 
There were also many inventions which, though not quite of 
importance enough to be distinguished by the special notice of 
the Judges under the conditions regulating the competition for 
medals, were excluded from a " commendation " by the 6th regu- 
lation, which specifies that " no commendation of miscellaneous 
articles shall be made by the Judges." 
The Judges of Self-binding Reapers were Mr. John Coleman, 
Riccall Hall, and Mr. Henry Cantrell, Baylis Court, Slough ; 
of Miscellaneous Articles, Mr. John Thompson, Badminton, 
Chippenham ; Mr. J. W. Kimber, Fyfield Wick, Abingdon ; 
and Mr. S. Rovvlandson, Newton Morrel, Darlington ; with 
Mr. W. Anderson, C.E. (of Messrs. Eastons and Anderson's, 
Erith Ironworks, Kent), as Consulting Engineer, and myself as 
Official Reporter. 
These gentlemen made their inspection of the whole of the 
exhibits in the Showyard, on Monday, 9th of July, and the three 
following days. 
The following regulations, under which the Judges made their 
awards, were laid down in the Prize Sheet : — 
Gold Medal. 
The Gold Medal of the Society will be awarded at Liverpool, or any future 
Meeting, for an efficient Sheaf-binding Machine, cither attached to the Reaper 
or otherwise. 
Silver Medals. 
1. There are ten Silver Medals, the award of which the Judges appointed 
by the Council have the power of recommending in cases of sufficient merit 
in new implements exhibited at the Liverpool Meeting. 
2. 1'hesc medals cannot in any cane be awarded to anj' implement, unless 
the principle on which the im]ilcmetit is constructed be entirely new, and the 
implement has never before been exhibited at any of the Society's Shows. 
3. These Medals are specially intended as a mark of approval of any new 
principles of construction \\ hich the Judges may consider as essential improve- 
ments; subject always to the restriction contained in Rule 2. 
