( 857 = 551 ) 
CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I. — Objects, Constitution, and Management. 
"When founded and incorporated by Royal Charter — -Exclusion of Politics — 
Necessity of this Provision — Objects of the Society — Practice with Science 
— Constitution — Election and Powers of President and Council — Present 
Number of Governors and Members — Finance — Staff — Standing Com- 
mittees — President — Functions of Committees .. Pages 593-600 
CHAPTER 11.— Practice. 
Annual Exhibition — Honorary Officers — Development of Show — Results from 
1839-1877 — Exhibition of Implements — Subordinate Position in 1839 — 
Competition for Prizes — Its Advantages — Classification of Implements for 
Trial — Existing System — Steam Cultivation — Its Origin in 1854 — Its Posi- 
tion in 1866 — Resum^ — -Exhibitions of Live Stock — Confined to Breeding 
Stock- — Increase in the Number of Breeds — Shropshire Sheep — Present 
Policy commenced at the Battersea Meeting in 1862 — Horses — Farm Prizes 
— Originated at Oxford in 1870 — Subdivision of Classes in 1877 — Competi- 
tion not always keen — Conditions of Competition — Instructions to Judges — - 
Reports of Judges — -General Results .. .. .. Pages 600-616 
CHAPTER m.— Science. 
Chemistry — ilembers' Privileges of Analysis— Reports on Sales of inferior 
and adulterated Manures and Fecding-stufls — Advice to Members — Experi- 
ments and Investigations — Natural History — Members' Botanical and 
Zoological Privileges — Veteriuary Department — Members' Privileges — Im- 
portance of the Veteriuary Department — Investigations into Diseases of 
Animals of the Farm .. .. .. .. .. Pages 617-622 
CHAPTER lY.-~ The Propaganda of Agriculture. 
The ' Journal '^ — Its History — Its Usefulness — Agricultural Education — Senior 
Examination — Junior Examination — Examination of Veteriuary Surgeons 
— Education of the Landowner — and of the Labourer — Retrospect 
Pages 623-627 
