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Report to the General Meeting. 
sessor G. T. Brown, of the Veterinary Department of the Privy 
Council, and Dr. Burdon Sanderson, F.R.S., Professor-Super- 
intendent of the Brown Institution, Honorary Members of the 
Society in recognition of their eminent services to Veterinary 
Science. 
The accounts for the year 1877 have been examined and 
certified by the Auditors and Accountants of the Society, and 
have been published in the last number of the ' Journal,' 
together with the statement of receipts and expenditure con- 
nected with the Liverpool Meeting. The funded property of 
the Society remains the same as at the last General Meeting, 
namely, 26,511Z. lis. 5c?. New Three per Cents. The balance 
of the current account in the hands of the bankers, on the 1st 
instant, -was 3,668Z. 12.?. Sd., and 3000Z. remained on deposit; 
these sums will eventually be required to meet the expenses of 
the Bristol Meeting. 
The increased and still increasing operations of the Society 
have led the Council to consider whether the Secretary and 
Editor is adequately remunerated for the additional labour and 
responsibility involved in the performance of his duties ; and, 
as an acknowledgment of the high sense entertained by the 
Council of the ability and energy shown by Mr. Jenkins in the 
performance of those duties, they have resolved that an addition 
of 200Z. per annum be made to his salary. 
The Bristol Meeting will be held on Durdham Down, on 
July 10th, and four following days, and will be distinguished 
by an exhaustive trial of Dairy appliances, the improvement 
of which is annually becoming of more importance to the 
English dairy-farmer, both on account of the great scarcity 
and increasing cost of skilled labour, and in consequence of the 
improved quality of Foreign Dairy products. The encourage- 
ment of Dairy farming will also be promoted by the compe- 
tition for the Prizes offered by the Local Committee, not only 
for Cheese and Butter, but also for the best managed Dairy 
Farms in Gloucestershire, East Somerset, and North Wilts, for 
which there are 15 entries. For the Prizes offered for Arable 
Farms in the same district only 3 entries have been made. 
The district assigned for the Country-meeting of 1879 com- 
prises the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, 
