480 iiepod of the Senior Steward of Implements at Windsor. 
cheerful and unstinted energy of those charged with the details 
of the Meeting. Kor should a word of thanks be lacking to the 
police, who performed their difficult and responsible duties with 
the zeal and thoroughness to which, happily, we are so well ac- 
customed. To one and all, indeed, who helped to make the Show 
the success which it was, the Society's thanks are eminently due. 
My only apology to readers of the Journal for these some- 
what lengthy remarks is that they refer to the Great Show, 
which is now a matter of history. 
May the Royal Agricultural Society of England, whose motto 
is "Practice with Science," and whose Jubilee we commemorated 
last June, continue to flourish and live to celebrate its centenary 
under equally happy auspices ! 
I have now to say good-bye to my brother Stewards and 
all officials connected with the management of the Society's 
Country Meetings, and in doing so I thank all for their personal 
kindness to myself, for they have indeed been " oft to my 
faults a little blind." 
Memorandum hij the Secretary of ilie Societi/ on the Attendance,^ 
and Beceipts at the Windsor Meeting. 
The receipts at tlie doors and at the grand stands during the Windsor 
Show week were on the whole quite as gi-eat as could be expected, coii- 
siderinf? the distance from London and the absence of that large population 
in immediate proximity to the Showyard on which the Society has custo- 
marily to rely for its gate-money. A journey to the Show this year meant 
for the ordinary sightseer not merely a short walk over the hill on a special 
half-holiday, as was the case on the Thursday of the Nottingham Meeting, 
when 88,832 persons paid for admission, but a railway journey of uncertain 
duration and some expense as well. 
The first day (Monday), when the judging was going on throughout the 
yard, and when, therefore, there was but little to attract the ordinary non- 
professional visitor, was surprisingly good. No less than G,22;i persons paid 
tive shillings on that day, and in addition 2,o82 Members of the " Royal " 
were admitted free. Only twice before in the history of the Society has 
there been so large an attendance on the judging day, viz. at Birmingham 
in 187G and at Liverpool in 1877, and never has tliere been a more dis- 
tinguished assemblage to watch the awards of the Judges. 
There could be no advantage in attempting to contrast the attendances 
day by day with those of previous Shows, since weather, local circumstances, 
and special attractions like Eoyal visits count for much in determining tlie 
number of visitors ; but the tigures in the Table at the top of p. 481 will 
show that the attendance on the two half-crown days at Windsor (Tuesday 
and Wednesday) was distinctly better tlian the average. 
Thursday was a day hors liync The visit in semi-state of Her Majesty 
the Queen in her capacity as President of the Society was naturally an 
occasion when well-wisliers of the Meeting would make a point of attending ; 
and the receipts on that day (3,929/.) were, with two exceptions, larger 
than ever before, having only been exceeded on a half-crown day at Man- 
chester in 18G0 (4,953/.), and on the phenomenal shilling day last year at 
Nottingham (4,418/.). Remembering the unusual diffici-dties this year of 
