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Report to the General Mectinr/. 
Meeting-, and it is confidently anticipated that the large number 
of visitors to London during the ensuing year will ensure a 
numerous attendance in the Society's Show Yard. The Council 
have fixed that the Meeting shall take place in the week com- 
mencing Monday, the 23rd of June next, and have determined 
that there shall be an Exhibition of Implements, but that the 
trials for fixed and portable Steam-engines, fixed and portable 
Finishing-machines, Hand-dressing Machines, and Barley-hum- 
mellers, being the last of the Quadrennial Series, shall be post- 
poned till the following year. 
It has been determined to add to the Prize-sheet classes for 
Longhorned, Norfolk and Suffolk Polled, North and South 
Wales, Kerry, and Alderney and Channel Islands Cattle ; and 
in Horses, classes for Suffolk, Carriage and Roadster Horses ; in 
Sheep, classes for Lincolns, Cotswolds, Hampshire Downs, and 
West Country, Dorset, Oxfordshire Downs, Romncy Marsh, and 
Mountain and Irish Long-woolled ; and in Pigs, a class for the 
Berkshire breed ; amounting in the whole to 3570/. The High- 
land and Agricultural Society of Scotland have offered prizes for 
Scottish Stock amounting to 597Z. A list of prizes for Foreign 
Stock, amounting to 750/., will be transmitted to foreign countries 
through Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 
A Special Committee has been appointed to confer with the 
Governors of the Royal Veterinary College, in order that the 
veterinary privileges of Members of this Society may be placed 
on a more satisfactory footing. 
In accordance with the Charter of the Society, it is necessary 
to hold a Country Meeting of the Members in every year. The 
Council have, therefore, determined that the same shall be held 
for 1862 (pro forma) in the town of Windsor. The district for 
the Society's Country Meeting for 1863 will be that comprising 
South Wales and Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, and Worcester- 
shire. 
An interesting paper on British Wool has been read to the 
Society by Mr. Caird, M.P. ; and, in order to give to the nume- 
rous foreigners who may be expected to visit the Metropolis 
during the ensuing year an opportunity of inspecting samples of 
the wool of our native breeds and crosses, the Council have re- 
solved to exhibit this product in the International Exhibition of 
1862 ; for which purpose space has been granted by the Royal 
