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ments, many expressing regret at the discontinuance of the 
members' refreshment tent. This is a matter which will also 
have to come under the consideration of the Council. The 
members should know that there are many things the Council 
would gladly carry out if their exchequer would permit. F(jr 
a national Society the number of members is insignificant, and 
it behoves all those who desire to see the Society advance, to 
induce their friends in their respective localities to place their 
names on the members' list. 
One of the most interesting proceedings of the week was 
that of the service in the large marquee on the Sunday morning. 
The attendance was very numerous, some 800 or more being 
present. The congregation was unique ; many were the parishes 
in almost ever}' nook and corner of England which were repre- 
sented in that assembly ; the Channel Islands, Scotland, and 
Ireland also contributing their members. The Bishop of Oxford 
was the preacher, and well will it be for all those who heard 
his practical, stirring, and faithful appeal, if they will practice 
in their every-day life what they then heard. 
For the complete arrangements of the Show the best thanks 
of the Society are due to its able Secretary and to the " General " 
Steward, Mr. Jacob Wilson, whose great ability and fitness for 
the office are acknowledged on all hands. The Stewards' work 
was made comparatively easy by the untiring exertions of the 
Assistant Stewards, Messrs. Tindall, Reynard, and Beck, jun. ; 
I think it due to those gentlemen to acknowledge their services, 
not only on behalf of the Stewards, but of the Society. 
Nothing more is now left for me than to thank my brother 
stewards and all the officers of the Society, from the highest to 
the lowest, for the great kindness and assistance I have at all 
times received at their hands. I shall ever look back with the 
most lively satisfaction to the pleasant associations of my four 
years' term of office. 
XXXII. — Report of the Live-Stock exhibited at the Society's 
Meeting, 1882. By the Rev. GEORGE Gilbert, of Claxton, 
Norfolk. 
At least three independent agencies — weather, population of 
district, and the great public of breeders — must all prove pro- 
pitious before any one of the Society's Annual Meetings can be 
said to have been really successful. Once a year, therefore, the 
Society has to risk no small part of its reserve forces — i.e. its 
funded capital and its reputation — to the keeping of allies over 
