xl Report to the General Meeting. 
attended the Meeting as a Governor of the Society and graciously 
identified himself with its objects by evincing a lively interest in 
the whole of the proceedings. The Council, on leaving York, 
conveyed to the Lord Mayor and the authorities of the city, and 
to the local committee, and others who had zealously co-operated 
with the Council in promoting the success of the Meeting, an 
expression of their best acknowledgments for their kind exertions 
on the occasion. Although the receipts of the show-yard were 
very great, and lOOOZ. was liberally presented to the Society 
through the authorities of the city, the outlay , required for so ex-: 
tensive an assemblage of implements and cattle, and for the 
elaborate and highly satisfactory trial of implements on the occa- 
sion, has pi'oved so great, that over and above the 1383Z. awarded 
in prizes for implements and stock, the excess of expenditure over 
receipts on account of the York Meeting amounts to 1 126/., as will 
be seen by the following tabular statement, in which a comparison 
is instituted between the result of this and former Meetings : — 
Year 
of 
Locality. 
\ Entries 
of 
Entries 
of Im- 
Receipts. 
Expen- 
diture. 
Excess of 
Expen- 
Meeting. 
Stock. 
plements. 
diture. 
£. 
£. 
£. 
1839 
Oxford . . . 
249 
23 
2,394 
2,688 
294 
1840 
Cambridge 
352 
36 
3,416 
3,589 
173 
1841 
Liverpool . . 
319 
312 
4,106 
5,052 
946 
1842 
Bristol . . . 
510 
455 
4,202 
4,775 
573 
1843 
Derby . . . 
730 
508 
3,390 
5,090 
1,700 
1844 
Southampton . 
575 
948 
4,929 
5,736 
807 
1845 
Shrewsbury . 
437 
942 
3,662 
5,166 
1,504 
747 
1846 
Newcastle . . 
613 
735 
4,119 
4,866 
1847 
Northampton . 
459 
1,321 
4,565 
4,863 
298 
1848 
York .... 
724 
1,508 
4,831 
5,957 
1,126 
The Council have the gratification of reporting that the suc- 
cessful issue of the implement trials — a result so long desired, but 
only iinperfectl}' obtained at former Meetings, was mainly owing 
to the untiring energy with which the Stewards of that depart- 
ment, the Judges, and the Consulting Engineer acted in concert 
for the attainment of that great object, by bringing to the test of 
practical trial those recommendations of the Implement Com- 
