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Report to the General Meeting. 
Editor of the Society's Journal, at a salary of 500/. per annum ; 
his duties to he performed under the general superintendence of 
the Journal Committee, and his whole time to be at the disposal 
of the Society. 
The Council have recorded their high appreciation of the 
valuable services rendered by Mr. H. S. Thompson, M.P., and 
the other members of tlie Journal Committee, in conducting the 
Journal up to tlie present time. 
The Warwick meeting was in every way eminently successful, 
and the number of visitors who thronged the show-yard gave 
evident proof that the interest taken in the Society's country 
meetings remains unabated, whilst the entries of live stock and 
implements were unusually large ; indeed, the enormous display 
of the latter appears a satisfactory indication that the present 
quadrennial classification of implements for trial and prizes in 
no way interfered with the variety and general excellence of the 
exhibition as a whole. 
The Mayor and Corporation, aided by a local committee act- 
ing under their authority, rendered every assistance in carrying 
out all the arrangements that were necessary to be made in the 
locality. The competition for the local prizes for cattle, horses, 
sheep, pigs, cheese, wool, and farm-gates tended considerably to 
increase the interest of the meeting. 
The Council have also to acknowledge the courtesy of the 
County Magistrates, in giving the use of the Judges' lodgings 
for the accommodation of the Stewards of the Society during the 
period they were at Warwick. 
The arrangements that were decided on for the supply ol 
refreshments in the show-yard were a great improvement on 
former years. 
The Council have fixed that the Canterbury Meeting shall 
take place in the week commencing Monday the 9th July next. 
The Council have determined on tlie following arrangements 
for the Meeting : — 
That the Live Stock shall all be in the yard the afternoon of 
