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Jlopal agn'rultuial J>oci'etj) of €nglauti. 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanover Square, Monday, December 9, 1843. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Annual Country Meetings of the Royal Agricultural Society 
of England have already been attended with so many important 
results to the particular districts in which thev have taken place, 
and to the kingdom at large, that the details affecting their future 
regulation, and the best means of renaering them still further use- 
ful and effective, are topics which have engaged much of the atten- 
tion of the Council during the past half-year. 
The Meeting at Oxford was eminently successful, and its ar- 
rangements, for so novel an undertaking, were in every respect 
adequate to the occasion. As a spontaneous assemblage of the 
friends of agricultural improvement, formed for the purpose of 
carrving out a great national object, that memorable first Country 
Meeting of the Society will, perhaps, never be rivalled ; but, in 
point of magnitude and detail in the department of the exhibition 
of stock and implements, a rapid increase has annually taken 
place, and in a ratio this year so unprecedented, that at Derby the 
show-yard occupied twice the space of that of either Oxford or 
Cambridge, and contained nearly four times the number of ani- 
mals, and more than seven times the number of implements, 
at Oxford ; exceeding, in this amount, the successful exhibition 
even of Bristol by 16.5 animals and 251 implements, there having 
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