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tiie space alloted to each Exhibitor, and to disqualify any of his 
proposed exhibits ; and that the charge for space in the mis- 
cellaneous department be doubled. 
The Carlisle Local Committee are co-operating with the 
Council in order to make the meeting next year as useful and 
as attractive as possible. The Local Committee have offered 
Prizes in four classes for the best managed farms in the Counties 
of Cumberland and Westmoreland and in the Haltwhistle Union 
of the County of Northumberland, and seventeen entries have 
been received. 
In addition to the Prizes for Live Stock which will be offered 
by the Society as usual, the Carlisle Local Committee propose 
to offier Prizes for Hunters, Hackneys, Coach-horses, Ponies, 
Galloway Cattle, Dairy Cows, and Butter. 
The Council have decided that the Judges of Implements at 
Carlisle shall be empowered to award gold and silver medals 
to any implements or machines for the cultivation of the land 
by steam or other mechanical force, which in the opinion of the 
Stewards and Judges are new inventions, and have not been 
previously submitted to trial by the Society. 
The Carlisle Meeting will commence on Monday, July 12th, 
and close on Friday, July 16th. 
The new arrangement with the Governors of the Royal 
Veterinary College continues to work satisfactorily, and the 
Council would again call the attention of the Members to the 
valuable reports by the Professors of the College on the princi- 
pal cases which have come under their notice. These reports 
are published in the Proceedings of the Council-meetings in the 
Agricultural Newspapers. 
The experiments on quarter-evil and allied diseases are still 
being carried on at the Brown Institution ; but the Director of 
the Institution finds great difficulty in procuring cases at a 
sufficiently early period of the disease. The Council therefore 
hope that any outbreak of quarter-evil or splenic apoplexy may 
be at once made known by telegraph to Dr. Greenfield, the 
Brown Institution, Wandsworth Road. 
In consequence of the numerous applications which Professor 
Simonds continues to receive for copies of his paper on sheep- 
rot, published originally in 1862, in the 23rd volume of the 
'Journal,' the Council have resolved to re-publish it as a 
