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Downs, Suffolks, Wensleydales, Border Leicesters, Somerset and 
Dorset Horned, Kentish or Romney Marsh, Cheviots, Black-Faced 
Mountain, Lonks, Herdwicks and Welsh Mountain. Those for Pigs 
will include the Large White, Middle W’^hite, Small White, Berk- 
shire, Black, and Tamworth breeds. Prizes will also be given for use- 
ful descriptions of Poultry, including Table Chickens and Ducklings ; 
for Cheeses of 1892 and 1893 make, and Cream Cheese ; for Fresh 
and Salt Butter ; for Cider and Perry ; and for J ams and Preserved 
Fruits and Vegetables made in 1892. The British Beekeepers’ 
Association will continue their Prizes for Hives, Honey, and Bee 
Appliances. 
13. Butter- making Competitions will be continued at Chester in 
four classes, together with a Champion class for the Society’s Silver 
INIedal and a prize of 61. There will also be competitions of Shoeing 
Smiths practising in the district of the Meeting, comprising 
Cheshire, Lancashire, and North Wales. The competitions will be 
in two classes, viz. for Hunters and Agricultural Horses, and five 
Prizes will be offered in each. The Worshipful Company of Farriers 
liave generously offered, as before, to provide the First Prize in each 
of these two classes, and to bestow the Freedom of their Guild upon 
the two first-prize winners. The Registration Committee of the 
Farriers’ Company will also admit all the winners of prizes in 
these Competitions to the official register of Farriers or Shoeing 
Smiths free of charge, and will give facilities for the examination of 
competitors who desire to be admitted to such Register. 
14. Memorials have been received from the Corporations of 
Cambridge and St. Albans inviting the Society to hold its Country 
Meeting of 1894 in their respective towns. The customary Com- 
mittee of Inspection has been appointed to report on the sites and 
other accommodation offered by each locality, and a final decision 
as to the place of the Country Meeting of 1894 will be made by the 
Council in February next. The Council have decided to offer Prizes 
for Oil Engines in connection with the 1894 Meeting. 
15. Owing to the large increase in the number of Members, 
and the general extension in late years of the Society’s operations, 
it has become necessary to relieve the Secretary from the extra 
work caused by the quarterly publication of the Journal. Tlie 
Secretary has therefore been released from his editorial responsi- 
bilities in connection with the Journal, and the editorship thereof 
has been intrusted to Dr. William Fream at a remuneration of 500^. 
per annum. 
16. The Council regret to report that, in consequence of ill- 
health, Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod felt compelled in J uly last to relin- 
quish her post of Honorary Consulting Entomologist, which she has 
held with so much advantage to the Society since the year 1882. Miss 
Ormerod kindly undertook to reply to pressing inquiries from 
Mcinbcrs durijig the autumn reccs.s. and furnished a large amount 
