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ancient works on Agriculture have recently been presented by 
various donors to the Society’s Library, which with similar works 
purchased at favourable opportunities by the Society itself, and 
those previously in the Library, will help to form a very valuable 
collection of classical agricultural literature. In view of the increased 
bookshelf accommodation available in the new house, the Council 
will feel greatly indebted to any Governors and Members who, upon 
inspection of their Libraries, may find themselves in a position to 
present to the Society any works upon Agriculture that it may not 
already possess. Amongst the recent additions to the Library is a 
complete set of the “ Memoirs of the Rothamsted Experiments,” 
presented by the Board of Agriculture. 
11. The preparations for the forthcoming Country Meeting at 
Cambridge next month are well advanced. The Meeting will be 
held on Midsummer Common, an open space of 64 acres near the 
centre of the town. As the Council have already reported, it 
became necessary, in view of the fact that the area of the Show- 
yard could not be extended, to impose some limitations on the 
entries both of implements and stock ; and the 13,402 feet of 
shedding applied for in the former department will monopolise, 
with the 1864 entries of horses, cattle and sheep, and the entries in 
the other departments, the whole of the space available for the 
purpose. For the same reason, the Council were obliged to close 
the list of entries of live stock on May 1— the last day of entry 
at ordinary rates — and to decline all post entries, in accordance 
with the intimation printed in the Prize Sheet and on all the 
certificates of entry. They have, however, passed a new regula- 
tion allowing an exhibitor who has already made an entry of horses, 
cattle or sheep in a particular class to withdraw the entry of such 
animal, and to substitute for it, up to Thursday, May 31, the 
entry of another animal in the same class, on payment of an extra 
fee. This regulation, besides being, it is hoped, a considerable 
convenience to exhibitors, will have the additional advantage of 
reducing the number of empty stalls and pens in the Sliowyard. 
12. In the Implement Department, the number of feet of shedding 
(exclusive of open ground space) actually allotted is 13,402 feet in 
442 stands, as against 13,018 feet in 408 stands at Chester last 
year, and 12,511 feet in 411 stands at Warwick in 1892. Notwith- 
standing the limitation of the maximum space allowed to an 
exhibitor to 100 feet (instead of 150 feet), and the fact that a 
number of applications had necessarily to be declined, the Implement 
Department will still be the largest of any Meeting in the last 
fifteen years, except the Jubilee Meeting at Windsor in 1889. 
13. For the reasons stated in another paragraph (23), the Council 
have felt it necessary to decline all the entries of Pigs which were 
tendered : but, even under these circumstances, and the final closing 
of the lists at an earlier date than usual, there are still 1864 entries 
in the Live Stock Department, or more than at Warwick in 1892, 
