JOURNAL 
OP THE 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
OF ENGLAND. 
THE CAMBRIDGE MEETING, 1894. 
The holding of this year’s Country Meeting at the ancient 
University town of Cambridge is an event which, by its associa- 
tions, carries us back to the earliest days of the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England. The first Show which the national society 
ever brought together was that at Oxford in 1839 ; the second 
was that at Cambridge in 1840. Between the dates of these two 
Meetings the Society — known originally as the English Agri- 
cultural Society — received (March 2G, 1840) its Charter of 
Incorporation as the Royal Agricultural Society of England, so 
that in a sense the Meeting at Cambridge, fifty-four years ago, 
may be looked back upon as the first Show held by the Society 
as at present constituted. Oxford was revisited in 1870, but 
the long interval just mentioned has been allowed to elapse 
between the first and second visits to the rival seat of learning. 
The incidents of the first two Country Meetings of the Society 
have been so fully dealt with by the Secretary in this 
volume of the Journal (Part II., pp. 205-234) that any further 
comparison between the first and second Meetings at Cambridge 
— in 1840 and 1894 — is rendered unnecessary. Subjoined are 
a few details as to the seven Meetings which have been held in 
the Eastern Counties. 
Entries 
Entries 
Persons 
Year 
meeting 
President 
of live 
of iniple- 
paying for 
stock 
meats 
admission 
1840 
Cambridge 
The Duke of Richmond 
337 
1 15 
no record 
1849 
Norwich 
Earl of Chichester 
G24 
1,882 
185G 
Chelmsford 
Lord Portman 
752 
2,702 
32,982 
18G7 
f Bury St. 
( Edmunds 
| Mr. H. S. Thompson 
719 
4,804 
61,837 
1874 
Bedford 
Mr. Edward Holland 
1,527 
5,931 
71,989 
1886 
Norwich 
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales 
1 ,823 
4,656 
101,909 
1894 
Cambridge 
The Duke of Devonshire 
1,864 
6,031 
111,658 
F p 
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