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Reports of Committees. 
on Monday, April 2nd. Letters had 
been read from Messrs. W. & T. Avery, 
offering to lend a cattle weigh- 
bridge for use in the stock-yard, and 
from Messrs. Pooley & Son, offering 
a weighing machine for the fodder- 
yard at Cambridge, and the Commit- 
tee recommended the acceptance of 
these offers. Various letters from 
intending exhibitors at Cambridge 
had been read, and instructions given 
thereon. 
Selection. 
Earl Cathcart reported his elec- 
tion as Chairman of the year. Pro- 
fessor Chauveau having expressed 
his gratification at being elected an 
Honorary Member of the Society, the 
Society’s Seal was, on the motion of 
Earl Cathcart, seconded by Sir 
Nigel Kingscote, ordered to be 
affixed to his Diploma. 
Education. 
Mr. Dugdale reported Lord More- 
ton’s election as Chairman for the 
year. The examiners in the several 
subjects at the Senior Examination, 
to be held from the 8th to the 1 2th 
May next, had been appointed. An 
application for a free grant of a set 
of the Society’s Insect Diagrams had 
been declined. 
Dairy. 
The Hon. Cecil T. Parker re- 
ported his election as Chairman of 
the year. Nineteen entries had been 
received in Class 284, for preserved 
butter, and the butter was now 
stored in a cool cellar at Cambridge 
to await the opening of the show. A 
suggestion had been offered of de- 
monstrations of fattening and dress- 
ing poultry at the Cambridge Meet- 
ing. The Committee did not see 
their way to advise that anything 
should be done in that direction 
during the present year, but a note 
had been made of the matter for 
consideration in connection with the 
Country Meeting of 1895. Various 
details in connection with the dairy 
at Cambridge had been discussed 
and settled. 
Suggestion at General Meetihg. 
The Council then proceeded to 
consider the following suggestion 
made by Surgeon Lieut.-Col. Ince, 
M.D., and Mr. G. D. Yeoman at the 
General Meeting held on December 
7th, 1893 : — 
That the Report of the Council to the 
General Meeting should be placed in the 
hands of members before the day fixed for 
the meeting — 
and agreed upon the following 
reply : — 
This is a question which has been fully 
considered by the Council upon two previous 
occasions, viz., on March 7, 1888, and June 5, 
1889. The two General Meetings of the 
Society to which printed reports are pre- 
sented by the Council are held respectively 
on May 22 (the Anniversary General Meet- 
ing) and the Thursday of the Smitlifield 
week. The Report of the Council to the 
May Meeting is usually prepared on the first 
Wednesday in May, but cannot be immedi- 
ately issued, owing to the necessity for 
including in it details of the entries of stock, 
poultry, produce, Ac., which have been 
made for the ensuing Country Meeting, and 
the entries for which do not close until May 
12. Of recent years, however, an endeavour 
has been made to communicate the Report 
as soon as it is complete to the agricultural 
papers in time for publication prior to the 
meeting, so that members may hare the 
opportunity of ascertaining its contents 
beforehand. The Report has been so pub- 
lished upon several occasions, and this 
course will in future be adopted in regard to 
the Anniversary Meeting whenever it is 
possible. 
The December General Meeting is in a 
different category altogether, and any alter- 
ation of the existing system would dislocate 
the whole of the Society’s procedure. The 
Report to this meeting is only prepared by 
the Council on the day preceding the meet- 
ing, when also the final settlement is made 
of the prizes for the Country Meeting of the 
next year, in accordance with the Standing 
Orders of the Society. The various an- 
nouncements as to these prizes constitute a 
large portion of the Report, and if the 
General Meeting were held at a date after 
the Smithfield week, the members who are 
chiefly interested in this Report would in all 
probability be absent. 
Copies of each Half-yearly Report are, 
however, always available by 11 o’clock upon 
the day of the meeting for the use of those 
members who are desirous of perusing it iu 
anticipation of the meeting at uoon. 
Date of Next Meeting. 
Various letters and other docu- 
ments having been laid upon the 
table, and other business transacted, 
the Council adjourned until Wednes- 
day, March 7th, at noon. 
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