432 ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
“The Governors of the Royal Veterinary College have 
made a most satisfactory report to the Council of the suc- 
cessful manner in which the special objects of the Society in 
reference to domesticated animals have been carried out 
in that establishment under the inspection of Professor 
Simonds.” 
It then proceeds to comment on the arrangements made 
for the forthcoming meeting at Carlisle, and similar meetings 
to be held in subsequent years at other places, and states 
that thus — 
“ After a circuit of twenty years, the Society will return 
to that part of the kingdom in which, at the city of Oxford, 
under the most favorable circumstances, it held its first 
meeting. 
“ The Council have viewed with much interest the pro- 
gress of measures adopted by the government of France to 
stimulate and improve its agriculture. At the request of 
the French and English Foreign Departments, the Council 
have taken every means to make known in this country the 
inducements held out and the facilities afforded to the ex- 
hibitors of the United Kingdom, at the Agricultural Meet- 
ing to be held next month in Paris ; and they have decided 
that six of their members shall form a deputation to be pre- 
sent on that occasion. The Council trust that this inter- 
national gathering will be attended with the most favorable 
results to the agriculture as well as to the cordial understand- 
ing now so happily subsisting between the two nations. 
“ The Council have continued to be favoured by the Earl 
of Clarendon with copies of successive despatches received 
at the Foreign Office from Her Majesty’s Ministers and 
Consuls abroad, reporting the result of their inquiries and 
researches connected with the occurrence of guano of the 
nitrates in tropical districts. Some of these communications 
have been of an important character, and have referred to 
discoveries of extensive deposits of those valuable manures, 
as w^ell as to the occurrence of an unlimited supply of native 
carbonate of soda in South America. His Lordship has con- 
veyed to the Council an assurance that whatever facilities or 
privileges are granted to other countries by the governments 
within whose territories these newly-discovered deposits 
occur, will be claimed by Her Majesty’s government on be- 
half of the agricultural and commercial communities of the 
United Kingdom. 
“ By order of the Council, 
“James Hudson, Secretary.” 
