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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
of the society, in the place of the late Earl Spencer, and his 
grace the Duke of Rutland a vice-president, in the place of 
the late Lord Braybrooke. They have also elected the Hon. 
Colonel Hood, Mr. Humberton (Mayor of Chester), Mr. 
Huskinson, and Mr. Hatton, general members of the 
council, to supply the vacancies created respectively by 
the transfer of Viscount Eversley to the class of vice-presi- 
dents, and Mr. Thompson to the class of trustees, and by 
the decease of Mr. Simpson and Mr. Stephen Mills. The 
funded capital of the society stands at £9,264 85 . 1 stock 
in the New Three per Cents. The chairman and vice-chair- 
man of the Journal Committee having announced to the 
council that their respective personal engagements will not 
allow them to devote, as they have hitherto done, so large a 
share of attention to the editing of the journal, have subse- 
quently acceded to the request of the council that they 
would continue their services until some permanent arrange- 
ment shall have been made. The governors of the Royal 
Veterinary College have presented their annual report of the 
progress made at that institution in the application of the 
veterinary art to the diseases of cattle, sheep, and pigs. 
They state that the number of pupils qualified to act as 
practitioners, in carrying out the objects of the society in 
this point of view, continues to increase; but they regret 
that the members of the society do not avail themselves 
more extensively of their privilege of sending diseased ani- 
mals in a live or dead state to the college, and thus furnish 
means for a larger amount of practical experience to the pro- 
fessor of cattle pathology and his pupils. The council have 
appointed Professor Voelcker, of the Agricultural College at 
Cirencester, as the consulting chemist to the society. They 
have also made arrangements with Professor Henfrey, of 
King’s College, for the delivery of a lecture on vegetable phy- 
siology, on Wednesday next, the 26 th of May. The council 
have adopted the recommendation of the local committee 
that a dinner should take place in the music hall at Chester, 
which is capable of accommodating five hundred guests. 
The council have appointed a committee to report upon the 
propriety of renewing or discontinuing, after the current 
year, the triennial arrangement for the trial of implements, 
adopted at the Chelmsford, Salisbury, and Chester meetings. 
The council have selected Warwick as the place of the 
country meeting for the year 1859, and have decided that 
after the year I 860 they will be prepared to hold a metro- 
politan meeting, should circumstances be found favorable 
in the meantime for the adoption of such an arrangement.” 
