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leaf-curl, sycamore leaf blotch, larch canker, and the damage 
caused by the elm bark beetle. A special case showed the 
extreme shallowness of one of the oolite soils and the gradual 
transition from the rock to the few inches of soil at the surface. 
The veterinary section included a case of horse shoes of 
• all descriptions, both for normal and pathological feet, made 
by the students at the College ; a number of specimens of 
incisor teeth of horses and cattle, illustrating the stages of 
development of the teeth at different ages ; some preserved 
dissections of limbs of the domesticated animals ; and an 
interesting collection of general pathological specimens, 
including calculi and hair balls from different animals, diseases 
of bone consequent on injury, and many others of interest to 
those having the care of farm live stock. 
The College also showed a comprehensive selection of 
wools from different breeds of British sheep and of foreign 
breeds, including the Angora and varieties of the Merino. A 
small quantity of Australian wool was shown in the condition 
in which it arrives in this country, containing numerous 
fruits of the medicago which has received the name of the 
“ Bathurst Burr.” 
VII. Agricultural Education Association. — The Association 
organised a depot for the distribution of the Reports and other 
publications of the contributing institutions, thus enabling 
visitors to obtain all the available literature upon the subjects 
illustrated in the Exhibition. 
VIII. Royal Meteorological Society. — A Department of 
Agricultural Meteorology was organised by the Council 
of the Royal Meteorological Society under the supervision 
of Mr. W. Marriott, the Assistant Secretary. In the grounds 
adjoining the Exhibition building, a grass plot, twenty feet 
square, was arranged as a typical climatological station. This 
included the following instruments for weather observations, 
which were all placed in position, viz. : — (1) Stevenson ther- 
mometer screen, fitted with dry bulb, wet bulb, maximum 
and minimum thermometers ; (2) Snowdon rain gauge and 
measuring glass ; (3) black and bright bulb thermometers 
in vacuo ; (4) grass minimum thermometer ; (5) Campbell- 
Stokes sunshine recorder ; and (6) earth thermometers (one and 
four feet.) 
In the building was arranged a very interesting series of 
exhibits. Among the diagrams were : — 
(1) Dr. H. R. Mill’s maps of the British Isles showing mean annual rainfall, 
1870-1899 ; rainfall of the wettest year, 1872 ; and rainfall of the driest year, 
1887. 
(2) Monthly distribution of rainfall according to altitude, up to 1,000 ft. 
above sea level, in the West and East of England. The latter diagram brought 
