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met six times, and made six reports; and they recommended that 
the following be the committee for the ensuing year:—Earl 
Cathcart, General Yiscount Bridport, Sir M. White Ridley, 
Bart., the Hon. W. Egerton, Sir Brandreth Gibbs, Professor 
Brown, Mr. Chandos-Pole-Gell, Mr. W. Duguid, Dr. Wm. Smith 
Greenfield, Mr. M. J. Harpley, Colonel Kingscote, Mr. James 
Odams, Mr. G. H. Sanday, Dr. J. Burdori-Sanderson, Professor 
Simonds, Mr. W. H. Wakefield, Mr. Wm. Wells, Mr. Jacob 
Wilson. 
GENERAL MEETING, 
December \Zth, 1878. 
Extracts from Report of the Council. 
The preparations for next year's meeting of the society, which 
will assume the form and proportions of an International Agri¬ 
cultural Exhibition, are in active progress. A very convenient 
site at Kilburn, one hundred acres in extent, has been obtained 
from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, whose agents have shown 
themselves most desirous of furthering the objects of the Society. 
The land selected is situated between the London and North 
Western and the North London Railways, and adjoins the new 
Salusbury Road station on the former, and the Kensal Green 
station on the latter line. It is three quarters of a mile from the 
West-end station on the Midland Railway, and the same distance 
from the Westbourne Park station on the Great Western Railway. 
The prize-sheet will contain classes for all the distinctive breeds 
of English horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs, and also for the dis¬ 
tinctive breeds of foreign stock from countries which are not 
prohibited by any Orders in Council under the Contagious Dis¬ 
eases (Animals) Act, 1878. Prizes will also be offered for asses, 
mules, goats, butter, cheese, wool, hops, seed-corn, and meat. 
The Shorthorn Society have offered prizes for foreign shorthorns, 
the hop-growers have offered the prizes for English-grown hops, 
and the Mansion House Committee have offered the prizes for 
foreign stock and produce. 
The Exhibition will commence on Monday, June 30th, and will 
close on Monday evening, July 7th. 
During the past year the Legislature have amended the law 
relative to the contagious diseases of animals of the farm, giving 
additional protection against the importation of such diseases 
with foreign animals, and securing greater uniformity of action 
amongst local authorities in the event of outbreaks within the 
United Kingdom. The Council have continually urged the 
necessity of adopting measures based on these principles, and 
they trust that the recent Act, and the Orders of the Privy 
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