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Report  to  the  General  Meeting. 
by  simple  inspection  of  the  mechanical  registration  of  results. 
Colonel  Challoner,  the  Senior  Steward  of  Implements  on  that 
occasion,  has  made  to  the  Society  his  report  of  the  exhibition  and 
trial  of  implements  at  the  Exeter  Meeting,  including  a description 
of  the  testing  apparatus  employed,  and  diagrams  illustrating  the 
momentary  variation  of  the  actual  power  either  possessed  by  the 
steam-engines  as  prime  movers,  or  required  to  work  the  various 
agricultural  machines  submitted  to  the  test  of  trial.  If  anything 
were  further  required  to  prove  the  excellence  of  the  Exeter 
Meeting,  it  would  be  the  occurrence,  for  the  first  time  in  the 
records  of  the  Society,  of  the  receipts  being  equal  to  or  exceed- 
ing the  payments  on  account  of  a Country  Meeting,  indepen- 
dently of  the  Prizes  awarded  on  the  occasion  ; the  Exeter  balance- 
sheet  now  laid  before  the  Members  showing  a balance  of 
96/.  2s.  9t/.  in  favour  of  the  Society. 
The  Council,  agreeably  with  the  bye-laws  of  the  Society,  pre- 
pared, on  Thursday  last,  a list  of  the  prizes  for  breeding-stock, 
to  be  offered  for  competition  next  year.  This  list  having  been 
printed,  copies  of  it  are  now  laid  on  the  table  for  the  information 
of  the  Members. 
The  Council  have  appointed  a Special  Committee  to  take  into 
consideration  the  whole  question  of  nominating,  selecting,  and 
appointing  the  judges  for  the  country  meetings,  with  a request 
that  they  will  favour  the  Council  with  their  report  on  the  subject 
in  February  next.  They  have  also  appointed  a certain  number 
of  their  members  to  meet  the  Governors  of  the  Royal  Veterinary 
College,  for  the  purpose  of  conferring  with  them  on  the  best 
mode  of  carrying  out  the  common  object  of  the  two  bodies, 
namelv,  the  application  of  veterinary  science  to  the  diseases  of 
cattle,  sheep,  and  pigs ; with  a request  that  they  also  will  report  the 
result  of  their  conference  at  the  same  date.  Professor  Simonds, 
the  Veterinary  Inspector  of  the  Society,  has  reported  to  the 
Council  the  result  of  his  inquiry  into  the  occurrence  of  several 
important  cases  of  disease  amongst  the  stock  of  Members  in  dif- 
ferent parts  of  the  country.  These  reports,  when  fully  completed 
by  further  results  of  direct  experiments  in  the  feeding  and  treat- 
