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recommended by the Council was unanimously adopted. A 

 circular letter was subsequently addressed to all the members 

 residing in the county, informing them of this change, and 

 earnestly appealing to them to exert their personal influence in 

 order to effect an object, the accomplishment of which the 

 General Meeting had declared to be essential to the well-being 

 of the Society. The time that has elapsed has been too short 

 to allow of a conclusion as to the ultimate success of this appeal ; 

 but the election of five or six county members which has 

 already taken place is an auspicious beginning, and appears to 

 the Council to warrant the hope of a revival of that zealous 

 support which the Society formerly enjoyed on the part of the 

 inhabitants of the county, and deprived of which it must 

 contract the sphere of its operations, and abandon the high 

 position which it has hitherto maintained. 



The Council consider the arrangement made with Mr. 

 Charles worth at the commencement of 1855, in other respects 

 very satisfactory, but since its success, as regards the finances 

 of the Society, is still doubtful, they have for the present only 

 extended it to another year. The Honorary Secretaries offer 

 the continuance of their services for the same period. 



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