Report to the Anniversary Meeting. xxi 



The Journal Committee have reported that the whole of the 

 new Part is now printed, and on the point of publication ; and the 

 Council congratulate the members on the valuable matter which 

 the Journal, as their own publication, continues to comprise 

 within its pages. 



The Council have the gratification to find that no less than 

 2000 impressions of Mr. Main's article on Cottage Gardening, 

 printed separately for cheap distribution (at a penny each copy), 

 have been already distributed ; and that Mr. Burke has furnished 

 to the Journal a compilation on ' Cottage Economy and Cookery,' 

 which they intend shall be also reprinted in a similar cheap form 

 for distribution among the cottagers of the kingdom. 



The General Bristol Committee have reported the near com- 

 pletion of their arrangements, and the rapid progress already 

 made by Mr. Manning in the erection of the pavilion and show- 

 yard, agreeably with the plans adapted to the occasion, by the 

 favour of Sir Robert Smirke and Mr. Dean. They have also 

 accepted the handsome offer made to them by the Committee of 

 the Victoria Rooms of the free use of the whole of that large and 

 commodious building during the period of the meeting— an offer 

 not only most acceptable in itself, as supplying accommodation so 

 ample for the Council dinner, and for the various purposes in the 

 daily transaction of the business connected with the Council and 

 Finance Committee, but especially desirable from the circum- 

 stance of its immediate proximity to the show-yard and to the 

 pavilion erected within its enclosure : and have reported their 

 engagement in the preparation of a complete programme of the 

 meeting, a copy of which will in due time be transmitted by post 

 to each member of the Society. 



The Council have decided that the annual country meeting of 

 1843, for the north-eastern district (comprising the counties of 

 Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Lincoln, Rutland, and the north 

 division of Northampton), shall be held at the town of Derby; 

 where, the Council have been informed, a strong desire is already 

 felt to receive the Society in the most honourable manner, and 

 promote to the utmost of their power the success of that meeting. 



