Report to the General Meetivg. v 



The Council have decided, subject to the usual conditions, to 

 hold the Society's Country Meeting next year at Chester ; and 

 have determined that the district for the year 1860 shall consist 

 of the counties of Kent and Surrey.' 



While the Chelmsford Meeting of last year was highly success- 

 ful in promoting the objects of the Society, it also proved in its 

 results to have been one of the most expensive in a financial 

 point of view ; and the Council have under their consideration 

 the adoption of various modifications which may tend to reduce 

 the expenditure of future country meetings, without diminishing 

 their practical efficiency. 



The steady increase of permanent Members on the list of the 

 Society, the great interest taken in its country meetings, and the 

 gradual union of the owners and occupiers of land, who are 

 thus brought into communication with each other, and led to 

 co-operate in the common object of promoting their individual 

 interests, while advancing at the same time the general cultivation 

 of the country and. the principles of rational agriculture through- 

 out the world, are circumstances which afford well-grounded satis- 

 faction at the beneficial influence of the Society's past operations, 

 and a just expectation of its continued and increasing usefulness. 



By order of the Council, 



James Hudson, Secretary. 



