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This schedule will enable those friends of the Society and of 

 agricultural improvement generally, who reside in districts where 

 the number of members is below the average, to remedy the evil 

 by recommending to the Council for election the names of can- 

 didates Avho will no doubt be ready to avail themselves of the 

 numerous advantages offered by the Society, and by their per- 

 sonal influence aid in the dissemination of the valuable infor- 

 mation afforded in the pages of the Journal, in the lectures 

 delivered to the members, and in the show-yard at the Country 

 Meetings. 



The Council have elected Mr. Wm. Burgess, of the firm of 

 Burgess and Key, to fill the vacancy caused by translation of 

 Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood to the list of Vice- 

 Presidents of the Society. 



The half-yearly statement of accounts to the 30th of June, 

 1864, has been examined and approved by the Auditors and 

 Accountants of the Society. The finances were never in a more 

 satisfactory condition than at present, the sum of 2000/. having 

 been lately added to the funded capital of the Society, which now 

 amounts to 18,7G8Z. Is. lOd, stock in the New Three per Cents. 



The Council have appointed a Committee to consider the 

 subject of the " Improvement of the Education of those who 

 depend upon the Cultivation of the Soil for their Support ; " and 

 in order to obtain information on this important subject, the 

 Council have offered a Prize of 50/. for an Essay on Agricultural 

 Education, and they have authorised their Educational Com- 

 mittee to invite examining bodies, such as the Universities of 

 Oxford and Cambridge, the Royal College of Preceptors, the 

 Society of Arts, &.C. «Scc., to appoint one of their members to 

 confer with the Committee. 



The Meeting at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was highly successful 

 in the amount and character of the live stock and implements. 

 The means for testing the power given off by agricultural ma- 

 chinery having this year been perfected in a striking and satis- 

 factory manner, by the consulting-engineer, Mr. Amos (of the 

 firm of Easton and Amos), who invented a Dynamometer, a 

 description of which will appear in the Journal, the Council 

 deemed it right to appropriate a large amount of money to the 

 trials of Steam-Cultivators ; and feel convinced that the members 

 generally have every reason to be satisfied that this was a 

 judicious appropriation of the funds of the Society, and a 



