IV 



Report to the General Meeting. 



the Master and Fellows of Downing College for permission to 

 erect on their quadrangle the pavilion for the great dinner on the 

 Wednesday; and to the Mayor and Corporation of Cambridge 

 for their grant of the use of Parker's Piece for the Cattle Show, 

 and for the admirable arrangements they effected for preserving 

 the peace and good order of the town during the extraordinary 

 influx of strangers on that occasion, which were so successful that 

 not a single misdemeanor or breach of the peace was reported 

 to the Watch Committee during the three principal days of the 

 Show. They have also had the satisfaction of returning the best 

 thanks of the Society to the Earl of Hardwicke and the Cam- 

 bridge Committee for their zealous co-operation in carrying out 

 the various details affecting the success of the Meeting, and to 

 those gentlemen who so liberally came forward to offer every 

 facility in the trial of implements, especially to Mr. Grain and 

 Mr. Emson for the use of their land, and to Mr. Bryant, Mr. 

 Witt, and also Mr. Emson, for the gratuitous supply of horses 

 for working the machinery, as well as to Mr. Swan of Cambridge 

 for the offer he made to the Committee of the use of his land for 

 the trial of the subsoil-ploughs. 



The Council have decided on selecting Liverpool as the place 

 of the next Annual Meeting of the Society ; and they anticipate, 

 both from the position and importance of the tov/n itself, and the 

 ready modes of conveyance and access to that seaport, a meeting 

 of an extensive and important character. 



The Finance Committee have been actively engaged in simpli- 

 fying the mode of keeping the accounts, and thus checking any 

 casual errors which may from time to time arise from the inser- 

 tion of so large an increase of new Members in the Register of 

 the Society, and obviating the temporary confusion which has in 

 some cases been occasioned by similarity of name, and error or 

 imperfection in the address of their residences ; and they have re- 

 commended that the financial year of the Society shall in future 

 be established, not as formerly, by the irregular periods of the 

 General Meetings, but in half-yearly divisions from January to 

 June, and from July to December inclusively, and the auditors' 



