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pursuit of agriculture and the establislimcnt of tlie most friendly 

 relations and communication between the Royal Agricultural 

 Society of England and the numerous native Agricultural Socie- 

 ties already established in the United States. 



The Council have had the pleasure of adding to the list of 

 your Honorary Members the distinguished names of Dr. Spren- 

 gel, residing in the kingdom of Prussia, not only one of the most 

 active cultivators of agricultural science in that part of the Con- 

 tinent, but the editor of a monthly Journal of Agriculture, and 

 author of numerous important works on Agricultural Chemistry, 

 the Doctrine of Soils, and a Treatise on Manures— from the latter 

 of which a chapter on Animal Manures has already been trans- 

 lated by your Secretary, and printed in the Fourth Part of the 

 Journal ; of Dr. Daubeny, the Sibthorpian Professor of Rural 

 Economy in the University of Oxford, who has liberally placed 

 his Lectures at the disposal of the Journal Committee ; and of 

 Professor Johnston, of the University of Durham. 



The Finance Committee have been applying their best atten- 

 tion to two most important points : first, the reduction of the 

 amount of arrears of subscription standing on the register of the 

 Society on the 1st of January last; and, second, the recommen- 

 dation of measures to obviate a similar accumulation for the 

 future. In their attention to the first of these subjects, they have 

 issued to each member in arrear a printed circular, informing 

 him of the circumstance and amount of his unpaid subscription, 

 suggesting a direct post-office order, payable to the Secretary, as 

 the simplest means of discharging the liability, and reminding him 

 of the by-law which prohibits the transmission of the Journal to 

 all members in arrear ; at the same time stating the fact of many 

 members having paid their subscriptions through country 

 bankers under names which at present could not be deciphered 

 in the manuscript of the banker's book, or consequently carried to 

 their credit in the Society's Register. In reply to this circular, 

 the Committee have reported a favourable result, both in the 

 payment of arrears and the explanations given in reference to 

 their occurrence. With scarcely a single exception these expla- 



