Report to the General Meetiruj, Dec.^ 1852. 



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occasioned by the transfer of Sir John Johnstone's name to the 

 list of Vice-Presidents, the name of Mr. Francis Woodward, of 

 WcHxestershire ; one of those intelligent practical agriculturists to 

 whom the Society owes so much of its public utility, and also 

 one of the oldest Members residing in the district of the ensuing 

 year's Country Meeting. 



The Finances of the Society are in a satisfactory condition, as 

 is shown by the Auditors' Balance-Sheet to the 30th of June 

 last ; since which time the Finance Committee have reported, 

 that all claims against the Society submitted to them up to their 

 last Meeting had been discharged, and that the funded property 

 invested in the names of the Trustees of the Society now stands 

 at 9990Z. stock. 



The Council receive with satisfaction the testimony of the 

 Members to the still increasing value of the Society's Journal, 

 and to the immediate and extensive influence resulting from the 

 almost simultaneous transmission of the copies, free through the 

 post, to the numerous Members of the Society diffused throughout 

 the kingdom ; as w^ell as to that secondary and local influence 

 arising from a knowledge of the facts and practical statements in 

 its pages, personally communicated by each Member to other 

 parties residing within the sphere of his own particular neigh- 

 bourhood. 



The Chemical Investigations continue to be steadily pursued 

 by Professor Way, with valuable results obtained at each stage 

 of his inquiries, leading on step by step through the labyrinth 

 of nature's operations to new discoveries of the machinery by 

 which she works in secret, and to the prospect of entirely new 

 applications in the economy of agricultural laws for the cultiva- 

 tion of the soil and the manuring for crops. The Society have 

 also been indebted to Professor Way for an interesting and 

 valuable Lecture, delivered by him before tlie Members, during 

 the past half-year, on the elucidation of Jethro Tull's principles 

 of agriculture by modern science, and their illustration by 

 modern facts. 



