Report of Uie Council^ Decer)ihei\ 1853. xxv 



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 ascertain the 

 cause and possibly remedy the evil ; while it will afford an 

 opportunity to the Council, of recommending to the Society the 

 election from time to time of such representatives of large bodies 

 of members, at present unrepresented, particularly in the case 

 of Lancashire and the Principality of Wales, as may best pro- 

 mote the agriculture of the particular district and advance the 

 general objects of the Society : the Council being most anxious 

 that their body should be brought as nearly as possible to repre- 

 sent by its members the varied wants and wishes of the agricul 

 tural community. 



The advantages already gained to the individual members and 

 the country at large by the aggregate amount of single subscrip- 

 tions from numbers contributed to the Society, are such as ta 

 induce the hope of a still further augmentation of its subscribers 

 in different parts of the country ; while the improved facilities 

 of communication afford every opportunity by which payments 

 may be made, information sought or transmitted, and Journals 

 delivered free to the members at their own homes in the ordinary 

 course of the post : the railways furnishing rapid means of transit 

 for passengers, live stock, and implements from every part of 

 the kingdom, to the place where the annual country meeting 

 may successively be held. The funds thus accruing to the 

 Society from so large a body of paying members will enable it 

 to carry out those extended measures of public utility which 

 it would otherwise be unable to accomplish, and the personal 

 exertions and the practical experience brought into co-operation 

 with the Society by their means will confer incalculable benefit 

 on its proceedings. 



The Finances of the Society continue to receive the most 

 vigilant attention of the Council, and they feel it their duty^ 

 under circumstances however apparently pressing at the moment, 

 to guard their invested capital derived from life-compositions, 



