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A most favourable answer has been received from some of the 

 governors ; and a meetmg will soon take place between them and 

 a delegation of your Committee^ from which the happiest results 

 may be anticipated. 



Correspondence with agricultural, horticultural, and other 

 scientific societies, both at home and abroad, being one of the 

 means proposed whereby useful information may be obtained, a 

 proposition has been made for opening a correspondence with 

 several societies at home ; from most of which, but most especially 

 from the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, your 

 Committee has received the strongest assurances of a desire to 

 establish a friendly communication with your Institution. 



Through the assistance of an able member of your Society, who 

 has recently been travelling on the continent of Europe, arrange- 

 ments have been made for opening a correspondence with the 

 Royal and Central Agricultural Society at Paris, the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society at Lyons, the Agricultural Society at Geneva, and 

 the Agricultural Society at Lille.* 



The diffusion of agricultural information being one of the most 

 important means whereby the English Agricultural Society hopes 

 to attain the objects contemplated by its establishment, diligent 

 consideration has been given to this subject; and your Committee 

 feels confident in stating that, early in the coming year, a plan 

 will be adopted for circulating as extensively as possible such 

 papers as may be deemed calculated to furnish useful information 

 to the farmer. 



Upon referring to the Report made by the Provisional Com- 

 mittee on the 27th of June last, it will be seen that at that time 

 the number of governors who had joined the Society was 186, of 

 whom 65 were life governors, and 121 annual subscribers of 5/. 

 each. That there Avere in addition 280 members, of whom 31 

 were life members and 249 annual subscribers : making a total 



* Arrangements have also since been made for opening correspondence 

 with the foreign societies of Toulouse and Bourdeaux. 



