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ANNUAL LONDON MEETING, 

 May 22nd, 1839. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. 

 It is with much satisfaction that your Committee lay before the 

 Society their First Yearly Report on the general state of our 

 affairs ; since, although our efforts for the improvement of English 

 Husbandry are as yet necessarily imperfect, the support which 

 has been received from the public warrants a confident hope that 

 those efforts, if steadily continued on our part, will be duly 

 seconded on theirs, and will meet with final success. 



The number of our members consists, on this our first anni- 

 versary, of 230 Governors (72 of whom are for life, and 1 58 by a 

 subscription of 5?. yearly), and of 874 ordinary members (64 of 

 whom are for life, and the remaining 810 by subscription) : the 

 total being 1104 members of all classes.* 



A statement of our finances will be found in the balance-sheet 

 annexed to this Report. 



Since our last Report a list of prizes has been published for 

 stock to be shown at the approaching Oxford Meeting. These 

 amount altogether to 740 Z., besides 50/. for extra stock, imple- 

 ments, roots, and seeds, 50/. for a draining plough, and two prizes 

 of 50 sovereigns each for the best specimens of white and of red 

 seed-wheat; this last being an object which your Committee 

 regard as of especial importance. It has been already reported 



* On the 4th of September, 1839, the Enghsh Agricultural Society 

 consisted of 1838 Subscribers: namely, 2 Honorary Members, 80 Life- 

 Governors, 183 Governors, 90 Life-Members, and 1483 Members. 



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