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Bopal ^[gri'cuUural ^otitt}) of Ofnglauti. 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanover Square, Saturday, December 10, 1842. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Society having now attained an amount of nearly 6500 
members, and excited throughout the kingdom, and even in dis- 
tant colonies of the empire, a lively interest in the prosecution 
and success of agricultural improvement, it has become a suitable 
subject of inquiry at the present moment, to ascertain in what 
manner, and to what extent, its labours have tended effectively to 
disseminate a knowledge of improved systems and carefully- 
tested practices of modern husbandry, and to advance in their 
turn, by experiment, observation, and sound deduction, the stand- 
ard of correctness in our general principles of agricultural rea- 
soning. 
This important task has been undertaken and accomplished by 
Mr. Pusey : and in the portion of the Journal distributed within 
these few weeks among the members, your former President has 
given to the agricultural world a distinct and most interesting 
survey of the successful mode in which the objects of the Society 
have slowly, but steadily and effectively, developed themselves 
during that brief period of its history. That contribution to your 
Journal will be regarded as a most important document by the 
numerous members into whose hands it has, in the ordinary course 
of circulation, already found its way ; and while it supplies to the 
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