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Report to the General Meeting. 
Since the date, in November last, when the Council ordered the 
sale of 1500/. from the invested capital, the following payments 
have been received : — 
Arrears of subscription £1,677 
Current subscriptions 1,847 
Life-compositions 389 
£3,913 
while every claim against the Society has been duly discharged. 
The continued indisposition of Mr. Pusey, and the consequent 
suspension of his long and invaluable labours to the Society as 
the Chairman of the Journal Committee, have rendered some 
new arrangements in that department necessary. The Council 
have accordingly requested Mr. Thompson to act as the Chairman, 
and Mr. Wren Hoskyns and Mr. Dyke Acland as Vice-Chairmen, 
of the Journal Committee. The new number is now in progress, 
and will be published on the 1st of July. Prizes have been 
awarded to reports on the Farming of Buckinghamshire and 
Warwickshire, and also to essays on the causes of Fertility and 
Barrenness in Soils, and Lameness in Sheep and Lambs : a paper 
in the latter class has been disqualified, on account of its delivery 
not having been made by the 1st of March ; and the prize in the 
class of Mildew in Wheat withheld, in consequence of the want of 
sufficient merit in the competing essays ; while adjudications 
have still to be reported in the five remaining classes. The fol- 
lowing subjects for the essays of next year have already been 
adopted : — 
1. Farming of Bedfordshire. 
2. On the Production of Turnips possessing good keeping 
qualities. 
3. Spring-feed Crops : with special reference to early growth. 
4. The different mechanical modes of deepening the Staple 
Soil, in order to give it the full benefit of atmospheric 
influence. 
5. The Chemical results superinduced in newly-deepened 
soil by atmospheric action. 
