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Cents. — a sum now fully repi'esenting the amount of composi- 
tions which have been received from Governors and Members in 
lieu of their annual subscriptions. 
The collection of the ariears of subscription has been steadily 
progressing under the Finance Committee ; th.e amount now due, 
inclusive of those in arrear for the current year, being 580/. ; 
and the Council hope that the new privileges accorded to the 
Members will have the effect of inducing a more punctual pay- 
ment in future. 
A Special Committee has been appointed to consider the 
question of the admission of short-hand writers or reporters from 
the press to the Weekly Meetings of the Council, and it has 
been determined that one reporter from each of the three Agri- 
cultural Papers, viz., ' The Mark Lane Express,' ' Bell's Weekly 
Messenger,' and the ' Agricultural Gazette,' and one from the 
London daily papers, shall be allowed to attend. Additional 
publicity will thus be given to Papers read before the Council. 
The sanguine expectations entertained by the Council as to 
the success of the Leeds Meeting were fully realised. On no 
Ibrmer occasion had the Society's Show Yard presented such a 
thronged appearance as on the two days of entrance at 1*-., when 
73,824 and 40,368 persons respectively paid for admission. The 
total number of visitors, exclusive of many members of the 
Society who for the first time exercised the privilege of free 
admission, was 145,329 ; amongst whom must be reckoned many 
of the mechanics of the town and neighbourhood, who viewed 
with intelligent interest the enormous collection of newly invented 
implements and magnificent stock submitted for their inspection. 
The interest of the Show Yard was greatly increased by the 
enclosure of a space for exercising the horses, which were thus 
seen to the greatest advantage. The Mayor, assisted by a local 
Committee, carried out all the arrangements in a very liberal 
spirit, and entertained the Members of the Society at a conver- 
sazione in the magnificent Town Hall of Leeds. 
The Council regret their inability to lay before the General 
Meeting a Report upon the Steam-Ploughing at Leeds, a com- 
plete Report from the Judges in that department not having 
been received. 
The First Commissioner of Works has granted the free use of 
a portion of Battersea Park for the purposes of the Metropolitan 
