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election of Sir T. Dyke Acland, Bart., M.P., and Mr. Dent ; 
and the two vacancies in the Council which were reported at 
the General Meeting in December have been filled up by the 
election of Sir R. Musgrave, of Eden Hall, Penrith, and Mr. W. 
Prankish, of Limber Magna, Ulceby ; while the elections of 
Mr. W. Cayley Worsley, of Hovingham, York ; Mr. Hugh 
Aylmer, of West Dereham, Norfolk ; and Mr. Robert Russell, 
of Horton Kirby, Kent, have filled the vacancies caused by the 
death of Mr. Torr, and the transfer of two Members of the 
Council to the list of Trustees. 
The vacancy caused by the death of Lord Tredegar will pro- 
bably be filled up in June. 
The accounts for the year 1874 have been examined and 
certified by the auditors and accountants of the Society, and have 
been published in the last number of the ' Journal,' together 
with the statement of receipt and expenditure connected with 
the Country-meeting at Bedford. The net deficiency of those 
receipts, as compared with the expenditure, was 3717/., to meet 
which the Council have applied the surplus ordinary income of 
the year, in addition to the sum realised by the sale of 3000/. 
New Three per Cents, previous to the General Meeting in 
December. The funded capital of the Society now stands at 
21,112/. 7s. 8c?. New Three per Cents. ; and the following sums 
were, on the 1st instant, in the hands of the bankers, available 
for the ordinary purposes of this Society and towards defraying 
the expenses of the forthcoming Taunton Meeting, namely, on 
deposit 1500/., and balance of the current account 3321/. Os. 5rf. 
The receipts at the Country Meetings of the Society having 
proved for several years in succession inadequate to meet the 
expenditure, to an extent which has caused a diminution of 
6300/. in the Society's capital in the course of five years, the 
Finance Committee have specially brought this mattqr under 
the notice of the Council, particularly with reference to the cost 
of the Trials of Implements. After an extended investigation 
and much discussion, the Council have resolved that the Imple- 
ment Trials shall still take place annually ; but that the list ol 
classes of implements to be tried, in addition to new inventions 
which may be tried in any year, shall for the present be con- 
fined to the following : — Double-furrow ploughs, root-thinnors, 
manure-distributors, mowing-machines, horse-rapes, haymakers, 
reaping-machines, sheaf-binders, stacking - machines, stone- 
