iv Mepoj't to the General Meeting. 
ment, practical experience will ever be held as the only safe test 
whereby to decide the question of their adoption. 
The Council are enabled to lay before the Members a most 
favourable report of the state of the Society in each of its execu- 
tive departments. 
The Finance Committee will present to the Meeting the 
balance-sheet of the general account as examined, and certified 
as correct by the Auditors of the Society. They will also sub- 
mit the special balance-sheet of the Northampton Meeting, 
exhibiting a considerably diminished amount of charge against 
the funds of the Society as compared with previous years. 
During the last half-year 57 Members have died, 221 have, 
on various assigned reasons, ceased to be members, and 193 New 
Members have been elected. The Society accordingly now con- 
sists of — 
93 Life Governors, 
190 Annual Governors, 
634 Life Members, 
5369 Annual Members, 
20 Honorary Members ; 
making a total of 6,306 Members. 
The Chairman of the Journal Committee has submitted to the 
Council the new part of the Journal of the Society, which com- 
pletes the volume for the year ; and its immediate distribution 
will take place among the M embers of the Society, under the 
usual regulations. 
The Country Meeting at Northampton has proved one of the 
most successful of those hitherto held by the Society — in the 
number of implements exhibited, the quality of the stock, and the 
assemblage of visitors in the Show-yard. The Society, before 
leaving Northampton, passed unanimous votes of thanks to the 
Mayor and Corporation, and to the Local Committees and other 
official authorities acting under their instructions, for the manner 
in which they had so zealously and cordially co-operated with the 
Council in promoting the success of the Meeting; and the 
Council conveyed to Mr. Shaw, of Cotton End, their best ac- 
