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publication ; <incl that a list of those Members from whom any 
subscription shall be clue on the Saturday next following the 
monthly meeting of the Council in August, shall be suspended 
in the council-room, the names to be classed according to tlie 
counties in which the Members reside, with the amount due 
from each placed opposite to his name. In the meantime the 
Finance Committee are engaged in making an accurate investi- 
gation into the income and expenditure of the Society, with a 
view of reporting the result to the Council. The Council would 
further suggest to the Members generally, that it would greatly 
improve the financial position of the Society, and facilitate their 
proceedings, if all subscriptions were paid to the bankers on the 
1st of January in each year, either by a general order to the 
bankers of the Member, or by cheque or post-ofBce order ad- 
dressed to the Secretary. The Council offer to the Members 
these suggestions with the greater confidence because they find, 
by their recent circular, that in a great majority of cases of arrear 
there is every willingness to meet the views and wishes of the 
Council on the subject. 
The Council have the satisfaction of finding that the Treasury 
Regulation to which they alluded in their last Report, for the 
transmission of books through the post office directly to the 
parties addressed, is likely to prove an invaluable aid in the im- 
mediate and certain distribution of the Journal among the Mem- 
bers, how ever remotely situated, and free of charge. The first 
issue of the Journal in August last, under these new regulations, 
has most satisfactorily proved their advantage. 
The Country Meeting held at the city of York in July last has 
realised the most sanguine anticipations of the Council, in the 
amount and quality of the exhibition, in the success of the prac- 
tical trials in the show-yard and in the field, and in the ample 
means of mutual interchange of opinion and detail of personal 
experience afforded by the assemblage of so large a number of 
visitors to that Meeting from every part of the country. In addi- 
tion to these favourable circumstances, the Meeting was honoured 
by the presence of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who both 
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