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3^0 pal aign'cuUural Society of a^uglanU* 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hakovee Square, Thubsday, Decembek 11, 1862. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
During the last seven months 23 Governors and INIembers have 
died; Avhile 5 Governors and 372 Members have been elected; 
so that the list now comprises— 
80 Life Governors, 
94 Annual Governors, 
1239 Life Members, 
3747 Annual INIembers, and 
17 Honoiary Members, 
making a total of 5177, being an increase of 354 since the last 
Report. 
The finances are in a satisfactory condition, as is shown by 
the balance sheet to 30th of June last ; since which time the 
Finance Committee have recommended the sale of lOOOZ. Stock, 
and have discharged all the claims against the Society submitted 
to them up to the last Meeting. The funded property now 
stands at 16,488/. 17s., in the New Three per Cents. 
The chemical investigations instituted by the Society are in 
a state of favourable progress in the Laboratory of Professor 
Voelcker, the consulting Chemist to the Society, who is occupied 
in experiments as to the most efficacious means of applying 
guano to the land, and also on the action of superphosphate of 
lime on different soils of known composition. During the past 
season he has been engaged in making field experiments on the 
wheat and mangold crops, the results of which will appear in a 
future volume of the ' Journal.' 
During the past summer a threatening disease known as the 
