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GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanover Square, Saturday, December 13, 1845, 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council have to report to the Members at their present 
General Meeting the result of their consideration on the three 
following principal subjects during the past half-year, namely : — 
1. The Annual Country Meetings ; 
2. The Finances of the Society ; and 
3. The Potato Disease. 
Annual Country Meetings. 
The following comparative statement of the entries of stock 
and implements at eacK of the Country INIeetings already held, 
and of the amount of receipts and expenditure on each occasion, 
will furnish, at a single view, the requisite data for estimating the 
extent of the several Meetings, and their respective charge on the 
general funds of the Society : — 
entries. 
Stock. 
Implements. 
Receipts. 
Expendi- 
ture. 
Excess of 
Erpendi- 
ture. 
£ 
£ 
£ 
1839, Oxford . . 
. 249 
23 
2394 
2688 
294 
1840, Cambridge 
. 352 
36 
3416 
3589 
173 
1841, Liverpool . 
. 319 
312 
4106 
5052 
946 
1842, Bristol . . 
. 510 
455 
4202 
4775 
573 
1843, Derby . . 
. 730 
508 
3390 
5090 
1700 
1844, Southampton 
. 575 
948 
4929 
5736 
807 
1845, Shrewsbury 
. 437 
942 
3662 
5166 
1504 
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