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Report to the General Meetint/. 
devote his attention more exclusively to a detailed examination of 
the principles, construction, and practical working of the imple- 
ments exhibited. 
The Council have received from the Judges appointed for the 
trial of wheat selected at the Southampton Meeting, their re- 
spective reports on its cultivation, along with other local varieties. 
The Committee having reported to the Council that unexpected 
difficulties had arisen in effecting the analyses of the ashes of plants, 
for which the Council had voted a sum of money, the Council 
have requested the Committee to ascertain the actual state of the 
investigation, and favour them with a Report on the subject. 
Finances. 
The following statement of the number of members and the 
amount of income and expenditure, from the year of the Oxford 
Meeting to that of the Southampton Meeting inclusively, will 
show the corresponding relation of each of these particular heads 
of inquiry during the period of the Society's past history : — 
1838. . 
1839. . 
1840. . 
1841. . 
1842. . 
1843. , 
1844. , 
The arrears of subscription at the present time are as follows : — 
1841 £ 336 
1842 636 
1843 1141 
1844 • 1702 
1845 2987 
Members. 
Income. 
Expenditure. 
|2172 
£7446 
£6941 
4262 
5001 
4040 
5382 
6028 
5150 
6500 
6236 
5699 
6903 
7907 
6906 
6827 
9291 
9070 
Total £6802 
The total number of members in arrear is 2902. 
1915/. have been discharged from the arrear account since the 
last General Meeting in May. Since that date 264 new members 
have been elected, 42 have died, and 316 have been struck off the 
List; and the Society now consists of the following Members: — 
