Report to the General Meeting. 
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Life Governora 94 
Annual Governors 198 
Life Members 527 
Annual Members 5899 
Honorary Members 15 
Total 6733 
The Council having ordered the List of the Society to be 
printed for the use of the members, it is now in the press, and will 
appear with the ensuing part of the Journal : and they beg to 
state that the members of the Society who receive the List and 
Journal will render a service to the Society by informing the 
Secretary of any errors they may observe in that List. 
Potato Disease. 
His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, one of the vice-pre- 
sidents of the Society, having placed at the disposal of the Society 
the sum of 100/., to be appropriated to such purpose for promot- 
ing the objects of the Society as the Council might decide ; the 
Council, with the Duke of Northumberland's entire concurrence 
and approval, have resolved to divide this donation into three 
prizes, to be offered for the best Essays on the potato disease and 
its history ; such Essays to be sent in to the secretary of the Society 
by the 1st of June, 1846: the Prize Essays in that class being 
reserved for announcement and reading at the Newcastle Meet- 
ing, namely: — 
I, Prize of 50/. for the best Essay on the remedy for the potato 
disease, and on its treatment in the various stages of planting, growth, 
and preservation. 
Competitors for this prize will be required to furnish information 
under the following heads : — 
An account of the growth of the potato during the last year, with re- 
ference to the nature of the season. 
The nature and cause of the disease. 
The remedies for the disease; explaining the principles on which the 
remedy is founded. 
The treatment of the potato in planting, both from the tubers and 
from the seed, and in various stages of its growth. 
