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Report to the General Meeting. 
tions have appeared in the published reports of the Council 
jNIeetings before which they were laid. 
The Council have the satisfaction of recording their belief 
that the Society is steadily progressing, and that, by adopting 
such improvements in its proceedings as experience may from 
time to time show to be necessary, it will continue to maintain 
its important position in promoting the advancement of scientific 
and practical agriculture. 
By order of the Council, 
B. T. Brandreth Gibbs, Hon. Secretary. 
