viii Report to the General Meeting. 
addition of lOZ. to the prize^ for the best Essay on the Construc- 
tion of Cottages, to the Rev. Copinger Hill^ of Buxhall, near 
Stowmarket ; and the completion of the new part of the ' Journal,' 
which will be published in a few da^s. 
The Council have to acknowledge the favour Professor Brande 
has conferred on the members, in delivering to them, at the 
request of Earl Spencer, your President, two Lectures in the 
Theatre of the Royal Institution, on the Chemical Constitution of 
Lime and Clay. 
The judges of the seed-wheat selected for trial at the Bristol 
Meeting having made their respective reports of the results ob- 
tained in cultivating the selected wheats along with well-known 
varieties of the neighbourhood in which each trial was made, the 
Council have decided, that although the white wheat promised 
favourably under certain circumstances, they had not at that time 
sufficient proof before them that it possessed the requisite amount 
of merit for the Society's prize ; while the two reds were very 
inferior in every respect. As the comparison had been made 
during an unfavourable season, the Council have decided that the 
white wheat shall have the advantage of a further trial. 
Agreeably with the Charter, the Council have filled up the 
vacancies in their body occasioned by the lamented deaths of Mr. 
Woods Page, Mr. Webb Hall, and the Rev. Mr. Rham, by the 
election of Mr. Compton, M.P. vice Mr. Page, to go out by 
rotation in 1844; Mr. Etwall, M.P. vice Mr. Webb Hall, to go 
out by rotation in 1844; Mr. John Hudson, of Castleacre, Nor- 
folk, vice the Rev. Mr. Rham, to go out by rotation in 1845. 
In conclusion, the Council have much satisfaction in reporting 
the increasing recognition of the utility of the Society, by the 
accession of members of all cleisses throughout the various districts 
into which the kingdom has been divided for the purposes of 
holding its country meetings ; and though the increasing numbers 
will generally be found in the peculiar locality of the year, still 
a very large addition is at the same time going on from every part 
of the country. 
By order of the Council, 
JAMES HUDSON, Secretary. 
