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50/. — On the Dutch method of curing butter, 
20/. — For the best experiment in agriculture. 
The General Southampton Committee have reported their ar- 
rangements for the Meeting of the present year at that town in 
July next ; and the Council have ordered an extensive announce- 
ment of the prizes to be awarded on that occasion, amounting to 
upwards of 1400/., to be made by publication in the Journal, 
distribution of the prize-sheets, and advertisement in the public 
papers. They have the satisfaction of announcing that the im- 
plements entered for exhibition and trial at the Southampton 
Meeting already exceed by 1*23 the number of those at the Derby 
Meeting. The Council have decided that the Annual Country 
Meeting for the North Wales District shall be held at Shrews- 
bury in 1845. 
The Council have entered into a satisfactory arrangement with 
the executor of the late Mr. Webb Hall for the purchase, by 
valuation, of the library of the late Board of Agriculture, be- 
stowed upon his father at its dissolution. 
The Council have unanimously appointed Messrs. Thomas 
Gibbs and Co,, of Half-moon Street, Piccadilly, to be the seeds- 
men to the Society. 
The Council think it desirable to state, in conclusion, that all 
their Weekly Meetings, excepting that on the first Wednesday of 
the month, are set apart for the reception and discussion of agri- 
cultural communications, and that all members of the Society 
have the privilege of being present on those occasions. The ex- 
perience which the Council have already had of the sound and 
practical suggestions made to them at those Meetings, and the 
interesting discussions which have frequently arisen thereupon, 
induces them to invite all the members who may happen to be in 
London on the days of meeting to avail themselves of this privi- 
lege, — begging to assure them that their attendance on such occa- 
sions will be as acceptable to the Council, as it is at all times 
uniformly desired. 
By order of the Council, 
JAMES HUDSON, Secretary. 
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