Report to the General Meeting. 
the Country Meetings for the ensuing four years, and have re- 
solved that every year a new district shall be added in advance to 
compensate for the one which will annually elapse : — 
1847. — The SouTn Midland District (comprised of the counties 
of Bedford, Berks, Buckingham, Hertford, Huntingdon, Northampton, 
Oxford, and Warwick). 
1848. — The Yorkshire District (comprised of the county of 
York). 
1849. — The Eastern District (comprised of the counties of Essex, 
Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridge). 
1850. — The Western District (comprised of the counties of Wilts, 
Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall). 
The Council have accepted the invitation of the authorities of 
Northampton to hold the Country Meeting of the Society for 
1847 at that town ; and already the Mayor and Corporation, 
under the great seal of the borough, have granted to the Society 
such liberal accommodation for the occasion, as to give reason to 
hope that the Northampton Meeting will prove in every respect a 
most successful and important one. In order to ascertain more 
fully the local feeling on the subject of the prizes offered for any 
particular year, the Council have, by an alteration in their bye- 
laws, postponed the final settlement of their prize-sheet from 
June to December in the year previous to that of a Country 
Meeting at which such prizes are to be awarded. Accordingly 
the prizes for the Northampton Meeting will not be finally settled 
until the month of December, 1846. In the meantime a preli- 
minary prize-sheet for that occasion is laid before the members at 
their present General Meeting, for the purpose of receiving from 
them such suggestions as they may think proper to make lo the 
Council. 
Report and Essay Prizes. 
The Journal Committee have reported the several Essays, 
required to be sent in for competition by the 1st of March last, 
to which the Judges have awarded the Prizes offered bv the 
^ociety ; namely, — 
