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people by payment at the turnstiles or by Season Tickets are 
sufficient indications of the general interest taken in the London 
Exhibition. 
The Council refer the Members to the several reports on 
the different departments of the London Exhibition, published 
in the last number of the ' Journal,' from a perusal of which 
some idea of the magnitude and variety of that Exhibition, 
as well as of the difficulties under which it was held, may be 
gained by those who were unable to see it. 
The Council have great satisfaction in reporting that the 
establishment of the new laboratory has already been emi- 
nently successful in encouraging the Members to send samples 
of purchased manures and feeding stuffs to Dr. Voelcker for 
analysis. Since the opening of the laboratory last March up 
to the beginning of the current month, the number of samples 
sent to Dr. Voelcker for analysis was 843, being 296 more than 
those sent during the corresponding period of the previous 
year. 
The experiments at Woburn are being carried out on the 
same plan as hitherto, and a full report of the results obtained 
this year will be published in the forthcoming volume of the 
' Journal.' Notwithstanding the exceptionally unfavourable 
season, the Council are of opinion that the comparison of the 
produce obtained by the use of different manures will be both 
interesting and useful to the Members of the Society. 
Dr. Voelcker's Quarterly Reports on the adulteration of 
manures and feeding-stuffs show, that although the efforts of 
the Society have tended to the abatement of these practices to 
an appreciable extent, there is still great room for improvement. 
The want of ordinary firmness shown by those who, after 
putting the Society's Consulting Chemist and others to great 
trouble and correspondence in the investigation of the cases 
they bring forward, decline at the last to furnish the means of 
making them public, is one of the great difficulties with which 
the Council have now to contend. 
The magnitude of the Implement Show at Kilburn has again 
drawn the attention of the Council to the desirability of curtail- 
ing this department of the Society's Country-meetings. They 
have therefore resolved that the maximum size of stands be 150 
feet, and that the Implement Committee be empowered to decide 
