Repwt to the Genei'al Meetiwj. 
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It has been resolved by the Council to apportion England and 
Wales into eight districts as follows : — 
(A.) Durham, Northumberland, aud XorLh and East Eidiugs of York- 
shire. 
(B.) Cumberland, Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Webt Eiding of York- 
shire. 
(C.) Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Xorthamptonshire, Notting- 
hamshire, Eutlandshire, and AVarwickshire. 
(D.) Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdon- 
sliire, Norfolk, and Sufiblk. 
(E.) Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Kent, Middlesex, Oxford- 
shu-e, Surrey, and Sussex. 
(F.) Cornwall, Devo^hire, Dorsetshire, Somersetshire, and Wiltshire. 
(G.) Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Worcestershire, and 
South Wales. 
(H.) Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and North Wales. 
The Council have determined that district B, comprising the 
counties of Cumberland, Lancashire, Westmoreland, and the 
West Riding of Yorkshire, be selected for the Country Meeting 
of 1869. 
During the course of this year alterations have been made 
in the scheme of Education adopted by the Council ; it is no 
longer connected with the Cambridge and Oxford Middle Class 
Examinations, 
The next examination is fixed to take place at the Society's 
House in Hanover Square during the week commencing April 
20th, 1868 ; forms of entry are prepared, to be duly filled up and 
returned to the Secretary (together with a certificate of having 
acquired the elements of general education) on or before the 
29th of February next. Any member of the Society may be 
present at an examination. On this occasion it is not thought 
advisable to place any limit on the ages of candidates, from the 
desire to remove every obstacle in the first instance to a candidate 
coming forward ; with the same object in view, an unsuccessful 
candidate at one examination (unless some reason should inter- 
vene beyond mere want of success) will be permitted to compete 
at a subsequent examination. 
Every candidate will be required to satisfy the examiners as to 
his knowledge of the science and practice of Agriculture, and 
likewise as to proficiency in book-keeping ; and he must pass an 
examination either in land-surveying or in mechanics as applied 
to Agriculture : beyond this it is left to his option which one of 
