Contents of Volume 69 . [ 7 ] 
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Statistics affecting British Agricultural Interests .... 361 
I. — Summary of Report ....... 361 
II. — Tables of Acreage, Live Stock, and Yield of Crops . 366 
III. — Prices, Imports, and Exports of Agricultural Produce . 372 
The Soil, by A. D. Hall (A Revieiv) ...... 382 
The Weather during the Agricultural Year, 1907-1908 . . . 384 
By Frederick J. Brodie, F.R. Met. Soc. 
Rainfall, Temperature, and Bright Sunshine during 1908 . . 390 
The Rainfall of 1908 ......... 391 
John Thornton .......... 394 
George Henry Sanday . . . . . . . . 394 
APPENDIX. 
List of Council of Royal Agricultural Society of England . i 
Standing Committees of the Council ...... iii 
Chief Officials of the Society ....... iv 
Distribution of Governors and Members of the Society, and of 
Ordinary Members of the Council ..... v 
Governors of the Society ........ vii 
Honorary Members of the Society ...... xiii 
Summary of Members on Register, December 31, 1908 . . xiii 
Life Governors and Members paying an Annual Subscription . xiv 
Table showing the Number of Governors and Members in each 
Year from the Establishment of the Society ... xv 
Financial Statement by the Chairman of the Finance Committee xvi 
Balance-sheet for 1908, with appended Statements of Ordinary 
Income and Expenditure and of Receipts and Expenditure 
at the Newcastle Show, 1908 ...... xviii 
Trust Funds held by the Royal Agricultural Society . . . xxii 
Statement showing Distribution of Prizes at Newcastle Show . xxiii 
Memoranda .......... xxviii 
Minutes of the Council Meetings in 1908 ..... xxix 
January 29, xxix ; February 26, xxx ; April 1, xxxii ; 
May 6, xxxiii ; June 3, xxxiv ; July 1, xxxvi ; July 4, xl ; 
July 29, xli ; November 4, xliii ; December 9, xlv. 
Proceedings at the General Meeting, July 2, 1908 . . . xxxvii 
Proceedings at the Annual General Meeting, December 9, 1908 xlvii 
Reception of Representatives of the National Agricultural 
Society of Hungary xxxv 
Officials and Judges at the Newcastle Meeting, 1908 . . . liii 
Awards of Prizes at Newcastle, 1908 Ivii 
Prize List for Gloucester Show of 1909. .... cxxxi 
Principal Additions to the Library ...... cxli 
Index to Yolume 69 ........ cxliii 
