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therefore, beg to submit the balance-sheet for the year 1907 
with the Statement of Ordinary Income and Expenditure. 
These accounts were published in Volume 68 of the Journal 
issued to Members last March, having been duly examined 
and certified as correct by the Auditors appointed by the 
Members, and by the professional Accountants employed by 
the Society. 
13. Major Craigie, who acted as Editor of the last volume of 
the Journal, having found it necessary to discontinue the work, 
the Journal Committee have entrusted the task of pro- 
ducing the next number (Volume 69) to Mr. Kenneth J. J. 
Mackenzie, of the Agricultural Department, Cambridge 
University. 
14. During the past year several parties of agriculturists 
from different parts of Europe have visited this country, with 
the object of becoming acquainted with the methods adopted 
by the British farmer and stockbreeder ; and, in some cases, 
short tours were arranged by the Secretary, in conjunction 
with Members of the Society, who were good enough to receive 
these foreign visitors, and show them over their farms and 
breeding establishments. Chief amongst these parties, were 
the representatives (numbering about 50) of the National 
Agricultural Society of Hungary. On the day of their arrival 
in London, the members of this party were received, first of all 
by Earl Carrington, the President of the Board of Agriculture, 
at the House of Lords ; and later the same day, by the 
President of the Society, the Duke of Devonshire, and other 
Members of Council, at the Society’s House, 16, Bedford 
Square. The itinerary — in the arrangement of which Professor 
Middleton, of the Board of Agriculture, and Mr. T. S. Dymond, 
of the Education Department, rendered the greatest assistance 
— was of a very comprehensive character, and included visits 
to farms, experimental stations, &c., in different parts of 
England and Scotland. On their return journey from Scotland, 
the party spent two days inspecting the exhibits at the Newcastle 
Show, and were entertained by the Society to luncheon in the 
Showyard, the Duke of Devonshire presiding. The Chairman 
of the party, Count Esterhazy, expressed the pleasure their 
visit to this country had afforded them, and acknowledged the 
kindness of all those noblemen and gentlemen whose estates 
they had visited and to whom they were indebted for their very 
hospitable reception. 
15. The sixty-ninth Annual Exhibition took place, under 
the Presidency of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, upon 
the Town Moor, Newcastle-on-Tyne, from June 30 to 
July 4 last, and was, without doubt, the most successful Show 
in the history of the Society. Their Royal Highnesses the 
