8 Lord Blantyre's Experiments on Potatoes and Turnips. 



presented his accounts for the past year, which showed a balance in 

 favour of the Society of £138 15s. l£d. 



The meeting then proceeded to tho forty-third annual election of 

 Office- Bearers, when the following were chosen : — 



President.— Professor Thomas Thomson, M.D., F.R.S., L. & E., M.R.I.A., &c. 



Vice-President, Walter Ckum,F.R.S. I Secretary, Alexander Hastie. 



Treasurer, Andrew Liddell. | Librarian, Thomas Dawson. 



A. Anderson, M.D. 

 J. H. Balfour, M.D. 

 A. Buchanan, M.D. 

 J. Findlay, M.D. 



COUNCIL. 

 Professor Gordon. 

 William Gourlie, Jun. 

 J. J. Griffin. 

 Alex. Harvey. 



William Murray, 

 JonN Stenhouse. 

 R. D. Thomson, M.D. 

 Alex. Watt, LL.D. 



Professor Gordon read a paper on the most economical use of 

 steam, which has been printed in the form of a pamphlet ; and Mr. 

 Stenhouse exhibited a yellow substance from India, called Purree, 

 from which Indian Yellow is prepared ; likewise a specimen of glass 

 silvered by the new process. 



4dh December, 1844. — The President in the Chair. 



The following Members were admitted : — Messrs. Alex. Warren 

 Buttery, James Allan, sen., George Thomson, Matthew Fairlie, S. P. 

 Cohen, Dr. Henry Bottinger, William Gilmour, jun. 



A minute of Council was read, recommending that £50 should be 

 granted for the purchase of books, and the payment of periodicals for 

 the current year. The following papers were communicated by Dr. 

 R. D. Thomson :— 



II. — Experiments with Manures on Potatoes and Turnips. 

 By Lord Blantyre. 



Experiment I. — On Potatoes— Cow Park of Porton Farm — Soil 

 poor and light — had been subsoiled previous autumn, after being 

 drained and ploughed for oats from old grass in 1842. One drill, 

 each plot for experiment, with each different rate of manure, being 

 about one-thirtieth of an acre. 



No. 1. — Dung at the rate of 30 tons per acre, 

 2.— Nothing, . 

 3. — 3 cwt. Guano per acre, 

 4. — 4 cwt. » 



5.—M cwt. ■ 



6 — 7i cwt. 

 7.-8 cwt. n 



8. — Dung at the rate of 30 tons per acre. 



