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and uncertain counsels will always prevail. It is not the duty of 

 such philosophers as Liebig to make the direct applications of the 

 laws of nature which they discover to the actual practice of the 

 field. It is, however, the duty of the practical man thoroughly to 

 understand these laws, and to find their technical applications for 

 himself, for this is his art, as the other is the science of the philoso- 

 pher. The recent review of the agricultural experiments which 

 are supposed to be so antagonistic to Liebig's views of the science, 

 Dr. Playfair had endeavoured to show were, when properly discus- 

 sed, strongly confirmatory of them, and the antagonism was due 

 not to any inherent contradiction between the philosopher and the 

 farmer, but to a want of understanding as to their relative positions 

 and duties to each other. 



[L.P.] 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, June 2. 



William Pole, Esq. M.A. F.R.S. Treasurer and Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



James C. C. Bell, Esq. Consul for the Grand 



Duchy of Tuscany. 

 Charles Oliver Frederick Cator, Esq. 

 William Crawford, Esq. 

 Frederick William Irby, Esq. 

 William Gibbs, Esq. 

 John Smith, Esq. and 

 Theodore Talbot, Esq. 



were duly elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



George Hudswell Westerman, Esq. 

 was admitted a Member of the Royal Institution. 



The following Presents were announced, and the thanks of the 

 Members returned for the same : — 



From 

 Airey^ G. B. Esq. F.R.S. Astronomer-Royal— D'lscnssion of the Deviations of 

 the Compass in Wood-built and Iron-built Ships. (Phil. Trans.) 4to. 

 1856. 



