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raasemeiits with the profeasora of the Society, for the 

 ciisuitig: lectures of the session ; and to report the same 

 to the Council at its next monthly meetiiiir. 



4. That each lecturer be required to furnish the Secretary, 



within one month from the date of delivery, with a copy 

 of his lecture prepared for publication. 



5. That a short-hand writer be engaged by the Society for 



the use of the lecturer, if required by him. 



Prof. Voclcker, who was present, cheerfully acceded to 

 the wishes of the Council, and engaged that the cor- 

 rected oopy of his lecture should be placed in the hands 

 of the Secretary on the day after its delivery, ready for 

 immediate publication. He considered that leading 

 expositions of the agricultural questions of the day were 

 best adapted for the purpose of lectures intended to be 

 of a popular character ; while the more matured discus- 

 sion of results obtained ia the laboratory, and their 

 bearing on the principles and practice of agriculture, 

 should be reserved for papers in the Journal, for which 

 it was his intention that one at least should constantly 

 be prepared and laid before the Journal Committee for 

 publication in each successive number of the Journal. 



Thrashing-machines.— Colonel Challoner, as 

 Chairman of the Implement Committee, reported that 

 Messrs. Garrett and Sons, of Saxmundham, having in- 

 quired " for what machines prizes Nos. 6 and 7 (in 

 the Society's Implement-sheet for the Chester Meeting) 

 are oflered, whether they are to be simple thrashing- 

 machines, or combined machines having a straw-shaker, 

 screen, or winnowing-apparatus attached, or one or 

 more of these additions?" the Implement Committee 

 had agreed to the following resolution, namely, " That 

 the prize No. 6, for the best portable thrashing- 

 machine for 6-horse power, is restricted to a simple 

 thrashing-machine, having a straw-shaker; and that 

 the instructions to the Judges would be in accordance 

 with such resolution : That the machine for prize No. 

 7 would have a similar restriction, only would be 

 worked by sfeam." 



Chester Meeting. — The Hon. W. G. Cavendish, 

 M.P., Vice-Chairman of the General Chester Com- 

 mittee, reported the favourable progress of the arrange- 

 ments for the ensuing Chester ]\Ioeting in July. He 

 made (special reference to the plans under consideration 

 for the best mode of exhibiting the very large amount 

 of chfieses expected to compete for the local prizes in 

 thafcdepaitment. 



Stewakp-Elect of Implemej!ts. — On the motion 

 of Sir Archibald Macdonald, Bart., seconded by the 

 Hon. W. G. Cavendish, M.P., Mr. Cardwell, of Hil- 

 borowe Hall, was unanimously appointed steward-elect 

 of implements at the Chester Meeting. 



Country Meeting of 1859. — Memorials and other 

 documents received from cities and towns within the 

 district of the country meeting for next year (comprised 

 of the counties of Berks, Northampton, Oxford, and 

 Warwick), were referred to an Inspection Committee, 

 consisting of the Hon. W. G. Cavendish, M.P., Mr. 

 Raymond Barker, Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, Mr. Fisher 

 Ilobbs, and Mr.Milward, with a request that they would 

 visit the several localities to which the society had thus 

 been invited, and report the resuU of their personal in- 



spection to the Council at its next monthly meeting ia 

 May. 



Member of Council.— On the motion of Mr. 

 Fisher Hobbs, seconded by Mr. Milward, Mr. Huskin- 

 son, of Epperstone, Nottinghamshire, was unanimously 

 elected a general member of Council, to supply the va- 

 cancy occasioned by tlie transfer of Mr. Thompson to 

 the class of Trustees. 



Labourers' Cottages.— Sir John William Lub- 

 bock, Bart., favoured the Council with the details of 

 expenses incurred by him in the construction of a 

 labourer's cottage in accordance with the plans of Mr. 

 Isaac, of Bath, published in the Journul of the Society. 

 This communication was referred to the Journal Com- 

 mittee, with a request for a special report. 



Adjourned to April 14, 



A Weekly Council was held on the 14th of April : 

 present— Lord Berners, President, in the chair, Mr. 

 Alcock, M.P., Mr. Raymond Barker, Mr. Foley, M.P., 

 Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Rev. L. V. Harcourt, Mr. Thomas 

 Scott, Mr. Vyner, and Mr. Burch Western. 



INI. C. B. von Neergaard addressed a letter from 

 Denmark, announcing his invention of a drill-plough, 

 which he desired to have exhibited, and if possible tried, 

 at the Chester Meeting. Mr. Freer, of Rolhley, applied 

 for a further trial of his grain and seed-planting ma- 

 chine, exhibited at the Salisbury Meeting. 



The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland 

 presented copies of their premium-list of essays and 

 reports for 1858 and 18.59, and of stock, implements, 

 &c., for their general show at Aberdeen at the end of 

 August, 1858, and at Edinburgh in 1859. The Essex 

 Agricultural Association transmitted the rulesand schedule 

 of prizes for their exhibition at Chelmsford, on the 15th 

 of June next. Mr. Tanner presented a copy of his Prize 

 Essay on the Cultivation of Dartmoor ; the editor of the 

 Dublin Agricultural Revieio, the first number of that 

 new periodical ; the Caliiornian Agricultural Society, the 

 (^.fficiat Report of their fourth annual fair hehl at Stock- 

 ton in the autumn of last year ; the Normandy Associa- 

 tion a copy of their Anmtaire ; the Algiers Society the 

 4th No. of their proceedings ; the editors of the 

 Archives (Id V Agriculture of Lille and the Revue 

 Agricole of Valenciennes, copies of their respective 

 journals ; M. de Gingins d'Eclepens( foreign juror from 

 the Swiss Government at the Chelmsford Meeting), a 

 copy of his Report addressed to the Swiss Federal 

 Council, on the Chelmsford Show, and on English Agri- 

 culture ; the Count dc Gourcy, a copy of his agricul- 

 tural PcVc'i/'"?««'^«o«A'; and M. Rohart, a copy of his 

 elaborate work on the Economical Miinufacturc of 

 Manures. 



The Council, having ordered their acknowledgments 

 for the favour of these presents, decided, at the sugges- 

 tion of the President, to recommend to thrt Monthly 

 Council that the attention of the Journal Committee 

 should be called to the foreign works recently presented 

 to the Society, with the view of having such portions 

 of them trnn'-lated and published in the Journal as might 



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