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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



proper position, and be the guide and leader of practice 

 rather than simply an humble follower in its footsteps. 



On the motion of Lord Walsinghain, seconded bj' 

 Mr. Caldwell, the best thanks of the meeting were 

 voted to Professor Henfrey for tlie able, learned, and 

 interesting lecture with which he had then favoured 

 them. 



A Monthly Council was held on Wednesday, the 

 2nd of June ; present : Lord Berners, President (in 

 the chair). Lord Walsingham, Lord Faversham, Lord 

 Portman, Sir Philip Egertoii, Bt., M.P., Sir Archibald 

 Keppel Macdonald, Bt., Sir John V. B. Johnstone, Bt., 

 M.P., Hon. WilHam George Cavendish, M.P., Mr. 

 Raymond Barker, Mr. Barnett, Mr. Hodgson Barrow, 

 M.P., Mr.Barthropp, Mr. Bramston, M.P., Mr. Brand- 

 reth, Colonel Challoner, Mr. Druce, Mr. Brandreth 

 Gibbs, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Mr. Wren Hoskyns, Mr. 

 Humberson (Mayor of Chester), Mr. Lawes, Mr. Law- 

 rence, Mr. iMilward, Mr. Chandos Pole, Mr. Pope, Mr. 

 .Shuttleworth, Professor Simonds, Mr. Thompson, Mr. 

 Torr, Professor Voelcker, Mr. Burch Western, and Mr. 

 Wilson, of Stowlangtoft. 



The following new Members were elected : 



Armstrong, John, Palterton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire 



Barweil, Thomaa, Leicester 



Birchara, Merrick, Choaely, Docking, Norfolk 



Bowers, Henry Richard, Eaatgate Row North, Cheater 



Brooke, T. I. Langford, Mere Hall, Knutsford 



Brooks, James, Henley- OQ-Tliames, Oxfordshire 



Bowers, Toomas, Cheater 



Butt, Thomas, Pirlou Farm, Kempsey, Worcestershire 



Carr, William, Liugcliff, Settle, Yorkshire 



Cave, Heury Haddoo, Desborough, Market-Harborough 



Cnivas, George, Eastgate-street, Chester 



Clarksou, Townley L., South Elmham, St. James's, Harlestou, 



Norfolk. 

 Coggins, G. Fisher, Coombe, Woodstock 

 Cohen, William, Bishopsgate Churchyard, London 

 Etches, William, Harbyttiorn, Newcastle, Staffordshire 

 Faulkner, John, Bretby Farm, Burton-on-Trent 

 Fletcher, Samuel, Ardwick-place, Manchester 

 Foden, Johu, Mere, Kuutsford 

 Francis, Clemeut, Cambridge 

 Garnett, William, Clitheroe, Lancashire 

 Humble, William Turner, Sealand, Chester 

 Hunt, John, Rainham, Rougham, Norfolk 

 Kindersley, Edward Leigh, Syward Lodge, Dorchester, Dorset 

 Mansfield, John, Treat Vale, Newcastle, Staffordshire 

 Morrell, James, Headington-hill, Oxford 

 NortOQ, John Edward, M.D., Greyfriars, Chester 

 Parson, G. F , Waldriiigfield, Sudbury, Suffolk 

 Perren, W. B.,Compton, South Petherton, Somerset 

 Ruse, Robertson, Warfield, Bracknell, Berks 

 Savill, Heury, Boleyiis, Braintree, Essex 

 Saxton, William Waring, MarketDrayton, Salop 

 Sawers, John, Dunbar, Scotland 

 Smith, Thomas, The Lodge, Northwich, Cheshire 

 Wallace, John, Houghton, Stockbridge, Hampshire 

 West, Mrs. Sarah, Bletcbiugton, Oxfordshire. 



Finances.— Mr. Raymond Barker, Chairman of the 

 Finance Committee, presented the monthly report on 

 the accounts of the Society, from which it appeared 

 that the current cash-balance in the hands of the bankers 

 was £■'3,034. 



Prize Essays.— Mr. Tiiompson, Chairman of the 

 Journal Committee, repotted the following adjudica- 

 tions : — 



To J. Lang, M.D., of The Elms, Newton-Abbot, Devon- 

 shire, the prize of 10 Sovereigns, for his Essay on the 

 Cultivation of the Potato. 



To Henry Tanner, of the Lodge, Puddynton, near 

 Crediton, Devonshire, the prize of 50 Sovereigns, for 

 his Report on the Farming of Shropshire. 



To James Dixon, of Ashley, near Altringham, Cheshire, 

 the prize of 20 Sovereigns, for his Report on the Im- 

 provement of Grass Land by the Use of different 

 Manures or Mauurial Substances. 



Lectures. — Mr. Thompson also reported from the 

 Journal Committee the following recommendation, 

 which was adopted by the Council : " That Professor 

 Simonds be requested to give a lecture before the 

 Society, On the Blood, its composition and circida- 

 tion, with the diseases hi which it is chiefly affected : 

 the first part of the lecture to be delivered on Wed- 

 nesday, the 9th of June, at half-past 12 o'clock, and 

 the remaining second part on Wednesday, the 16th of 

 June, at the same hour." — The Council adopted the 

 recommendation of the committee, that Mr. Moflatt's 

 offer to deliver a lecture at Chester during the period of 

 the meeting in July next, should be declined with 

 thanks. 



Mr. Laaves. — Mr. Thompson having placed before 

 the President the engrossed resolution of thanks to Mr. 

 Lawes for his valuable contributions to the Journal of 

 the Society, along with a handsomely bound set of that 

 work, prepared for the occasion under the directions of 

 the Journal Committee, the President presented to Mr. 

 Lawes, in the presence of the Council, these tokens of 

 their high appreciation of his scientific researches and 

 practical labours for the promotion of the objects of the 

 Society. Mr. Lawes, in receiving them, thanked the 

 President and Council for the honour of this flattering 

 testimonial. He was well aware of the many defects in 

 those labours in which he had been employed for so 

 many years ; but he might venture to claim for himself 

 and his colleagues in the work their impartial and dis- 

 interested desire to promote by every means in their 

 power the advancement of agricultural science. 



Agricultural Chemistry. — Sir John V. B. 

 Johnstone, Bart., M.P., reported from the Chemical 

 Committee, that Professor Voelcker, the Consulting- 

 Chemist of the Society, had exhibited to the Committee 

 a diagram for experiments to ascertain the essential fer- 

 tilising value of ammonia as applied to root-crops ; and 

 that he intended, on a future occasion, to offer some 

 suggestions on field-experiments. Sir John Johnstone 

 then submitted an enlarged schedule of Members' Privi- 

 leges of Chemical Analysis, which was adopted by the 

 Council. In this new schedule, not only an opinion of 

 the genuineness of Peruvian guano may be obtained of 

 the Consulting-Chemist by members of the Society, at 

 the small fee of five shillings, but also a similar opinion 

 of the genuineness of bone-dust or oil-cake, at the same 

 rate of charge ; for the fee of a sovereign, not only an 

 analysis of oil-cake may be obtained by members, but 

 also of any other substance used for feeding-purposes ; 

 and not only analyses of animal products, at a fee varying 

 from ten to thirty shillings, but also " analyses of any 

 vegetable product;" such privileges, however, cot 

 being applicable to analyses made for persons com- 



