CONTENTS OF PART I., VOL. III. 



I. — On the Improvements which have taken place in West 



Norfolk. By the Right Hon. Earl Spencer . . l 



II.— On the Advantage of Testing the Draught of Ploughs. 



By Henry J. Hannam ...... 9 



III. — Account of a Field Thorough-drained, at Drayton, in 

 Staffordshire. By the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, 

 Bart., &c. &c 18 



IV. — On the Connection between Geology and Agriculture in 

 Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset. By Sir Henry 

 T. De la Beche, Director of the Ordnance Geological 

 Survey . . . . . , . .21 



V. — Observations on the Wheat-midge. By the Rev. J. S. 

 Henslow, Professor of Botany in the University of 

 Cambridge ........ 36 



VI.— On the Use of the Great or Jersey Trench- Plough, exhi- 

 bited at the Society's Annual Meeting at Liverpool, in 

 July, 1841. By Colonel Le Couteur ... 40 



VII.— Observations on the Natural History and Economy of 

 various Insects affecting the Turnip-Crops; including 

 the Plant-Lice, Maggots of Flies, Caterpillars of 

 Moths, &c. By John Curtis, F.L.S. ... 49 



VIIL— On the Comparative Value of different kinds of Fodder. 



By the Rev. W. L. Rham 78 



IX. — On Cottage Economy and Cookery. Compiled by 



French Burke, from Essays submitted to the Society . 83 



X.— On the Present State of Agricultural Mechanics, and on 

 the Improvement of which the various Implements 

 now in use may be susceptible. By John Morton, 

 Jun. Prize Essay . . . . .100 



XL— On the " Tchornoi Zem," or Black Earth of the Central 

 Regions of Russia. By Roderick Impey Murchison, 

 F.R.S., President of the Geological Society . . 125 



XII.— Lecture on the Application of Science to Agriculture. 

 Delivered before the Society, on Thursday the 9th of 

 December, 1841. By Charles Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S., 

 Professor of Rural Economy in the University of Oxford 136 



