xxii Report to ihe AnniccrHary Meeting. 



The interest which has been created throughout the country by 

 the present mode of a division of districts, in one of which the 

 place of the country meeting will be held successively year after 

 year; and the good effects which are likely to result in those 

 districts from the preparation set on foot in anticipation of the 

 meeting, hold out a distinct prospect of the great benefits eventu- 

 ally to be derived from this prescribed arrangement in the pro- 

 gress of the annual meetings throughout the country. 



The Council have enacted an important bye-law for regulating 

 the elections at the anniversary meeting, and facilitating the mode 

 by v.hich the members at large of the Society may, with the 

 utmost freedom, have an opportunity of recording their votes on 

 that occasion, in reference to the election of those members of the 

 Society whom they may think fit to elect to fill the vacancies in 

 the Council, annually created by the terms of the charter ; and 

 thus be enabled, from year to year, to make choice of such 

 members as, in their opinion, will best discharge the important 

 duties conferred upon them by that election. 



The Society is deeply indebted to her Majesty's office of Woods 

 and Forests, in receiving from that department of the government, 

 when under the control of Viscount Duncannon, every attention 

 in the institution, at their desire, of experiments by Mr. Griffith, 

 at the King William's-town Experimental Farm, in Ireland, on 

 the comparative dairy value of Scotch and Irish cows : and to Mr. 

 John Shaw Lefevre, who has communicated to the Council, on 

 the part of the Board of Trade, his intention to transmit to the 

 Society a notice of any important agricultural implements which 

 may, from time to time, be sent to that department of the govern- 

 X ment from abroad. 



The Council have to record their sense of Dr. Daubeny's dis- 

 interested liberality in undertaking, at his own expense, a journey 

 into Spain, for the express purpose of ascertaining the circum- 

 stances and extent, in the district of Estremadura, of the geo- 

 logical formation, or mineral vein, of phosphorite, or native phos- 

 phate of lime, a mineral substance, which holds out the prospect 

 of becoming, to a certain extent,, and when brought by artificial 



