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the admirable example of Lord Murray in Scotland who raised 

 the character of his tenantry by establishing Agricultural 

 Schools for boys, and in affording to the girls instruction in the 

 best management of Cows, Poultry and all connected with the 

 famale duties in a farm. M. Morris also proved the necessity 

 of Registrars on Estates having some knowledge in Chemistry, 

 to be able to ascertain the value of the manures they were adopt- 

 ing ; and as the strong element Guano had been used in the Co- 

 lony by several planters, he quoted the words of Lord Portman 

 to the Royal Agricultural Society in 1847, « that no less than 

 i hree fourths of what was sold as the most powerful manures, 

 consisted of the comparaiively inexpensive and inert sulphate 

 of lime (Plaster of Paris) with only one-seventh of the more 

 valuable phosphate of lime, and only l,200.h of the still more 

 active element of Guano, Ammonia. » Here then was a case 

 calling for the discrimination of the Registrars of every Estate, 

 here then was a powerful motive for acquiescing in his propo- 

 sition. Mr. Morris then went on to show how easy it would be 

 to establi h a Chemical School in connection with the Society, 

 and pointed out the beneficial workings of the Agricultural im- 

 provement Society in Ireland, of ihe Farmer's School in Yoik- 

 shire, of the Gardener's Instruction Socieiy in the Regents Park, 

 of the admirable results of the professorship in the University 

 of Edinburgh for instructing farmers sons, of the daily advan- 

 tages accruing to practical science from such Schools as the 

 Agricultural College of Cirencester, and the Agricultural Train- 

 ing School at Hoddesden in Hertfordshire. He mentioned also 

 as a most significant fact the avidity with which »The Essay on 

 tropical Agriculture » by Dr. Lovell Philips, was read and com- 

 mented on in England, and that such a man as Cuthbert John, 

 son, one of the greatest practical agricultural chemists of the 

 day, had published an English rural spelling book, c to raise 

 the character of the yeoman, and leach him at any rate the al- 

 phabet of Science. » Mr. Merris concluded by calling on the 

 Society to establish the Laboratory at least and to place at its 



