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brought by farmers or land-owners for that purpose. The 

 museum is open to the gratuitous inspection of the public, and 

 is clearly the germ of an institution of great magnitude and 

 importance. The establishment is at present under the manage 

 ment of Mr. Richard Phillips, P. R. S., a man deservedly emi 

 nent for his skill in chemistry and natural science, to whose 

 indefatigable kindness I should do great injustice to my own 

 grateful feelings if I did not here record my deep sense of obli 

 gation. 



XLII. CHEMICAL AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION IN 

 SCOTLAND. 



The farmers in Scotland, certainly inferior to none in agri 

 cultural enterprise, intelligence, and skill, and demonstrating this 

 by a husbandry most exact and productive, have associated 

 themselves together for the encouragement of the application of 

 chemistry to the improvement of agriculture. Proprietors of 

 land pay a yearly subscription of one pound or upwards to the 

 association, and tenants ten shillings. This sum entitles each 

 of them to two analyses a year at a certain fixed low rate. All 

 above that number are charged half more. The analyst is 

 required to give only such analysis as will answer the desired 

 purpose. Agricultural societies, by a yearly payment of five 

 pounds to the association, are entitled to one lecture from the 

 agricultural professor j for ten pounds, to two lectures, and so 

 on ; and the travelling expenses of the lecturer are likewise to 

 be paid by those who employ him. 



The society, more than a year since, proceeded to appoint, at 

 a liberal salary. Mr. F. W. S. Johnston, an agricultural lecturer 

 and chemist, to the office of chemist and lecturer to the associa 

 tion ; and a chemical laboratory and depository are established 

 and in full operation at Edinburgh. Mr. Johnston is well known 

 to the agricultural community by his valuable works on agricul 

 tural chemistry, some of which have been reprinted in the United 

 States, and in both countries have had a very extended circula 

 tion. The success of the association, it is reported, has been 

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