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and wlio have not paid their contributions ; and any 

 member wlrse contribution shall be more than one yeat 

 in arrears, after the same shall become payable as afore- 

 said, provide«i payment thereof has been personally 

 demanded by the Treasurer or Collector; shall be consi- 

 dered as vvithdrawino-from the Society, and the same 

 shall be entered on the minutes. 



14 New rules, or alterations in the old rules, shall 

 be proposed and entered on the minutes at a preceding 

 stated meeting, and may at a subsequent stated meet- 

 ing be made with the assent of not less than two 

 thirds of the members present. 



15. The funds of the S eiety, unless for the ordinary 

 contingent expences, shall be disposed of oidy at a spe- 

 cial stated meeting, after a proposition therefor, shall 

 have been made at a previous stated meeting. 



16 At the first meeting of the Society, in January, in 

 every >ear, there shall be a revision of the then sub- 

 sisting rules, and the same shall stand confirmed, unless 

 revoked or altered by two thirds of the members present. 



17. Tlie particular obje 'ts of this Society are, to ob- 

 tain and communicate useful knowledge respecting 

 Agriculture, auf^ to stimulate exertions and inventions 

 in thai imiiortant science, by all the means which may 

 be in theii- power, and especially by |)roposing prizes 

 and premiums when their funds sliall enable them so 



Richmond Enquiter. 



On the jinahjsis of Soils, as connected imth their Iin" 



provcmcnt. By IIuwpiiuey Dan v, Esq. F. R. S. 



From the Communications of the Board of Trade. 



"Utility of Invcsti'yntions relating to the Analysis of Soils. 



Continued fi om page 239. 



IV. Method of collecting Soils J or Analysis. 

 Tn cases when the genera! nature of thp soil of a field 

 IS to be ascertained, specimens of it should be taken 

 from different places, two or three inches below the sur- 



