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long before Mr. Davy himself, or some one named by him 

 and acting under his superintendence, will undertake the 

 business of analysing soils and manures for individuals at 

 a moderate fixed price for each substance that shall be 

 brought to them. 



The Royal Institution wish to have Mr. Davy's lectures 

 repeated at their house, and have desired me to ask whether 

 the Board of Agriculture have any objection to a measure 

 which appears to them likely to extend still farther. 



Having been requested to suggest what I think a proper 

 recompense to Mr. Davy on account of his six lectures 

 delivered at the Board, and also a plan for securing his 

 services in future to the Board of Agriculture, I beg leave 

 to propose that sixty guineas be given by the Board to Mr. 

 Davy as a remuneration for his six lectures, being at the 

 rate of ten guineas for each lecture, and that the office of 

 Professor of Chemical Agriculture to the Board, with a 

 salary of 100Z. a year, be offered to his acceptance ; the duty 

 of his professorship to consist of reading lectures in the 

 spring at such time as shall be fixed by the Board, on the 

 application of chemistry to the improvement of the art of 

 agriculture, and in making an analysis of such substances 

 as shall be put into his hands by the Committee, in case he 

 is of opinion that the result of such analysis is likely to 

 throw light on the theory and practice of that most useful 

 art. 



This Committee of Science also, as early as July 18, 

 proposed that in the ensuing session Mr. Dalton should 

 be engaged to lecture. 



The form which the Institution was at this time 

 about to take is well seen in the joint report of the 

 committees of science and accounts on the plan of the 

 lectures and experiments and other proposed arrange- 



