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’ 
Land, I herewith transmit for your information copies of the corres- 
pondence which have passed with that gentleman on the subject. 
“JT regret that the result should not have proved more 
favourable to your project; but from the enclosed letters, and more 
especially from Mr. Young’s last communication of the 29th ultimo, 
you will see that the obstacle to the proposed plan has been the 
apparent impracticability of carrying the fish in the mode you sug- 
gested, namely, in tanks placed in the poop of Convict Ships ; while, 
on the other hand, the alternative of using a welled Smack for their 
conveyance has, for the present at least, been abandoned, as being 
attended with too much expense. Under these circumstances, there- 
fore, it has not been considered advisable to take any further steps 
in the matter until I shall be in possession of any additional sug- 
gestions which you may have to offer upon it. 
‘‘ T have the honour to be, 
Sir, 
“‘ Your most obedient humble servant, 
“ GREY. 
IV. On Experiments for determining the Manures most 
suitable to the Turnip Crop. By Str W.T. Denison, 
F.R.S., de. [Read 9th October, 1850.] 
THERE is a Report drawn up by the members of the 
Annandale Farmers’ Club, and printed in the Transactions 
of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland for 
March, 1850, which is remarkable for two things :—Ist. The 
spirit which caused a body of farmers to unite and carry out 
a system of inspection, the sole object of which would appear 
to have been the attainment of information which they might 
apply usefully to the cultivation of their farms.—2nd. The 
results of the system of cultivation pursued. — 
As I believe that a system of careful experiment would 
be most advantageous to the agriculture of this colony, and 
