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for dressing grass land, both under rotation and in per- 

 manent pasture, no artificial compounds being found so 

 effective in its improvement. 



Had time permitted I should have liked to pass under 

 brief review, one or two more of the many other directions 

 in which natural science investigations have strikingly 

 advanced the progress of agriculture and influenced its 

 practice during the last GO years ; but already my address 

 has far exceeded the limits I had proposed even to myself, 

 and a consideration for your feelings compels me to bring it 

 to an end. The points I intended to take up were Natural 

 Science in relation to draining, to stock feeding, and to 

 grass cultivation ; but about such I must not speak at 

 present. Perhaps some one better qualified for the task 

 may be induced to contribute a paper thereon, as I am sure 

 the subject would interest many, and be of value, and not 

 out of place in our Proceedings. 



It becomes my duty before I sit down to record, which I 

 do with painful regret, that since this day twelvemonths 

 the Club is poorer in its membership by there having passed 

 from our midst, several well-known and much esteemed 

 members: — the President of last year, my immediate 

 predecessor in this honourable office, Mr Matthew Tewart 

 Culley of Coupland Castle, Mr Jonathan Melrose, Cold- 

 stream, Mr William Currie of Linthill, the Rev. Canon 

 Cooley, M.A., Ponteland, Mr Allan Swinton, Swinton House, 

 and Mr Ephraim Arkle, High Carrick. 



Mr Matthew Tewart Culley of Coupland Castle, who died 

 very unexpectedly on the 2nd of March last, was the direct 

 representative of the Culleys, so famous because of the part 

 they took in the unexampled progress made by agriculture 

 in the East Border District, from 1790 to 1830. Sir John 

 Sinclair speaks of one of these as " the celebrated George 

 Culley." Mr Matthew Culley, who was a Magistrate for 

 Northumberland, and High Sheriff of the County in 1869, 

 was an excellent linguist, and possessed a well-stocked 

 library. He was also a noted angler and is mentioned in 

 Henderson's " My Life as an Angler." 



