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of the Merchandise Marks Acts. Arrangements were accordingly 

 made with the Solicitor of the Treasury for the prosecution of 

 certain of the cases which were supported by evidence sufficient 

 to afford reasonable probability of a conviction. These cases 

 were still pending at the end of the year. 



The returns received under the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs 

 Act, 1893, show that in 1901 analyses were made in 60 counties 

 and boroughs in Great Britain, as against 58 in 1900. The 

 total number of samples analysed, which had been practically 

 stationary in the three preceding years, increased in 1901 

 to 1,068, or 94 more than in 1900. Both fertilisers and feeding- 

 stuffs participated in this' increase. No samples were submitted 

 for analysis last year in 20 English, 3 Welsh, and 14 Scotch 

 counties. 



The Report also contains an account of the measures adopted 

 in the autumn of 1901 to exterminate the Colorado beetle, with 

 which certain allotments at Tilbury were found to be infested. 



Information interesting to agriculturists was disseminated by 

 means of special reports, the Journal, and leaflets. The total 

 number of leaflets issued in 1901 was approximately 587,400, 

 and the number of separate applications for copies in the year 

 was about 4,500. 



Report on the Progress of the Ordnance Survey to March 31^, 

 1 90 2 . [Cd. 1243.] Price 4^. 4d. 

 The revision of the Cadastral Survey of England and Wales 

 on the ^j-qu scale, which was begun in 1894, has now been 

 completed for the following counties, viz. : Anglesey, Bedford, 

 Berks, Bucks, Cambridge, Carnarvon, Chester, Cumberland, 

 Denbigh, Derby, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Flint, Glamorgan, 

 Hants, Hertford, Hunts, Kent, London, Merioneth, Middlesex, 

 Monmouth, Montgomery, Northampton, Northumberland, Notts, 

 Oxford, Salop, Stafford, Surrey, Sussex, Westmorland, Wilts. 

 The revision is still in progress for the counties of Gloucester, 

 Hereford, Leicester, Radnor, Somerset, Stafford, Suffolk,Warwick, 

 and Worcester. Maps on the scale of 6 inches to a mile, reduced, 



