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their trust to make use of such powers. In some other cases it was 

 found that the herbage had been let, but that the rents had not been 

 applied in accordance with the provisions of the Inclosure Acts. 



Reference has been made to those cases in which no use whatever 

 appears to be made of the recreation ground, but probably the danger 

 of the loss of public rights may be even greater in those cases where 

 the herbage is let. This is expressly permitted by the Inclosure Acts ; 

 and it is obvious that the feeding off of the grass is quite consistent 

 with the exercise by the public of their right of using the ground- for 

 purposes of recreation. When the herbage is let the right of the 

 parishioners to the use of the ground remains, and no agreement to 

 let which purported to prevent such user would be valid. But there 

 is reason to believe that in some cases the recreation ground is let to 

 the occupier of adjoining land, and is used by him to the practical 

 exclusion of the public, and a long continuance of a tenancy under these 

 circumstances may, and in fact sometimes does, lead to difficulty when 

 an attempt is made to re-assert the right of public user. 



Under Section 74 of the Inclosure Act, 1845, allotments were set 

 out in 94 cases — with a total area of 464 acres — to private individuals, 

 subject to the obligation of maintaining the fences, preserving the 

 surface, and permitting the land to be used for exercise and recreation 

 by the inhabitants of the parish and neighbourhood. This section was 

 repealed by Section 25 of the Commons Act, 1876, and as periodical 

 reports have not been required in respect of these allotments, no in- 

 formation as to the present position of these recreation grounds is 

 available except in a few cases which have been especially brought to 

 the notice of the Board. 



A list, extracted from the awards in the custody of the Board, of 

 all the grounds which were so set out is given in the Report. The 

 Board have no information as to the present position of these grounds, 

 but it is not unreasonable to assume that the right of recreation has 

 not in every instance been more effectively maintained in the case of 

 those allotments which were entrusted to private individuals than in 

 the case of those which were placed in charge of public authorities. 



A memorandum is also printed in the Report as to the lav/ relating 

 to recreation grounds allotted under the provisions of the Inclosure 

 Acts, 1845 to 1899. 



At a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, held at Sheffield on September 6th, 19 10, certain papers were 



The Interpretation r 4 ead before lhe l A |f icu i' uraI . Su , bsec f tio " of the 

 4.u -n ij. Association on The Magnitude of Error m 



ot the Results A . ti - ■ t „ . , 



of A r* It 1 Agricultural Experiments,' and in view of 

 g u lira ^ i m p 0r t a nce of the subject the Association 



-bxperiments. suggested that the Board should undertake 



their publication with a view to securing for them a wider circulation 

 than they would obtain if issued merely under the auspices of the 

 Association. 



This suggestion was adopted, and a collection of papers on the 

 "Interpretation of the Results of Agricultural Experiments," by Messrs. 

 A. D. Hall, M.A., F.R.S., E. J. Russell, D.Sc, T. B. Wood, M.A., 



