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may be due to minute ingredients. No. 4. Limestone, or Marls, 

 including carbonates, phosphates, sulphate of lime, and magnesia, with 

 sand and clay, 1/. No. 5. Partial analysis of a soil, including sand, 

 clay, organic matter, and carbonate of lime, 11. No. 6. Complete 

 analysis of soil, 3/. No. 7. Letter, asking advice, one topic, 7s. 6d. 

 On more than one topic, 10s. No. 8. Oilcake, or dung, or any animal 

 products (such as cheese or butter in milk), nitrogen, and phosphoric 

 acid, 11. Oilcake, including nitrogen, oil, and phosphoric acid, 30s. 



" That a salary of 200/. a-year be paid to Professor Way for this 

 purpose, and that the Committee have further power to expend a sum 

 not exceeding 300/ a-year in such chemical inquiries for the Journal 

 as the Council shall yearly direct, on consideration of the report made 

 by the Chemical Committee." 



The Council have decided that the ensuing Country Meeting 

 of the Society, at the city of Norwich, shall be held in the week 

 commencing Monday the 16th of July, the Thursday, as for- 

 merly, being the principal day of the Show ; and they have the 

 satisfaction of reporting that, great as was the number of imple- 

 ments exhibited at the York Meeting of last year over the 

 entries on any former occasion, the number entered for ex- 

 hibition and trial at the ensuing Norwich Meeting exceeds that 

 amount by a very considerable number. They have received 

 from the principal railway companies throughout the kingdom a 

 grant of the same liberal concessions in favour of the Society's 

 exhibitors as was made by them last year, namely, the free con- 

 veyance of live stock, and a reduction of one-half the usual rates 

 of charge for implements, on proceeding to the Show, and with 

 similar concessions on returning from it, provided the animals or 

 implements are unsold and remain bond fide the property of the 

 respective exhibitors. The authorities of Norwich have granted 

 the free use of St. Andrew's Hall, fitted up at their own expense, 

 for the purposes of the Great Dinner of the Society, and of the 

 Council Dinner ; and Professor Simonds, and the Rev. Edwin 

 Sidney, have kindly consented to deliver Lectures before the 

 Members on the occasion of their meeting in that city — the 

 former, "On the Diseases of the Organs of Respiration, with 

 partrcular reference to Pleuro -Pneumonia, in the Ox the latter, 



