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of the double silicates, on ^yllicll lie believes the absorptive power 

 of certain soils for manure to depend; and on his analytical 

 results of investigations into the comparative nutritive value of 

 natural and artificial grasses and weeds. 2. Professor Simonds's 

 report of experiments made in this country, by direction of the 

 Society, on animals affected with pleuro-pneumonia, and in 

 which, by inoculation, according to foreign practice, with a 

 morbid fluid taken from diseased lungs, the pow^erful counter- 

 irritation of gangrenous inflammation to a certain extent in the 

 system, rather than the production of pleuro-pneumonia itself, 

 appears under certain conditions either to have subdued the 

 ordinary symptoms of that fatal malady, or to have been in many 

 cases the immediate cause of death. 3. ^.Ir. Lawes's continuation 

 of his valuable experiments on the feeding of animals. And, 

 4. Professor Wilson's Lecture before the Society, on the agri- 

 cultural and technical treatment of flax. 



The Gloucester Meeting will be held in the middle of July 

 next. The entries of Implements, as will be seen by the follow- 

 ing tabular statement, are more numerous than in former years, 

 the area engaged for their exhibition amounting to 105,000 

 square feet, and the shedding required being nearly a mile in 

 length : — 



Year of 

 Meeting, 



Locality. 



Entries of Implements. | 



1839 



Oxford .... 





1840 



Cambridge . 

 Lirerpool 



36 



1841 



312 



1842 



Bristol .... 



455 



1843 



Derby .... 



508 



1844 



Southampton 



948 



1845 



Shrewsbury . 



942 



1846 



Newcastle 



735 



1847 



Northampton 



1321 



1848 



York 



1508 



1849 



Nonvich .... 



1882 



1850 



Exeter .... 



1223 



18^1 



Windsor .... 



Xo exMbition of Implements. ! 



1852 



LeTres .... 



1897 



1853 



Gloucester . 



2032 



The entries for Live Stock vdll not close until the 1st of June, 



