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Mr. Wilson said he was sure the resolution he had to 

 propose would meet with the cordial concurrence of the 

 meeting. He begged to move — 



That Professor Liebig of Giessen, Professor Daubeney of 

 Oxford, and Dr. Lyon Playfair, be elected Honorary Members 

 of the Society. 



James Hamerton, Esq. seconded the resolution, which 

 was carried unanimously. 



The following Paper was then read ;— 



ON THE FAILURE OF THE RED AND WHITE CLOVER UPON 



CERTAIN SOILS. BY THE REV. W. THORP, OF WOMERS- 



LEY VICARAGE. 



In the former paper read before our joint meeting with 

 the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, I had the opportunity of 

 applying to a local district near the river Humber those 

 grand principles of the connection between agriculture and 

 chemistry, discovered by the illustrious Professor Liebig. 

 To him agriculture will ever owe a lasting debt of gratitude 

 for the only rational system of its principles yet discovered, 

 founded upon a chemical knowledge of the substances which 

 plants extract from the soil, and likewise of those returned 

 to the soil in the form of manure. To him we owe the 

 knowledge of the sources whence vegetables obtain th^ir 

 nourishment, — why a method of cultivation may succeed on 

 one farm and be inapplicable to another, — why a manure may 

 produce great crops one year, and lose its fertilising influence 

 in another ; — in what manner a number of earthy and saline 

 ingredients exert their influence in the vegetable organism; — 

 that to have a vigorous vegetation, plants in the early period 

 of their growth must be supplied with a due quantity of 

 food; — that nitrogen, one of the most valuable elements. 



