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CONTENTS. 
ABIICLE PAGE 
XII. — Eeport on the Clieesemaking Competition at I'leston. By 
Mrs. L. Nuttall and Mrs. E. Gibbons 333 
XIJI. — Quarterly Reports of the Chemical Committee, 1885 ., .. 336 
Additions to the Library in 1885 353 
APPENDIX. 
PAOB 
List of Officers of the Royal Agricnltural Society of England, 188G "i 
Standing Committees for 1886 iii 
Report of the Council to the General Meeting, December 10, 1885 v 
Distribution of Members and Coimcil xii 
Half-yearly Cash Account from 1st July to 31st December, 1885 xiv 
Yearly Cash Account from 1st January to 31st December, 1885 xvi 
Country Meeting Accoimt : Preston, 1885 xviii 
Agricultural Education : Examination Papers for Junior Scholar- ] 
ships, 1886 XX 
Memoranda of Meetings, Payment of Subscriptions, &c xxv 
Governors and Members' Chemical Privileges xxvi 
Guide to the Purchase of Artificial Manures and Feeding Stuffs . . xxvii 
Instructions for Selecting and Sending Samples for Analysis . . xxviii 
Members' Veterinary Privileges , xxix 
Members' Botanical and Entomological Privileges xxxi 
DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER. 
The Binder is desired to collect together all the Appendix matter, with Roman numeral folios, 
and place it at the end of each volume of the Journal, excepting Titles and Contents, and Statistics 
Sc., which are in all cases to be placed at the beginning of the Volume; the lettering at the back 
to include a statement of the year as well as the volume ; the first volume belonging to 1838-10, 
the second to 1841, the third to 1842, the fourth to 1843, and so on. 
In Reprints of the Journal all Appendix matter and, in one instance, an Article in the Ixxiy 
of the Journal ^wbich at ihe time had become obsolete), were omitted ; the Roman numeral foUob. 
however (for convenience of reference), were reprinted without alteration in the Appendix matter 
retained. 
ERRATA. 
In the paper in the last number of the ' Journal ' (Vol. XXI. s.s., Part 2, ISS.")) 
—"On the Valuation of Unexhausted Manures," by Sir J. B. Lawes and 
Dr. Gilbert — the following corrections should be made :— 
Table 11. p. 601, No. ."), " Undecorticated Cotton-cake " :— 
liast column but one — instead of 5s. lid., read 9s. 'Sd. 
I.ast column — instead of £3 5s. 4d., read £3 80. 8d. * 
Table III. p. 006, No. 0, " Undecorticated Cotton-cake " : — 
d. 1 
£ X. 
d. 1 £ 
x. 
d. 1 s. 
d. 1 d. 1 
d. I ,«. 
d. j 
1 ''■ 1 
1 
1 
1 12 
8 1 1 
1 
10 1 14 
G 1 9 8 1 
0 6 1 4 
4 
1 2 10 
1 11 
1 4 
14 
Read — 
s 8 1 
1 M 
I 1 1 
2 
11 1 15 
3 1 10 2 1 
6 10 1 4 
61 
|3 0| 
|2 0 
|4 
I'J 
0 
Also — 
Page 641, to the signatures of the Judges of Thoroughbreds and Hunters, add 
" Coventry." 
P.ige 644, line 50, for '• I consider the prize-winner," read " I consider the 
prize-winners." 
Page 742, lines 11-13, the young man who slipped on one of the barriers, is 
Btatcfl to have recovered from his injuries, and did not die in the Preston Royal 
Infirmary, as reported. 
