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" 7. To take measures to improve the education of those who depend 
upon the cultivation of the soil for their support. 
"8. To take measures for improving the veterinary art aa applied to 
cattle, sheep, and pigs. 
"9. At the Meetiugs of the Society in the country, by the distribution of 
prizes and by other means, to encourage the best mode of farm cultivation 
and the breed of live-stock. 
" 10. To promote the comfort and welfare of labourers, and to encourage 
the improved management of their cottages and gardens."' 
At the third and fourth meetings of the Committee (on 
May 11 and 1G) Lord Spencer was again at his post, various 
matters of detail were disposed of, and it was decided that 
thenceforth the Committee should meet every "Wednesday at 
the same place. Amongst other matters brought before these 
early Meetings we find that on June 13 two letters addressed 
to Lord Spencer were read, in which the writer (Mr. Horn, 
of Carrondale, near Falkirk) proposed to lay before the Com- 
mittee a plan of a machine for ploughing by steam, in order 
that they might report thereon, and offered to indemnify the 
Society against the cost of an experimental trial to the extent 
of 100?. On the 20th a letter was read from the Highland 
Society, welcoming the formation of the new Society, and ex- 
pressing a desire for reciprocal information on matters of in- 
terest. 
On June 26 the Committee recommended that the first 
country meeting should be held at Oxford on Wednesday, 
July 17, 1839; and the Duke of Wellington, Duke of New- 
castle, Duke of Bedford, Marquis of Exeter, Earl Fitzwilliam, 
Earl of Chichester, Earl Talbot, Lord Portman, Lord Worsley, 
M.P., Lord Moreton (afterwards the Earl of Ducie), Sir Thomas 
Sherlock Gooch, Bart., and Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., were 
nominated as Vice-Presideuts of the Society. Two of these 
(the Duke of Newcastle and the Duke of Bedford) declined the 
honour, and their places were subsequently filled by the ap- 
pointment of the Duke of Northumberland and the Duke of 
Buckingham. The nomination of gentlemen to form the Com- 
mittee of Management took place at the same meeting, and 
after some slight adjustment the list was completed as follows, 
the first being the only name which still retains its honoured 
position among the chief officers of the Society : — 
Acland, Thos. Dyke, M.P. I Cayley, Kdwd. S., M.P. j Estcourt, T. H. S. B., M.P. 
Benett, John, M.P. Challoner, Colonel. | Euston, Earl of, M.P, 
Barker, T. Raymond. Chapman, Thomas. j Flounders, Benj. 
Blanchard, Henry. Childers, John W., M.P. , Hall, Geo. Webb. 
Boys, Henry. Curtis, Edw. B. \ Hayter, Wm. G., M.P. 
Buller, T. Wentworth. j Eliot, Lord. | Heathcote, John, M.P. 
Duller, Edward, M.P. 1 Ellman, John. j Heneage, Geo. F., M.P. 
Burke, French. i Ellman, Thotras. I Hillyard, 0. 
