NOTICE. 
This being the first Number of the Journal which has not had 
the benefit of Mr. Pusey's active superintendence, the Journal 
Committee cannot send it forth without expressing their deep 
regret at the severe and protracted illness which still deprives 
hem of his valuable assistance. They are also desirous of 
recording their high sense of the important services which, in his 
threefold capacity of Chairman of the Committee, Editor, and 
Author, he has conferred upon the Society and the country at 
large. From the very commencement of the Society the labours 
of the other members of the Committee have been comparatively 
light, and it is right that the members of the Society should 
know to whom they are chiefly indebted for the success which 
has been achieved, for the reputation which the Society's pub- 
lications enjoy in this and other countries. In their endea- 
vours to maintain for the future the high standard of utility 
and interest already established, the Committee wish to avail 
themselves of the active co-operation of the large body of prac- 
tical and scientific men who compose the Society, Spread as 
they are over the whole surface of the British Islands, nor even 
confined to them, they possess singular advantages for the col- 
lection of information based upon observation and experiment. 
The Journal Committee therefore earnestly invite attention to 
the following Resolution, which formed part of their last Report 
to the Council, viz. : — 
" That in future, under the head of ' Miscellaneous Communi- 
cations,' a portion of the Journal be allotted to short papers from 
such members of the Society as may favour the Committee with 
an account of any matter of special interest which has come under 
their notice in the management of their farms, or in their imme- 
diate neighbourhood." 
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