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and, on tbek report, the Council have resolved that the substi- 
tute proposed is not entitled to the Prize. 
Since the last General Meeting Professor Simonds has delivered 
a lecture on the Physiology of Milk-Secretion, and Professor 
Way a lecture on the Value of Fish as Manure. Professor Way- 
is also actively engaged, as the Consulting-Chemist of the 
Society, in prosecuting important researches under the direction 
of the Chemical Committee. 
The Council, in conclusion, have every reason to congratulate 
the Members on the high position which the Society con- 
tinues to maintain, and on the success with which its opera- 
tions for promoting improvement in every branch of husbandry 
continue to be attended. They feel the responsibility which so 
great a power as the Society- now possesses places in their hands, 
and entertain an anxious desire accordingly to render its opera- 
tions sound and practical, at the same time that they are pro- 
gressive. They confidently anticipate, from the union of prac- 
tice Avith science, not only still further immediate results in the 
improvement of practical details, but the eventual discovery of 
those general principles, and their just application, without 
which Agriculture cannot be expected to attain the rank of a 
scientific pursuit, but must remain, with its full resources unde- 
veloped and its powers restricted, a mere mechanical art, hedged 
in by routine, guided by guesswork, and capable only of slow and 
doubtful extension. 
By order of the Council, 
JAMES HUDSON, 
Secretary. 
