CONTENTS OF PART I, VOL. XV. 
ARTICLE PACE 
I. — On Tinnk Uraiiiago. V>y Jolin Algernon Clarke. Piizo 
Essay 1 
II. — On the Uselessncss of Bearing- Reins. By Viscount Dowue . 73 
III. — On the Hereditary Diseases of Cattle. By Finlay Dun, Jun., 
V. S., Lecturer on Materia Medica, &c., at the Edinburgh 
Veterinary College. Prize Essay 7G 
IV. — On Light Laud Farming. By Jolin Ilaston. Prize Essay . 88 
V. — On Finger and Toe in I!oot Crops. By James Buckman, 
F.G.S., F.L.S., Professor of Geology and Botany, Royal 
Agricultural College, Cirencester 125 
VI. — On the Use of Town Sewage as Manure. By J. Thomas Way, 
Consulting Chemist to the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England 1 35 
VII. — On the Species of .^£filo])s of the South of France, and their 
Transformation into Cultivated Wheat. By M. Esprit Fabre, 
of Agde. (Translated from the French.) 167 
VIII. — Description of Hollow Brick Roofs, as constructed on the 
Estate of Earl Grey, at Howick, &c., and as partly illus- 
trated in the accompanying Sketches. By Robert Dunn . 181 
IX. — Experiment with Nitrate of Soda and Guano on a Peat Bog. 
By James Dyce Nicol 185 
X. — On the Fainiing of Oxfordshire. By Clare Sewcll Picad. 
Prize Ilejiort 189 
APPENDIX. 
List of Officers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1853-1854 i 
Memoranda of Meetings, Privileges, and Payment of Subscription . . ii 
Report of the Council to the General Meeting, May 22, 1854 . . . . iii 
Balance-sheet of Half-yearly Account ending 31st December, 1853 . . viii 
Prizes for Essays and Reports in 1855 viii* 
List of Members of the Society : June, 1854 ix 
PLATES. 
Map of Herefordshire to face p. 433 of VoL XIV., Part II. 
Map of the River Nene 1 ^ 
Sectional Sketch of Upper \'alley of River NeneJ '^^^ 
Directions to Bikdee at back. 
