X Report to the General Meeting. 
Botanist received so few samples, that their number was not 
worth recording ; but last year he received 508, and this jear the 
number is 701. A similar expansion during the short period 
that her department has been organized has been reported from 
time to time by Miss Ormerod, 
The Council desire to call the attention of Members of the 
Society to the Paper in the current number of the ' Journal,' by 
Sir J. B. Lawes and Dr. Gilbert, on the Continuous Growth of 
Wheat on the Experimental Plots at Rothamsted during the past 
twenty years, being a continuation of their Paper published in 
1864, giving the results of continuous wheat-growing on the 
same plots during the previous twenty years. The conclusions 
drawn from the results of these experiments cannot fail to be 
of great practical value in their applicability to ordinary 
courses of farming. 
The late Dr. Voelcker contributed to the current number of 
the ' Journal ' a Paper on the Chemistry of Ensilage : and as the 
Duke of Bedford liberally erected five Silos at Woburn for 
experiments to be carried out under his superintendence, the 
Council still hope that our knowledge of the principles to be 
observed in making Silage will soon be more definite than it is 
at present. The President of the Society has offered a Prize of 
one hundred guineas for the best Silo in England or Wales 
in actual work during the winter of 1885-86. The conditions 
of this competition will be fixed by the Council, and will be 
-announced as soon as possible. 
The Centenary Meeting of the Highland and Agricultural 
Society of Scotland was held this year at Edinburgh ; and at the 
invitation of the Directors, the President, Mr. Dent, and Mr. 
Wells, with the Secretary, attended as representatives of this 
Society. The Council have expressed to the Directors of the 
Highland Society their appreciation of the invitation, and of the 
kindly welcome given to their President and representatives, and 
have heartily congratulated them on the very successful celebra- 
tion of their hundredth anniversary. 
