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Additions to the Library. 
I have also advised members of the Society as to parasitic and 
root-diseases attacking cultivated plants, the weeds and foreign 
plants occurring in pastures, and other subjects submitted to 
me. But nothing of sufficient novelty or interest has in this 
way been brought before me during the past year deserving of 
special notice. 
I have had submitted to me samples of grass and other 
seeds to examine for their freedom from weeds, and to test as 
to their germinating power. In several cases I have prevented 
members of the Societv from makins: more or less worthless' 
purchases, and my report as to dead clover-seed in samples 
offered by a firm of seed-merchants has had a very satisfactory 
effect on the dealer. 
(Signed) W. Caeeuthers, F.R.S. 
ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY IN 1874. 
I.— PEKIODICALS PEESENTED TO THE SOCIETY'S 
LIBEAKY. 
Presented the respective Societies and Editors. 
A. — English, American, and Coloxial Periodicals. 
Agricultural Economist. Vol. V. 1874. 
Gazette. Nos. 1-52. 1874. 
American Agriculturist. Vol. XXXIII. 1874. 
Institute, Transactions of the. 1870-2. 
Athenaeum (Journal). Kos. 2410-24GI. 1874. 
Bath and West of England Society, Journal of the. Vol. VI. 1874. 
Barbadoes, Eeport upon the Eainfall of. 1874. 
Bell's Weekly Messenger. Nos. 4021-i072. 1874, 
Bristol Mercury. Vol. LXXXV. 1874. 
Bussey Institution, Bulletin of the. Parts I. and II. 1872. 
Chamber of Agriculture Journal. Vol. X. 1874. * 
Connecticut Board of Agriculture, Fifth and Sixth Annual Reports of the 
Secretary of. 1871-3. 
Country Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. XI. 1874. 
Economist. Vol. XXXII. 1874. 
Essex Standard. Vol. XLIV. 1874. 
Farmer. Vols. XXII. and XXIII. 1874. 
Farmer's Herald. Vol. XXI. 1874. 
Field. Vols. XLIII. and XLIV. 1874. 
Geological Society, Journal of the. Vol. XXX. Kos. 117-120, 1874.- 
Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Transactions of the. Vol. Y1. 
1374. 
