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the part of the Vorkshire Agricultural Society, and that of the 
Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City, in a subscription of 
ijOOOZ. towards the purposes of the Meeting, will enable the 
Council to make arrangements for the Meeting of 1848 on a 
scale of undiminished extent ; and they have already decided on 
the Prizes to be offered out of the funds of the Society for stock 
and implements on that occasion. 
The Council have unanimously appointed Professor Way, the 
author of papers in the Journal, on the Analysis of the Ashes of 
Plants, to be the Consulting Chemist of the Society, in the place 
of Dr. Lyon Playfair, whose increasing engagements prevent him 
from devoting to the office that amount of time and attention 
which he conceives its important duties to require. The Council 
have had the pleasing duty of conveying to Dr. Lyon Playfair 
their acknowledgments of the services he has rendered to the 
Society, and their satisfaction of finding from him, that, as one of 
their Honorary Members, he will still have it in his power to 
promote the objects of the Society, as occasions from time to time 
arise. 
At the request of Professor Way, the Council have invited 
their Members to supply him with certain specimens of Grain, 
in order that he may obtain analyses of average specimens of par- 
ticular districts, as well as of the whole country ; an invitation to 
which the Members have most kindly attended. 
The Council have to express to Professor Way, and to Pro- 
fessor Simonds, Lecturer on Cattle Pathology in the Royal 
Veterinary College, their best thanks for the Lectures they kindly 
consented at a short notice to deliver before the Members on the 
occasion of their present General Meeting. 
In conclusion, the Council congratulate the Members on the 
great amount of good conferred by the Society, directly as well 
as indirectly, on the agriculture of the country, both in pointing 
out improved modes of culture and management, and in proving 
in many instances a safeguard against the delusion and error 
arising from untried theories or unsound practice. The first 
successful evidence of the value of the Society's operations has 
