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Report to the General Meeting. 
The mode of pitting and preserving potatoes in ordinary seasons, with 
the principles upon which any improved plan may be founded. 
II. Prize of 2Ql. for the second best Essay on the same subject. 
III. Prize of 30/. for the best history of the disease at the present 
time aflfecting the potato ; involving a condensed detail of facts deve- 
loped by experiments. 
Competitors for this prize will be required to furnish information on 
the following points : — 
The j-ear in which the disease first appeared in this or other countries. 
The history of the disease in the potato in the United Kingdom, 
and in other parts of the world, with particular reference to authentic 
returns regarding any peculiarity of season or seasonal variations. 
On the methods for retarding the disease. 
On the methods proposed for extracting the nutritive ingredients of 
diseased potatoes. 
Dr. Lyon Playfair, the consulting chemist to the Society, having 
kindly consented to deliver two Lectures on the Potato Disease 
before the members, on the occasion of their present General 
Meeting, the Council, at the suggestion of the Journal Committee, 
directed all papers on that subject to be submitted to Dr. Play- 
fair's inspection previously to their future consideration by that 
Committee ; and the Royal Institution of Great Britain having 
liberally placed their Theatre at the disposal of the Council for 
the delivery of these Lectures, the President, in the name of the 
Council and on behalf of the Society, has expressed to Dr. Lyon 
Playfair his best thanks for the important practical Lectures deli- 
vered to the members on that occasion ; and to the Managers of 
the Royal Institution of Great Britain his best thanks for the favour 
they have shown to the Society, by the courtesy and liberality of 
the grant of their Theatre, and their cordial co-operation in thus 
aiding the Society in the prosecution of its objects of public utility. 
The Journal Committee, since the last General Meeting, have> 
reported the following awards of Prizes for Essays : — 
Mr. Owen Owen Roberts, of Bangor, North Wales ; Lord Kenyon's 
Prize of 20/. for the best Essay on Gorse as the food of Cattle, 
Horses, and Sheep. 
Mr. John Roals, of Brendon Farm, Wivcliscombe, Somersetshire; the 
Society's Prize of 20/. for the best Essay (ni Catch-Meadows. 
