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chinery of business is at work, and its good effects conspicuously 
felt through every channel of the insular trade. 
We close this Report with the following tabular statement of 
exports, taken from published returns, of several preceding years, 
commencing with 1807, when potatoes were first exported : — 
Years. 
Tons. 
Years. 
Tons. 
1807 
600 
1845 
3822 
1808 
1407 
1846 
5461 
1809 
849 
1847 
6428 
1810 
1362i 
1848 
5990 
1811 
1400? 
1849 
4992 
1823 
3689 
1851 
5662 
1824 
5747i 
1852 
3354 
1825 
5836 
1853 
3776 
1826 
2558^ 
1854 
4330 
1828 
8364 
1855 
4197 
1829 
3963 
1856 
7236i 
1830 
9289 
1857 
4960 
1831 
2986 
1858 
3093 
1832 
5436 
1859 
2211 
1833 
1859 
1860 
2677 
1835 
1396 
1861 
2969 
1836 
3701 
1 862 
2803 
1837 
.. 10,951 
1863 
3908 
1838 
.. 12,032 
1864 
6705 
1839 
14,041 
1865 
3216 
1840 
.. 17,648 
1866 
4080 
1842 
.. 18,560 
1867 
6251 
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VI. — Report of the Consulting Chemist for 1869. 
The duties of the chemical officer of the Society are of a twofold 
character. They are connected, in the first place, with the ana- 
lytical work referred to him by individual members of the Society ; 
and, secondly, they embrace special experiments and researches 
with which the consulting chemist is charged by the Chemical 
Committee of the Royal Agricultural Society. 
With regard to the first division of my duties, I have the satis- 
faction of reporting that during the past season the members 
of the Society availed themselves of the privilege of obtaining 
analytical reports at the Society's fixed low rate of charges more 
frequently than in any preceding year. 
A considerable increase in the number of analyses took place 
in 1868, being then larger than the total number of analyses 
recorded in any previous year, and exceeding that of 1867 by 91. 
In 1869 again the analytical work increased, and as many as 465 
analyses were made for members of the Society. The appended 
summary shows that this increase is chiefly due to the larger 
