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CONTENTS. 
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XIY. — Oil the Use of Home-grown Timber when prepared with a 
Solution of Lime. A Letter addressed to the Editor by 
Arthur Bailey Denton 208 
XV. — The Agricultural Returns of 1866 and 1867. By James 
Lewis 214 
APPENDIX. 
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List of Officers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1867 i 
Standing Committees for 1867 iii 
Report of the Council to the General Meeting, December 11, 1867 v 
Yearly Cash Account, from 1st January to December 31, 1867 .. ix 
Cash Accounts and Balance-sheets, from 1st July to Dec. 31, 1867 x 
Country Meeting Account, Bury St. Edmund's, 1867 xii 
Schedule of Prizes ; Leicester Meeting, 1868 xiii 
Essays and Reports. — Awards for 1867 , .. xxv 
Members' Chemical Analj'sis and Veterinary Privileges xxvi, xxvii 
Memoranda of Meetings, Payment of Subscription, &c xxviii 
DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER. 
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Maps of Westmorland 1 
Rainfall at Kendal to face page 10 
Temperature of the Sea in January „ 40 
Isothermals of the British Isles „ 55 
The Binder is desired to collect together all the Appendix matter, with Roman numeral folios, and 
place It at the end of each volume of the Journal, excepting Titles and Contents, and Statistics, 
&c„ which are in all cases to te placed at the beginning of the Volume : the lettering at the back to 
include a statement of the year as well as the volume; the first volume belonging to 1839-40, the 
tecond to 1841, the tliird to 1842, the fourth to 1843, and so on. 
In reprints of the Journal, all Appendix matter (and in one instance an Article in the body of 
the Journal), which at the time had become obsolete, were omitted ; the Eoinan numeral folios, 
however (for convenience of reference) were reprinted without alteration in the Appendix matter 
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