Monthly Council, March 7 , 1894 . 
and were recommended for payment. 
The Secretary had submitted to the 
Committee the balance-sheet for 
1893, which had been ordered to be 
laid before the Auditors (see pp. xii. 
and xiii.). The Secretary had also sub- 
mitted a statement of the amounts 
paid out of the Society’s funds in con- 
nexion with the preliminary expenses 
for the acquisition of Harewood House, 
and the Committee recommended that 
the total amount — 1,429Z. 2s. Gtl . — be 
debited to the ordinary Income and 
Expenditure Account of the Society 
for 1890. 
House. 
Sir Nigel Kingscote (Chairman) 
reported various recommendations 
from this Committee as to the re- 
decoration and furnishing of Hare- 
wood House. A letter had been re- 
ceived from the Shire Horse Society 
accepting the Society's offer to make 
over to them the lease of No. 12 
Hanover Square, and the Committee 
recommended that the details of the 
transfer be left in the hands of a 
Sub-Committee, to consist of Sir 
Nigel ’Kingscote, Sir Matthew Rid- 
ley, and the Secretary, with authority 
to confer with the Sub-Committee 
appointed by the Shire Horse Society. 
Journal. 
Earl Cathcart (Chairman) re- 
ported the acceptance by Mr. Robert 
Bruce, of Darlington, of the appoint- 
ment as the Society’s Commissioner 
to visit and report upon the selected 
farms in the district of the Country 
Meeting of 1895. A letter had been 
received from the Cambridge and 
Counties Agricultural Education 
Committee, stating that the back 
numbers of the Society’s Journal had 
been purchased and bound, and ask- 
ing if the Council would place the 
Committee upon the Society’s free 
list for future numbers of the Jour- 
nal as issued. The Committee re- 
commended that this application be 
complied with. A letter had been 
read from the Society Nationale 
d’Agriculture de France, thanking 
the Society for the gift of the back 
numbers of its Journal, which had 
been forwarded to complete the set 
in the French Society’s Library. 
The Committee had the pleasure to 
report the following donations to the 
Society’s Library, and recommended 
that the best thanks of the Council 
be given to the donors : — 
Dr. Dickson’s “ Farmer's Companion ” 
(2 vols.), Loudon, 1813; “Farmer's Calen- 
dar” (5th edition), London, 1809 ; and 
George Johnson’s “ History of English Gar- 
dening,” London, 1829. — Presented by Mr. 
Charles Whitehead. 
Heinrich von Thiinen’s “Systems of Cul- 
ture. French translation by Jules Laver- 
ri'.Te. Paris, 1851. — Presented by Monsieur 
Jules Laver r iire. Librarian of the .Socle! i 
Nationale d' Agriculture de France. 
A complete set of the Memoirs of the 
Rothamsted Experiments (9 vols.).— Pre- 
sented by the Board of Agriculture. 
The Committee recommended that 
in future the address of the author be 
printed in small type at the foot of 
each article, in addition to the 
author’s signature. The Committee 
had discussed the final draft of the 
contents proposed for the next number 
of the Journal, and had given direc- 
tions to the Editor thereon. Proofs 
of the portrait of Robert Bakewell and 
of the illustration of Bakewell’s house 
had been submitted and approved. It 
was proposed that the next number 
should contain a short biographical 
notice by the Secretary of the late 
Sir Harry Yerney, the “ Father ” of 
the Society, accompanied by a wood- 
cut representing Sir Harry on horse- 
back (see p. 178). 
Earl Cathcart said that the 
Council were much indebted to the 
Board of Agriculture for a beautifully 
bound set of the complete Memoirs of 
the Rothamsted Experiments. It was 
a very graceful return for any services 
which the Society might have been 
able to render to the Board. 
Chemical. 
Viscount Emlyn (Chairman) re- 
ported, with regard to the experiments 
which had been undertaken at the 
Society’s Experimental Farm at 
Woburn as to the value of linseed oil 
as a food for cattle, that it had been 
found that the oil supplied in the 
form of cake provided a far better food 
for cattle than the oil used by itself 
Dr. Voelcker had reported that the 
number of samples sent to the Labor- 
atory during the last quarter had been 
3G8, as against 379 for a correspond- 
ing period in 1892-93. The experience 
of the last month in regard to the 
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