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THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY’S 
and what the application of various manures, the analyses of 
soils and vegetables, but a branch of chemistry 1 He appre- 
ciated to the full the value and importance of meetings such as 
these, which helped to remove all those feelings of petty jealousy 
which invariably existed in local districts, and excited a general 
and zealous desire to promote the welfare of the common cause by 
individual exertion. It had been well observed, that he was 
one of the greatest benefactors of his country who made two ears 
of com grow where only one had grown before. He could not 
but feel that the Royal Agricultural Society of England was in 
some degree indebted for its origin to that Society over which 
he had the honour to preside; for if it had not been for the stimu- 
lus and example given to it by that and other scientific societies, 
it never would have arisen. If there had been no other geolo- 
gists to encourage and appreciate his exertions, they would have 
had no Professor Buckland ; and, but for similar examples, no 
Professor Owen in surgery, no Professor Playfair in chemistry. 
His Lordship concluded by wishing prosperity to the Royal Agri- 
cultural Society of England. 
The Chairman felt in duty bound to congratulate the Society 
upon the noble show of implements of husbandry they had seen 
that day. He would venture to assert that, in the whole civilized 
world, there never before had been seen such an exhibition. Such 
a show of implements of exquisite workmanship, of wonderful in- 
genuity, and at remarkably low prices, was especially deserving 
of the notice and approbation of the agricultural world : and it 
was not a small degree of gratification to know that this fine dis- 
play of implements had been exhibited in a manufacturing town 
like Derby, where they were so well able to appreciate their con- 
struction and advantages. It opened to them all a field of ad- 
vantage never before known or properly understood in this coun- 
try. It formed, as it were, a connecting link between those two 
great classes of the community ; a fact so evident in itself, that it 
conveyed at once the idea of an union between them. He had 
heard it, however, remarked, that it was an exhibition fearful to 
the heart, and to the welfare of the labouring population. He 
believed, however, that, so far from this being the case, the oppo- 
site was the fact ; for the improvement and progress of one fur- 
