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LETTER 
TO 
LORD SOMERVILLE. 
MY LORD, 
W" E take the liberty of addressing your 
Lordship, as late President, and now a very 
a6five member of the Board of x'\griciilture, 
on the behalf of ourselves and a very large 
portion of the inhabitants of the Island of 
Great Britain, to request you will conde- 
scend to inform us (as we understand the 
institution of that Board is a matter of public 
concern) of the nature and extent of the 
' duties owed by your Lordship and the other 
members of the Board to the public ; and, 
on the other hand, what co-operation you 
look for from the people of this country. At 
present, my Lord, we are totally in the dark 
