Agricultural Societies. 273 
not a word has been breathed of associations of this kind, except 
a few political essays, as its reports were termed at the time, not a 
record even is left of its former existence. 
Such is the history and such the end of the precursors 
of the present Royal Agricultural and Commercial 
Society, whose career must be left for treatment in a 
future number. 
{To be continued.) 
MM 
