Report  to  the  General  Meeting. 
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Country  Meetings  of  the  ensuing  four  years,  and  have  agreed  to 
the  following  rotation: — 
1851,  Mid  diet  ex  District,  consisting  of  the  county  of  Middlesex. 
1852,  South-Eastern  District , comprising  the  counties  of  Kent, 
Surrey,  and  Sussex. 
1853,  South-  If  ales  District , comprising  the  whole  of  South  Wales, 
with  the  addition  of  the  counties  of  Gloucester,  Hereford, 
Monmouth,  and  Worcester. 
1854,  East- Midland  District , comprising  the  counties  of  Leicester, 
Lincoln,  Nottingham,  and  Rutland. 
The  Council  trust  that,  as  so  large  a portion  of  the  Country 
Members  of  the  Society,  from  every  part  of  the  kingdom,  will 
probably  visit  London  next  year,  the  circumstance  of  the  Society's 
Show  of  Cnttle  being  held  in  Iljdc  Park  will  meet  the  wishes  of 
a great  majority  of  its  hotly,  and  promote  the  general  objects  of 
the  whole;  while  the  postponement  of  the  Society's  accustomed 
Country  Show  for  one  year,  in  the  pre-arranged  rotation  of  dis- 
tricts, will  prevent  any  failure  that  might  probably  occur  in 
holding  it  at  a time  when  another  Exhibition  will  be  drawing 
public  attention,  in  nn  especial  manner,  to  the  Metropolis. 
The  Council  have  received  from  the  Chemical  Committee  the 
Annual  Report  of  Professor  Way,  the  Consulting  Chemist  to  the 
Society,  on  the  satisfactory  progress  of  the  chemical  investigations 
in  his  laboratory,  of  which  the  results  will  be  published  in  the 
Society's  Journal  ; and  on  the  great  increase,  within  the  last 
quarter,  of  chemical  analyses  required  for  agricultural  purposes 
by  Members  of  the  Society.  The  Council  have  adopted,  on  the 
recommendation  of  that  Committee,  the  following  subjects  for 
investigation  during  the  ensuing  twelve  months: — 
1.  The  continuation  of  the  investigation  into  the  alworptive  pro- 
perties of  soils,  including  clays. 
2.  The  nutritive  properties  of  the  grasses. 
3.  The  agricultural  properties  of  the  chalks  and  marls. 
4.  The  chemical  properties  of  water,  with  a view  to  its  effects  on 
irrigation,  ami  on  the  health  of  animals. 
The  Members  have  already  been  favoured  by  Professor  Way 
with  three  very  interesting  lectures  during  the  present  year:  the 
first,  on  Guano,  and  on  that  extensive  adulteration  at  present 
