The author was engaged by the Agricultural Society of Scotland to give stated lectures on agricultural chemistry for several successive years. The success was as large as may be expected from the subject, and the connection of the two sciences has been illustrated probably as far as modern knowledge will allow. That it has fallen short of any valuable practical application does not argue that none will be reached, when a more intimate field has been opened, and a closer inquiry afforded.

CCCCLXXI.-RANSOME, 1843.

James Allen Ransome, of the firm of Ransome and Co., iron-foundry, Ipswich, has written "The implements of agriculture;" London, 8vo., 1843. This work is worthy of the long-established celebrity enjoyed by the above firm as makers of agricultural implements; it has no equal in the agricultural world, and outstrips all works of the kind in the arrangement of the implements, delineation, descriptions, and practical character. The author's remarks are very valuable. It may be remarked as curious that carts and waggons are not mentioned as agricultural implements; the book does not comprehend them.

CCCCLXXII-HUNTER, 1843.

bon to be a compound body made by plants, and decomposed by putrefaction;" London, 1844, 8vo. The author fills 204 pages with very learned dissertations, but arrives at no practical result, even if carbon be composed and destroyed as is represented.

CCCCLXXV.– HANNAM, 1844,

John Hannam has published "The economy of waste manures; a treatise on the nature and use of neglected fertilizers ;" London, 1844, 12mo. The treatise is valuable, and the author is known as the writer of several prize essays.

CCCCLXXVI-BURKE, 1844.

J. F. Burke has written "Farming for ladies; or, a guide to the poultry yard, the dairy, and the piggery;" 12mo., London, 1844. "The muck manual,"

British husbandry;" 2 vols., which were published in monthly numbers by the Society for the Diffasion of Useful Knowledge. It is a very useful work, showing and recommending the most approved practices upon incontestible grounds of preference. The two small works above-mentioned are very concise channels of agreeable intelligence. The author is noted in the profession of agriculture.

CCCCLXXVII-MILBURN, 1845.

M. M. Milburn, land-agent, near Thirsk, York

London and York, 1845. "The cow, with the dairy and breeding cattle;" 12mo., London, 1851.

CCCCLXXIII-HUTCHINSON, 1844.

Henry Hutchinson, land-agent, valuer, and professor of draining, Walcot, near Stamford, has written "A treatise on the practical drainage of land;" London, 1844, 8vo. The work contains 207 pages, with diagrams of drained lands on the shallow and deep systems, as practised by the author. The contents show a very sound professional knowledge, with a correct judgment on the practical subject. No superior work has appeared on the draining of lands on the improved system of frequent cavities, in order to render effectual the performance of drying the ground.

CCCCLXXIV.-RIGG, 1844.

Robert Rigg, F.R.S., has written "Experimental researches, chemical and agricultural, showing car

Sheep, breeds and management;" 12mo, London, 1852. These works are to be noted for sound sense, and very judicious statements. The practical information is of the highest order, and free of any affectation beyond the necessary scientific reference. Practice is never cast behind in order to follow a new path that is not yet opeh, and but barely accessible.

CCCCLXXVIII-WILLIAMS, 1845.

E. Leader Williams, C.E., acting engineer to the Severn Company, has written "On land-draining and irrigation; and on the application of drainage water as a motive power to machinery for agricultural purposes;" price 1s. 6d. This small work is very true on the subject.

CCCCLXXIX.-WILLOUGHBY D'ERESBY, 1845. Lord Willoughby D'Eresby has written "On ploughing by steam;" price 2s. 6d. Perseverance continues the attempts to reach the point of ploughing by steam; but like plough-draining and machine-reaping of grain, ploughing in the dif ferent forms may require a more manageable agent than condensed steam let loose from control,

CCCCLXXX.-TRIMMER, 1845. Joshua Trimmer, F.G.S., has written " Practical geology and mineralogy;" London, 8vo. "Practical chemistry for farmers and land-owners;" London, 12mo. "On the improvement of land as an investment for capital;" London, 1847, 8vo., price 18. And, along with Mr. Morton, "An attempt to estimate the effects of protecting duties on the profits of agriculture;" price 2s., and supplement 1s. The author is known as an able practical geologist, and a person of very sound views on other subjects. Though no doubt can exist of the improvement of land as an investment of capital, yet there must be a combination of favourable circumstances which have passed away from existence, under which were effected the large improvements quoted by the author.

CCCCLXXXI.-MARTIN, 1845.

W. C. L. Martin has written "Our domestic fowls," ‚”“The history of the horse,” and “Treatise on the ox." These treatises are very valuable; probably the natural history learning of the author predominates over the practical utility.

CCCCLXXXII.-ROBERTS, 1845.

Owen Owen Roberts has written "Observations on thorough drainage, as the basis of agricultural prosperity;" London, 1845, 12mo. The author reasons well, and argues stoutly in favour of close draining and subsoil ploughing. The two pamphlets by the author, on the corn laws and agricultural economy, are not practical notices.

CCCCLXXXIII.-MECHI, 1845.

J. Mechi has compiled a thin quarto volume of letters on agricultural subjects, chiefly relating to drainage of clay lands. The author is an amateur cultivator of the soil, and has attracted much observation. His ideas show too much adhesion to one locality; and though they are not sheer idle fancies, the general application may be doubted. Such persons are useful in any art.

CCCCLXXXIV.-DICKSON, 1846.

James Hill Dickson has written "A series of letters on the improved mode of the cultivation and management of flax;" London, 1846, 8vo. The intelligence is very sound, and correctly estimated.

CCCCLXXXV.-ROBERTS, 1846.

G. Roberts has written "A catechism of agriculture, by question and answer, on the most approved modes of cultivating the earth." The work is one of Pinnock's catechisms, and bound in a volume of these collections. It should have had

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an earlier date, but the work did not catch our notice sooner. The extent of it is too small to contain the circle of agriculture, even in a contracted form.

CCCCLXXXVI.-FALKNER, 1846.

F. Falkner, Esq., has written "The muck manual, for the use of farmers; a practical treatise on the chemical properties, management, and application of manures;" London, 1846, pp. 318, sewed, 5s. This is a very neat and comprehensive work, and a most creditable performance.

CCCCLXXXVII.- BACON, 1846.

R. N. Bacon has written "Prize essay on the agriculture of Norfolk ;" 8vo., price 10s. 6d. This work is much esteemed, and contains the sentiments of a sound practical judge, and of an enlightened writer.

CCCCLXXXVIII.-PASSY, 1846.

H. Passy has written "Essay on large and small farms;" 12mo. This essay has never got into any notice.

CCCCLXXXIX.-EYTON, 1846.

T. C. Eyton, Esq., has written "The handbook of Hereford cattle;" in two vols., 8vo. The work contains the list, pedigrees, and portraits of the most celebrated bulls of that breed, and the prices at which many of them were sold. It is a very entertaining book to those connected with Hereford

cattle.

CCCCXC.-TOPHAM, 1846.

John Topham, MA., rector of St. Andrew, Droitwich, has written " Chemistry made easy, for the use of agriculturists;" London, stitched, 16mo.

The knowledge of chemistry is undoubted; the application of it in the field of agricultural practice yet remains to be found.

CCCCXCI.-ANTISELL, 1846.

Thomas Antisell has written "A manual of agricultural chemistry;" 12mo., sewed, price 2s. "Irish geology;" 18mo., price 6d., sewed; in a series of chapters containing an outline of the science of geology, and a description of the various rocks distributed on the surface of the island, with some remarks on the climate. These little works are worth notice.

CCCCXCII.-JONES, 1847.

David F. Jones has written "Turnip husbandry ; a series of papers on the culture and application of that important root, with a preface by Professor Johnston of Durham. The author describes most correctly the most approved cultivation and use of the turnip plant.