Present : The President and 19 members. The Rules for keeping a Stud Book were read and settled. The Stud-book Committee were directed to procure Stud-books from England and other places. Resolved that the Stud-book Committee be appointed at the next meeting in the same manner as the Herd book Committee was appointed, and that members be requested to come prepared with the names of seven gentlemen for election. Mr. Smythies gave notice that at the next meeting he would move for the appointment of an Agricultural Chemist to the Association. Mr. W. Buckland gave notice that at the next meet ing he would move for the introduction of guano from the Mercury Islands. Mr. Grigg postponed his motion, for an alteration in the rules to enable the Association to purchase landed property, until the next meeting. Mr. Albyn Martin, V.P., read the following p»per upon bone manure : — "Bones have been of late years very extensively used as manure. The advantage of this in distant and uncultivated spots, where the carriage of common stable or yard manure would have been too expensive, is incalculable. By means of bones large tracts of barren lands and heaths have been converted into fer tile fields. All those who have used bones extensively report that little difference can be observed between them ; some even give the preference to those from which the oil and glue have been extracted ; but oil and glue form excellent manures. How is this to be explained ? It appears, from the result of many ex periments, that bones do not furnish much nourishment to the roots of plants until they have undergone a cer tain degree of decomposition, The fat and gelatine being intimately blended with the bony matter, and contained in cavities or cells, may remain a long time in the earth without decomposition. As a proof of this it has been found that bones which had laid in the earth for many centuries, on spots where ancient bat tles were fought, afforded, on analysis, nearly as much gelatinous matter, by the abstraction of the earthy parts, as fresh bones would have done. It would seem that the great effect of bones, as a manure, must de pend on the phosphate of lime. 