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 PARRY. 299 of 50/. The Report of the Board, through their secretary, Arthur Young, is as follows: — "The author divides his memoir into two parts ; the first contains an historical and descriptive account of Spanish sheep, and their establishment in the va- rious countries to which they have been sent. (This is the most interesting and complete ac- count I have met with. — A. Y.") The second part contains the history of his own flock and practice, and includes in it the whole business of breeding, food, management, wool, carcass, sale, and distempers, with observations on the means of spreading the race. It is a most able and highly satisfactory production, and will do honour to the author who composed it, and to the Board, if they shall publish it. — A. Y. On the 28th of November, 1808, the following resolution was adopted by the Farming Society of Ireland — " Resolved, that Caleb Hillier Parry, M. D., F. R. S., be, and he is hereby elected, an honorary member of this society, in testimony of our respect for the author of the useful and inge- nious Essay on the Nature, Produce, Origin, and Extension of the Merino Breed of Sheep." Dr. Parry took particular delight in horticulture ; and very voluminous MSS. indicate the minute attention which he paid to the varieties and im- provement of fruit-trees, and to every other subject connected with the cultivation and management of a garden. It has been truly said, that, for many years, Dr. Parry was more allied to the public by the variety of his other accomplishments and pursuits, than by those of his immediate profession. It